I love the vision of Rovio, a Finnish company that create the hit iPhone and iPad game titled “Angry Birds“. They have a big plan to turn that simple yet popular game to a wider lines of products and franchises such as toys, comic books, animated tv series and ultimately the major motion pictures like Pixar’s movies. At least, that’s what I understand from the interview with Mikael Hed, the CEO of Rovio Mobile. If you don’t have any idea how popular this game is, well, this “Angry Birds” game had already been downloaded and sold for more than 6.5 million times. Damn it!! What a success of a simple mobile game!!
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Another creative product from Malaysia has arrived. The 3D animation titled “Chiee: Pengembaraan Si Genius” has already being aired on TV2 RTM since 20th August 2010. You and your kids can watch it on every Friday 9 am. This 22 minutes per episode cartoon is produced by a local content and multimedia company called “Redang Digital” and the series are written by Mazita Mamat and directed by Ahmad Azrin Abd Rahman. The tagline for this 13 episodes tv animation is “Mengembara Sambil Meneroka Sains dan Teknologi“. Well, sounds like an edutainment type of cartoon for me. Learn something while enjoying it. Hmm..sounds good for my kids. You can watch the preview of the animation series below:

For more info about this 3D animation, you can visit its Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/chieegenius?ref=ts. You may also visit http://www.redangdigital.com/ to know more about the company behind it. Believe me, the blog of the company is worth a visit for those aspire to open their own animation company.

Below is the cover page from the new issue of Official Playstation Magazine. This month, the main article of the magazine is on the latest Batman video game titled “Batman: Arkham City“. On the cover, we can see our beloved hero, the Dark Knight, with Harley Quinn in the new outfit or costume design. Batman looks very tough and muscular as usual while Harley Quinn seems a little bit different this time and looks more like a professional killer who dress up like Britney Spears and less like the clown in the circus. Anyway, for me the cover looks cool enough and they can produce the wallpaper version too. Awesome dude!!!

Khairul Ammar aka Silentgecko (picture courtesy of Berita Harian)

Last week, Berita Harian Online published an article about the interview with one of the rising comic artists in Malaysia. His popular nickname in the animation and comic industry is Silentgecko while his real name is Khairul Ammar Jamal Abdul Haziq. He was born on 6th July 1980 and this year he is a 30-year-old dude. Furthermore, he is one of my Pergh friends and I knew him since the early Laman Seni days at Balai Seni Lukis Negara. Based on the interview, he had experiences working as an animator, concept artist for game, comic artis for indie and mainstream magazine, colourist and also as storyboard artist for Saladin animation. Wow!! What an impressive resume he got there. Damn cool bro. I’m pretty jealous at you rite now :) His artworks are very fantastic and marvellous (and yummy…). You can see some of it below.
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I just come across a list of “Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time” based from the IGN survey and research. From what I read this is the latest list which came out at the end of last year 2009. I found out that many resources use this list as the references or use it as the benchmark to produce their own Top 10 or Top 5 list of bad guys in the comics world. Since to list down all the Top 100 might be too long for me, here I just put the list of the villains, baddies and evil that make it to the Top 10 inside the IGN list. So, here they are….Drum roll, please!!! Dumm..dumm..dummm… dummm..JENNGGG!!!!!

#10 : Kingpin

#9 : Dark Phoenix

#8 : Loki

#7 : Ra’s Al Ghul

#6 : Darkseid

#5 : Galactus

#4 : Lex Luthor

#3 : Doctor Doom

#2 : Joker

#1 : Magneto

So, what da ya think of the list? Not satisfied? Me neither For detail and to get all the Top 100 list, you can visit http://comics.ign.com/top-100-villains/.