Wow! An Initiative…for meeeee?

If you’re wondering what Anant actually meant in the email mentioned in the previous post, well, back in early December last year, the government’s puppet for controlling and monitoring the media, the Media Development Authority, launched a “First-Time Writers and Illustrators Publishing Initiative”. They had only realized recently that comic books and graphic novels and print media is actually a high-selling form of media, mainly due to the rising number of comic book-based movies that are raking in millions and millions of profits every time they’re out there on the silver screen.

Well, it’s good that their primitive and low-IQ minds have finally caught up with the rest of the world, but sadly, they’re still new at this and so they kinda messed up here and there with the initiative. But, nevertheless, their intentions are good and they really seem interested in promoting this form of media so that young Singaporeans will no longer think twice about venturing into this field as now it is getting official support from the government. Here’s an excerpt of the glorious article:

[“Graphic novels have the potential to be adapted into animation, games, and movies. This will provide opportunities for homegrown creative content to reach world audiences through a range of medium such as books, comics, movies, TV shows and mobile content. It will also open new opportunities for our local players to co-produce with international partners. For example, the published works of last year’s recipients were promoted at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair which generated interest from international publishers and editors. This is a testament to the growing global interest and we hope to achieve greater success with the upcoming round of applicants,” added Mr Seto Lok Yin.]

http://www.mda.gov.sg/wms.www/thenewsdesk.aspx?sid=763

Well, ain’t he a peach. Thinking about profits and exploiting the talents of Singaporeans even further. That’s just so awesome, I think I might go ahead and sleep with him. But then again, before we really get excited about this, as usual, MDA has tons of guidelines for their causes. But, hey, they’re part of the government. I’m sure they’re smart. I’m sure they know how the comic book industry works and the elements that are necessary to make it work in this day and age. So let’s take a quick look at some of it:

http://www.mda.gov.sg/wms.file/mobj/mobj.961.FTWIPI%20-%20Guidelines%20and%20Form%20(ComicGraphicNovel).pdf

Okay, so maybe they’re really naive about this, but let’s hope they shake out of their stupidity and really understand what they’re talking about here.

Seriously, MDA, you wanna promote an initiative for comic books and graphic novels and you don’t allow so many things that make those things great and legendary. What, you think Sin City and the Dark Knight Returns are full of candy canes and cheery kids and guys who happily wear their colorful underwear on the outside ’cause they’re so sure people will not think they’re crazy or queer?

This ain’t the Golden Age of comic books anymore, hags! This is the Dark Age and I don’t think you geezers even know what that means. Seriously, Frank Miller would be suffering if he was born here. All the restrictions. All the regulations. There won’t be Sin City and 300! There’ll only be Singapore City and 647, which is the area (km2) of this stupid country last I checked.

Well, this thing only proves that once again, Singapore is being run by stupid, greedy, selfish and arrogant sons of bitches who think they know what they’re doing, but actually don’t and they think they’re doing and darn good job at governing this country, they have no issues in giving themselves a million-dollar raise each and yet find it troubling to support the 3000 low-income households here.

I seriously have to get outta here…

The 10th Grade

Anant Shiva to me, Man – March 20, 2007/via Gmail

yo…remember our idea about superheroes going out of jobs coz of MDA’s new “no violence, no sex, etc” thing on comic books? I was wondering..wouldn’t it be possible to do it with figurines that we buy from toys r’ us?…u know, old school animation..with simple, rudimentary sets and stuff. much like robot chicken?
I was concerned about the moving mouths..but then I thought maybe we could do that on after effects or something. imagine we have little images of different kinds of mouths. and in post, we import the images over and simply animate them over the figurines’ mouths. so then, we won’t have to worry about lip-syncing while doing the actual animating

this is how I imagined the process, tell me if I’m mistaken or missed out anything;

1) write the script
2) do the voices
3) do the animation
4) import over to after effects
5) import mouth images
5) do lip syncing according to the audio track
6) music, titles, etc

can that work? tell me what you think!

anyway, I got inspired so I made my own animation with some kinda food that I found on the dining table. it’s stupid. I wish I’d done it when I was 5 years old or something, but hey.