A little more on SICAF2007

Hi guys,

I have to apologize for this coming in late, but here's a little bit more story and pictures of our trip to SICAF2007.

Basically SICAF2007 is open to the public and ran for 5 days. It's a festival to showcase Comics and Animations particularly from Koreans of course. It's also a place for new studios to pitch their animation ideas to a panel of juries and hopefully get picked up for a full production.

Seeing the event, we hoped that the animation industry in Malaysia will grow bigger and hopefully have our own animation festival just as grand if not more. I did some photo snapping of the locals enjoying the festival. Though we mostly stayed at the booth and entertained visitors who were interested to know more about our film. There was also business forums conducted for the companies who came to learn from the big production houses and exchange contacts. Anyway here are some pictures.

SICAF2007 was big. It was open to the public so it was filled with students and kids. Comics and animation is big in Korea so everyone wanted to come in to check out the latest stuff. There were 3 halls, 1 for comics, 1 for business pitchings, and 1 for miscellaneous booths with merchandises and University booths. The public could come to the booths and take pictures of their favourite mascots, wear big masks and take pictures, check out gigantic sized models of popular manga/animation characters, and many more. There was quite a lot of merchandise being sold and one booth had Nintendo DSes on display for kids to try them out hands on.

Here's our booth under MSC Malaysia. Check it out the Geng trailer is on widescreen TV! Surprisingly industry people from China and Korean companies were really interested with our film and asked quite some questions regarding it despite having a slight communication barrier (which was solved easily with our Korean interpreter who conveyed our message well, but she's not my new girlfrieenndd!!! Jangan salah paham!)

Here are some pictures of the students' booths from animation and comic Universities. I must say they were very creative in designed beautiful booths with limited building materials. The picture on the right shows the line up of animation company pitches in the business section where industry people can check out their pitches individually on the computer. The pitches were really great.

Alas we couldn't stay till Sunday and had to leave by Friday since the flights were fully booked. It was also good to be back home in Malaysia early as i was longing for some Nasi Goreng Biasa quite a bit. Thanks to MDeC for inviting us for SICAF and the whole organizers. Before we left Adam from MDeC treated us with a nice dinner on the night before we left, so thank you Adam as well hehe. Ooohh king crab sedap.