Allow me to ask this.
Who should I hire to run a studio animation which capable to run my own project from pre-production until post production?
Are you capable to do the pre-production works including the dubbing?
My knowledge on pre-production is nothing more than a theory I read in a book about publishing traditional animation I found in my Uni library.
The real world, I don't know and no contacts at all to ask how they're doing.
Actually, in Malaysia...
For an unknown people like me to even apply a fund as low as RM10K without "surat sokongan" from any YB or Dato, it's hardly for your application to be process and approved at all.
The Dato role is nothing more than making our application being process. The result still depends on the value of proposition in the proposal.
What I've learn so far from my working experience, the shady side of business is we just not need to "know how" but also need to "know who" if you get what I mean.
Actually, they still.
Why I strongly believe this is when someone I know not so close, already got his fund.
According to him, they have some quota to achieve to execute the Rancangan Kewangan Malaysia.
It actually not targeted only for animation but generally for TV content and animation is eligible for application since they are indeed one of TV content.
And I've verified this with the officer in charge in those government body.
To be exact we are under MSC, MEDC, or SKMM.
These bodies offer funding for animation but offer different terms and conditions.
This is just another leap stone before we become independence(financially) hopefully.
Personally I never know how the feeling of being bonded to government.
And like you said, most businessmen doesn't have choice to get the bucks because we can't get it anywhere else.
But there's term and condition and there's always higher people than the high rank officer which "take care" you.
If I can find any angel investor here, I wouldn't even approach government for funding.
It's not an easy way.
Sometimes I think that I am crazy enough to even think to start this kind of project.
I always think that this is not gonna work.
I always realize that this is almost near to impossible.
But...
Let's try, I said to my team.
The only thing we shall lost is some sweat, time, and flight tickets.
But we earn experience from it, maybe we can make use it for something else later days.
Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to co-operate with you.
Sorry, I don't believe the person who wrote this reply is 22 and almost caught in similar scam with a former boss, I threatens to resign to avoid the responsibility but the boss ask someone inexperienced to manage it and they produced ready to use sample based on the concept provided then they disappear, no one is cheated because it was a pitch with almost certainty if not guaranteed. If they got the job, they sell it to another production house.
I have heard enough of such scam, people who are not related to the industry set up these scams and fooled many book publishers in the past with the same story, how ironic. Maybe its true but its all about the money and artists only get a short term job while the fella went off with profit without doing anything. After that, the artist may have lost the existing clients.
Talk about MSC, MDEC and SKMM, I was in one of the scam project, have gone for interview to one of such operation also claim to be supported by some skim where the person always end with some Dato. Professional artist losing time is losing money, inexperienced artist is who you are looking for and they need the good experience.
Sep 13 2010, 10:27 PM
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