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Cartoon Characters a Cheaper Alternative to Celebrities
Mobile handset maker Nokia India Pvt. Ltd has hired a nerd to endorse its E-series office handsets, online. He may not score in the dating department, but Dilbert—the main character from the eponymous comic strip syndicated to hundreds of newspapers around the world—can tell you a thing or two about the workspace. The use of comic-strip characters [...]
Continue reading...Squidoo Lens on Producing a Cartoon Series
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I have previously written an article called “8 Steps to Producing a Cartoon Series” which later sparked off a lot of questions. Most of my answers were made as comments and is becoming a tad untidy. To keep things coherent and easy to read, I’ve consolidated all the articles and Q&A on the topic of [...]
Continue reading...Peanuts on Itunes
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
In a batch of 20 new webisodes, Charlie Brown and the gang have been brought back to animated life, much in the style of their classic holiday TV specials. But Lucy, Snoopy and others have been remade for the Web in 3- to 4-minute videos taken directly from classic 1964 comic strips. In one of them, [...]
Continue reading...Cartoon Characters Under Fire for Promoting Unhealthy Food
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Tony the Tiger and the Dairylea Cow have come under fire for failing to promote healthy eating in children, a consumer group has said. A report by Which? has accused few of the 19 cartoon characters in supermarkets for not marketing healthy food - and therefore, fueling childhood obesity. Kraft’s Moo, the Dairylea Cow, was the worst [...]
Continue reading...Man Petitions to Marry Anime Cartoon Character!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Talk about crazy news! A man in Japan has launched a campaign in Japan to legally allow comic book-loving humans to marry their favourite fictitious characters! More than 1,000 people have signed Taichi Takashita’s on-line petition to establish a law permitting marriage to comic characters, according to The Daily Telegraph. Takashita says he feels more at ease in [...]
Continue reading...What Makes a Character Brand Licensable?
Monday, October 27, 2008
It is very easy to think that character design alone determines the success and failure of a character brand and how many licensing and merchandising deals it can garner. In actuality, the very first criteria for merchandising opportunities is mass exposure before anything else. Licensing agents and manufacturing companies are often opposed to taking on properties [...]
Continue reading...Katakune on Squidoo
Monday, July 28, 2008
We’ve just published a spanking hot lens for Katakune on Squidoo. Please check it out at http://www.squidoo.com/katakune. For a cartoon property coming out of Singapore - which is a country relatively new in the world of animation - we are humbled that Katakune is making some headway and gaining recognition across the world. Currently already sold [...]
Continue reading...Katakune DVDs to be Released in USA
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Katakune DVDs will be released in USA in October 2008! Through the efforts of our distributor, Katakune has secured a DVD release deal with PorchLight Home Entertainment. Already broadcasted on the Voom Kid’s Channel Animania HD in 2007, this is Katakune’s second entrance into the North American market and a testimony of Katakune’s cute appeal. “PorchLight Home [...]
Continue reading...BBC Olympics Animation Journey to the East
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy head on a “Journey to the East” for BBC Sport this summer. This animation based on the classical Chinese novel, “Journey to the West”, was produced by the men behind virtual band Gorillaz - Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. The animation is great to say the least. I would say that Damon and [...]
Continue reading...Website for Great Wooden Toys
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I did a post on some great looking wooden toys I found on the internet yesterday but was unable to say where the toys came from. My good friend - Xavier Feng (also co-creator and Creative Director on our animated series Katakune) - gave me the answer today - you can find them at [...]
Continue reading...Beautifully Designed Wooden Cartoon Toys
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
With recent news of high lead content and chemicals in plastic toys for kids, it is perhaps not a bad idea to look towards toys made from other materials. How’s wood for example? I’ve never been a fan of wooden toys personally, until I saw this collection. It totally blew me away! Check them out yourself. Wooden [...]
Continue reading...Hello Kitty for Japan’s New Ambassador of Tourism
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Japanese international phenom “Hello Kitty” has just been revealed to be Japan’s Ambassador of Tourism in China and Hong Kong! The newscaster reporting this doesn’t seem to be very thrilled though… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ0kbLPYxr8
Continue reading...Step Aside Tamagotchi, Here Comes Machicara!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
You might remember that many years ago in 1996 there was something called Tamagotchi which took the world by storm. It was the first cyber pet to be introduced to the world and came in the form of an electronic device with a simple LCD screen and a few buttons to manipulate with. The goal was [...]
Continue reading...Club Penguin the 2nd - The Race is On!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Not so long ago, Disney procured Club Penguin - a virtual world for kids between 6 to 14 - for a cool $350 million and the deal also allowed the founders an opportunity to make another $350 million from now till 2009. The website was barely 2 years old when it was procured. At the time [...]
Continue reading...Products and Services that can Benefit through Cartoon Character Licensing
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
There are many products and services that can benefit through cartoon characters licensing. In this article I would like to discuss some examples and hopefully give entrepreneurs a spark of inspiration. Nurseries If you run a nursery or a childcare centre, you might want to consider licensing the rights to use an endearing cartoon character to be [...]
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