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musicguy
05-17-2009, 02:29 AM
Mediafreaks has a released a free e-book on our journey in creating the award winning animated preschooler series Katakune from scratch. This was first published in the Go Motion Animation Magazine in February 2009.

In it we talk about how the concept was conceived, how we went about raising funds, what USP (unique selling points we devised), our production techniques and more.

We hope that by sharing this e-book we would be able to inspire budding creators and studios to create their own cartoon properties.

http://www.media-freaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/katakunes-journey.jpg (http://blog.media-freaks.com/katakunes-journey/)

Katakune’s Journey (http://blog.media-freaks.com/katakunes-journey/)
SUNCHIRP
05-17-2009, 02:27 PM
Excellent, thanks a lot for this, series looks great ! :)

Regards.
musicguy
05-17-2009, 05:29 PM
Hi Sunchirp, thanks for your kind words, glad you enjoyed it :)
Pentagramma
05-18-2009, 01:15 AM
Great material! Thanks for sharing.
DoubleSupercool
05-18-2009, 01:47 AM
Very interesting! Thanks for taking the time to make those e-books available. I am looking at doing something similar with friends soon, so it is great to see how other people have gone about it.
Ilive
05-18-2009, 05:16 AM
I'm going to check it out now and put a review up!
Ilive
05-18-2009, 03:15 PM
Great story! Love the history behind your characters and your studio. 500 hours that is great! Good job!

I had a question...how did you go about finding your investors?
musicguy
05-18-2009, 05:20 PM
Thank you all for your kind words.

Ilive, finding investors is a skill and an art. Basically they are everywhere. There are loads of rich people around. The problem is that you've got to have an enticing business plan and good products to show. It's hard to just sell them an idea. I would still advise networking, or asking people to connect you.
Remi
05-18-2009, 08:50 PM
The similarity to Pocoyo is too strong for me, same number of syllables in name, white backgrounds, minimalist character design, bright colors, old english dude narrating, even what sounds like a lot of the same sound effects, i'm disappointed. But I guess someone had to do it. Or maybe i'm just reading too much into it.:shrug:
DoubleSupercool
05-18-2009, 11:28 PM
Aldric, I was also curious about the angel investors. Does Singapore have a government funded TV station and could you have gotten support that way? I know that many countries have a government funded station that must show a certain % local content and they provide grants for a lot of that kind of thing.
musicguy
05-19-2009, 03:02 AM
Hi Double SuperCool,

Yes, the Singapore government does provide grants and schemes to help the local industry. You can find out more at http://www.mda.gov.sg.

But it's not through the fact that they own the local TV station. They basically do it through various schemes that are structured to grow the local industry.

Aldric
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