Tiny Island Productions

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Tiny Island Productions
Type Partnership
Industry Animated films and
Founded 2002 (2002)
Founder(s) David Kwok
Headquarters Singapore
Key people David Kwok, CEO
Sharon Tan, Business Development Director
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Products Theatrical animated feature films
Television animated series
Employees 120 (2012)
Website www.tinyisland.net

Tiny Island Productions (a.k.aTiny Island Productions Pte Ltd) is a CG animation production company based in Singapore. It specializes in both normal CG and stereoscopic 3D productions. It was the animation studio for the Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens CG movie which won the Best 3D Animated Program category at the Asian Television Awards 2012[2][3]

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History [edit]

Tiny Island Productions was founded in 2002 by David Kwok, an animation veteran of 14 years, and and has a company strength of 120 staff.[4]

In 2009, it worked on co-development and production on the Shelldon animated TV series.[5] In 2012, the studio produced Cartoon Network's Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens for both regular and 3D screens.[6][7] The movie would be the first time the Ben 10 universe would be interpreted in full CG.[8][9] The film was nominated for the Best 3D Animated Program award at the Asian Television Awards 2012, which it won.[2][3]

The production house also created Singapore's first 3D Stereoscopic animated series Dream Defenders Adventures,[4] which debuted on 3net in 2011, and was the 3D channel's first stereoscopic-3D cg animated Series[10][11]

Upcoming productions [edit]

It is currently working with Shellhut Entertainment, the owners of Shelldon, to produce the stereoscopic 3D animated film which will be based on the TV series.[12]

Productions [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ . Singapore Media Fusion 2009. 2009 pg 15 http://www.smf.sg/MadebySingapore/Documents/Cluster%20PDF/Animation_2009.pdf pg 15. Retrieved November 29, 2012.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ a b "Nomination List for 2012 - Asian Television Awards". Asian Television Awards. Retrieved November 13, 2012. 
  3. ^ a b "Asian Television Awards 2012". Asian Television Awards. Retrieved December 7, 2012. 
  4. ^ a b Lim, Tania (October, 2012). "Tiny Island Productions creates Singapore's First Stereoscopic Animated Series for the US, and World's TV Screens". MediaExchangeMagazine Issue 14. Retrieved November 15, 2012. 
  5. ^ Valecha, Amrita (22 June 2009). "'Shelldon' Intl deliveries slated for July". Animation Xpress Asia Pacific. Retrieved November 15, 2012. 
  6. ^ Zahed, Ramin. "Singapore's Tiny Island Works On Ben10 Movie". AnimationMagazine. Retrieved November 23, 2012. 
  7. ^ Tan, Qiuyi. "S'pore animation studio produces new Ben 10 movie". Channel Newsasia. Retrieved November 27, 2012. 
  8. ^ Sarto, Dan (March 5, 2012). "Ben 10 Destroy All Aliens Movie to Premiere on Cartoon Network in March". Animation World Network. Retrieved November 27, 2012. 
  9. ^ "Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens". Cartoon Network. Retrieved November 27, 2012. 
  10. ^ Arrant, Chris (April 28, 2011). "3net Picks Up Tiny Island's 3D series "Dream Defenders" For U.S. Broadcasting". CartoonBrew.com. Retrieved November 27, 2012. 
  11. ^ "3net -- the 24/7 3D Network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX -- to Acquire Children's Series DREAM DEFENDERS". Discovery Channel. Retrieved November 27, 2012. 
  12. ^ McLean, Thomas J (October, 2012). "Shellhut, Tiny Island to make 3D Shelldon Movie". AnimationMagazine. Retrieved November 29, 2012. 

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