IP Creators Challenge: MSC Animation Pitch 2006

Check it out guys, time to get your ideas out in the open. Or as they say - Stand up and be Counted! This is your chance to prove that you got what it takes and your ideas will stand the test of the international market...

From the Website:
The Creative Multimedia Department of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) is organizing an animation pitching competition, under the MSC Creative Multimedia Content Initiative (M-CMCI). In this competition, companies or individuals will have to pitch their ideas or pre-production of their animated characters, the story and eventual background information of the show.

OBJECTIVE:

•	To use this as a content creation platform and to create more quality content that can be showcased or marketed globally.
•	The competition will be an avenue to encourage and nurture new talents in turning their Ideas into reality.
•	To attract animation content developers to come out with greater ideas and stories

FIVE winners will be awarded a RM50,000 grant each, to support their trailer or pilot episode. The competition will be opened from 26 April 2006 until 14 June 2006.

|| Creative Multimedia Cluster + MDC ||

Why can't we ask the right questions?

Question No.1: What is the Saladin project?
Question No.2: What is the CAD-C?
Question No.3: What is the CMD?
Question No.4: What is MDeC's Mandate?
Question No.5: What is the cost of this fiasco?
Question No.6: What is the true cost of the project?

The answers can be found everywhere - if we really look for it. It is through assumptions that we make the mother of all f-ups.
Could someone answer these questions for me? I am lost here.

Wow, its been quite a long time since I wrote last. Been a lots busy since early in the year. The MDC oopss - sorry MDeC has been going through some changes lately. We've got a new CEO! Yes, Datuk Mohamed Arif Nun has left the house and enter - Mr. Badlisham Ghazali, CEO MDeC. Transitions been good - lately - been going allright for us in the CMD. Alot of work - but its a positive outcome for us.

Recently we launched the MSC Creative Multimedia Content Initiative (also known as M-CMCI), a program to push forward the creative multimedia content industry in Malaysia. Hope the country steps up and moves forward! The numbers are sexy - The Media Entertainment Market is US644 Billion Worldwide (PWC). How can we make Malaysia sexy enough for the world market?

Broad strategies are being put in place to create the necessary momentum for us to succeed - its very much a long term plan - we need all the inner strength we can get. These strategies address several areas like IP Creation, Funding initiatives, Ensuring growth and sustainabilities of companies, even shared infrastructure. When we get down to specifics - this is where I have sleepless nights - there's so much to do.

We should be announcing a program soon under this initiative - called the IP Creator Challenge - Time to Stand up and Be Counted Malaysians. Think it should be sometime late next week. My biggest fear is that we don't have the ideas we are so proud of telling people. When push comes to shove - when you're asked to put your thoughts on paper - you back down and disappear into the crowd. I hope my fear will go away....