Emotions: Perplexed Complexity. // 我的生活雑感。～橙思い日记本～

December 2, 2004

AnimaXtion 2004

Thanks to Ben, I had the chance to attend the AnimaXtion Symposium event that was held at Cathay Cineleisure, Cineplex earlier on Tuesday, organised by MDA Singapore in conjunction with the Asia Media Festival 2004 that is going on right now. It was quite an eye-opener for me as we got to hear some of the famous people in the animation industry giving their speeches as well as talking about their very own latest works. Normally this kind of anime convention talk is considered kind of a rare event here locally, considering usually only countries like Japan, Korea and US will host convention talks like this one. We got to meet some of the famous anime producers like Mr Akitaro Daichi from Japan, showcasing his latest work, Makasete Iruka! (known as Grrl Power in US) as well as our very own Singaporean talent Mr Nickson Fong, CEO of Egg Story Creative Productions, his own company. He’s responsible for some of the highly-acclaimed animations in Hollywood productions like Shrek, and movies like the Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as scenes from The Matrix Reloaded. He also showcased one of his latest work during the event which is a TVCM for the Singapore Navy, it’s about a transmariner transforming into a robot with very cool special effects. You should be able to spot or have already seen this TVCM on local SMRT buses and MRTs by now. Anyway I kinda enjoyed the event, hopefully next time in future MDA Singapore will organise more of such convention talks like this again.

Ok I shall stop here, it’s getting late and I’m gonna rush off for the BBQ event, so I guess I shall see ya folks sometime next week again? Till then enjoy and take care of yourselves everyone. *waves*