Mediafreaks Animation Studio

Our Company Vision is to create an entertainment behemoth vehicle that will not just provide quality animation services to broadcasters and producers around the world, but also create multiple streams of revenue through the creation and exploitation of our own original intellectual properties. These intellectual properties will be educational, entertaining and be appealing to a worldwide audience and be applicable across all media platforms cum merchandise to maximize our revenue and enhance the sustainability of our businesses.

Our Company Mission is to be Asia's leading content provider for character-branded content and merchandise that caters to all age groups.

The values that we uphold are originality, creativity, responsiveness, responsibility, quality and trustworthiness.

Mediafreaks's portfolio includes projects for:

Broadcasters such as Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel (NGC), Off the Fence, NHK, Medstar TV, Voom HD, Disney Channel Asia, MTV Asia and Mediacorp Studio.

Production Houses such as Darlow Smithson Productions, NHNZ, Southern Star Group, Beach House Pictures, Oak3 Production, Ochre Pictures, Mega Media and Bang Singapore.

Companies such as Schering Plough, Wyeth, Pilot Pen, Hewlett Packard (HP), Intel, Tan Chong Holdings, Air Pork Asia, Kumon , Sino-America Tours (SATours) Field Catering, Ove Arup, IMG Models, Motorola, NeoAsia, Nestle, Pico Creative, Susan Lim Surgery, The Wine Company.

Local Government Bodies such as the the Media Development Authority (MDA), the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the Public Utilities Board (PUB), Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA).

Mediafreaks is fully dedicated to providing top quality animation for our clients from all around the world, and we look forward to serving you too.

For more details of Mediafreaks's projects, click here.

I founded Mediafreaks in 2003. Mediafreaks started off as a 2 dollar and 2 man company. The first year was spent servicing projects through Elance. All of our clients were from around the world and we did all manners of work ranging from animation to graphics design to web design to multimedia work.

In 2004, we set up shop in a small room rented out from an advertising company and received our first local project in the form of a medical animation CD-Rom for a nutritional company. The value of that project was $30,000. The rest of the year was spent servicing clients from Singapore and Elance. By the end of the year we had built up a pretty decent portfolio and we were able to move out of our small room to a proper office at Club Street.

It was at this point that the partner who had been with me from the start resisted the idea of incorporating Mediafreaks as a private limited and structuring it like a proper company. To me, it was evident that we could never grow as a company if we continued as a 2-man team. I wanted to grow a business, not be a couple of glorified freelancers forever. My partner finally relented but two months after we hired two new guys to help us grow the business, my first partner decided that he could not take the pay cut and decided to bail out. It was a difficult and awkward period because the two new guys are fresh out from school and lacked experience. I had to juggle between training them up, managing projects and producing animation. But miraculously things pulled through and I am proud to say that two of these guys are now partners of Mediafreaks and both are strong pillars of the company. Aric Lim is managing most of the outsourced projects for our service division and Galen Toh is the man in-charge of our operations in China.

In 2005, one of the challenges Mediafreaks faced was struggling to have a clear brand identity. We were doing all manners of projects and it was clear that we needed to be known for specializing in something in order to gain brand recognition. It was then we stumbled upon the very niche service of creating animation for documentaries. Quite by chance, we were approached by Bang Singapore to produce the animation for a Discovery documentary titled "Secrets of the Battleship Yamato". Apparently we did such a good job that soon we had documentary producers approaching us to produce animation for their documentaries! Up until today, we have produced the animation for about 30 documentaries, amongst which several are extremely popular and even won a few awards. To name a few, we produced the animation for the Man Made Marvel series, Mega Structures series, the award-winning Super Cell, Secrets of the Battleship Yamato and the Voyages of Zhenghe.

In 2006, Mediafreaks was ready to move on and embark on creating our own intellectual properties. The first property we worked on was a preschooler animated series called Katakune. We invested some of our own money to create the pilot episodes and character bible, and were lucky enough to get the support of MDA and other private investors to fund the full production of Katakune later on.

It was also during the year of 2006 that we marketed our services aggressively to the local market, and we started getting projects to do animated TV commercials. We also became the first and only animation studio to offer medical animation services in Singapore. It might be worthwhile mentioning that the medical animation we did for a documentary called Super Cell won several awards.

2007 was a very busy year as we were working on producing Katakune and working back-to-back on several projects at any one time.

Earlier this year in 2008, we wrapped up production of Katakune and embarked on our second animated series - Sedo Dog. Katakune was ready to go to market with 520 minutes worth of high quality HD animated content. To date, Katakune has won a couple of animation awards and broadcasted in several countries.

MediaFreaks Pte Ltd
206A SYED ALWI ROAD SINGAPORE 207739
OFFICE NO: +65 6323 3186
FAX: +65 6323 2960

Please speak to Aric Lim, Adrian Chye or Aldric Chang pertaining any matters.

Mail us at info@media-freaks.com.

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