DIGITAL NATION TRANSFORMATION
According to ETNA, The Thai software firm E-Saan Software Park is teaming up with 3 View Group out of Singapore to produce animation and multimedia properties for the international market. One of the goals, according to the director of E-Saan Software Park is to create jobs and generate income for that market.
This makes me think back to the rise of Korea as an animation powerhouse which is epitomized in the epic film Wonderful Days, pictured above. I remember a long time ago one of the early pioneers of bringing anime to the U.S. attempted to release some Korean titles in the U.S. market. The gap between what was being done in Japan and what Korean studios were doing was very apparent back then. Korea was not even popular as an outsourcing stop for Japanese and U.S. animation back then.
One day digital technology comes in a takes over the media markets by storm. On top of this, Korean studios are basically being trained by the best as they do outsourcing work on Japanese animated films and TV series. Eventually some Japanese studios even make the choice to stop outsourcing because they feel it will have a negative effect on their economy in the future, but the effect may have already begun as shown by the popularity all over Asia of Wonderful Days.
Now China and Singapore are on the rise. If sites like CGTalk are any indication, many artists in these countries are heavily influenced by the anime art style and that of games like Final Fantasy X. It's fairly common to see works in online galleries by individual artists that rival the quality of the best anime and game cinematics. Now with Thailand getting into the mix, planning to create international properties, how will this transform the Asian animation scene overall?
This makes me think back to the rise of Korea as an animation powerhouse which is epitomized in the epic film Wonderful Days, pictured above. I remember a long time ago one of the early pioneers of bringing anime to the U.S. attempted to release some Korean titles in the U.S. market. The gap between what was being done in Japan and what Korean studios were doing was very apparent back then. Korea was not even popular as an outsourcing stop for Japanese and U.S. animation back then.
One day digital technology comes in a takes over the media markets by storm. On top of this, Korean studios are basically being trained by the best as they do outsourcing work on Japanese animated films and TV series. Eventually some Japanese studios even make the choice to stop outsourcing because they feel it will have a negative effect on their economy in the future, but the effect may have already begun as shown by the popularity all over Asia of Wonderful Days.
Now China and Singapore are on the rise. If sites like CGTalk are any indication, many artists in these countries are heavily influenced by the anime art style and that of games like Final Fantasy X. It's fairly common to see works in online galleries by individual artists that rival the quality of the best anime and game cinematics. Now with Thailand getting into the mix, planning to create international properties, how will this transform the Asian animation scene overall?
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