(from left: Mr Niran Noor, Dato' Badlisham Ghazali, Mr Fuad Ahmad, Mr Hasnul, Zaid, Nizam, Mr Burhan)
Firstly they were brought into our office, straight up to the production level as they were really eager to meet the staff of Les' Copaque Production. Nizam and Zaid gave them the tour, showing them every single department and explaining what they do. The above picture is where they observe animators Sengkee and Nazmi doing their magic.
Later Yongpin and Naz demonstrate the later process of animation pre-edit, where completed animation shots are compiled together in the time line and are processed for quality and consistency. Any changes can be made by redistributing the shots back to the animators. Poor Sengkee and Nazmi, hope your shots are accepted.
Naz and Yong Pin explain further, how the pre-edit prepares the list of shots ready to be rendered by the Rendering team.
Yuki, Ahwei and Mumu demonstrate the overall rendering process where shots are broken down into different layers for efficient rendering process as well as flexibility for the later Compositing process. They also went to other departments including Script, Audio, Modeling and were extensively briefed. 
The LCP staff were really happy to have Dato' Badlisham meeting every single person in the office to understand better on what they do and to get to know them better. He was even interested in the songs Ida was listening to at the moment of her rendering work. Let's hope Ida was listening to happy music.
Lastly the production tour ended upstairs where we showed them our training facilities and the server room where our server has a total of 16 Terrabytes to accomodate the massive storage requirement for the rendered shots. Anyone knows how many Gigabytes that is? The server also acts as a network hub where all computers are connected in the production. 
Finally we gave them a presentation downstairs on our business plans and a special sneak preview screening of one of our latest completed scenes, showcasing the action scenes from Geng: The Adventure Begins. They enjoyed the show and gave very good feedback. No doubt this boosted our confidence with our product and will definitely drive the team further into completing the film. Satisfied, Dato' Badlisham and others went back with full stomachs (lunch at Geng's Corner) and Upin & Ipin DVDs. We would like to thank Dato' Badlisham Ghazali, Mr Niran Noor, Mr Fuad Ahmad and Mr Hasnul for visiting our office and hope it was as enjoyable for MDeC as it was for our staff. pictures by Faizu, edited by Fuad
