EASYUNI Ultimate University Guide 2013 Issue 4 | Page 33

CO U R S E S & C A REERS
David Kwok
An animation veteran who has been in the industry for 14 years, Singapore-born
David Kwok founded Tiny Island Productions in 2002,which was responsible for
creating, managing and marketing quality content for the global CGI animation
market. In 2009, Tiny Island Productions joined forces with international distributor
Classic Media (Dreamworks Classic) and Thailand-based production company,
Shellnut Entertainment, on a CGI-animated series called Shelldon.
In 2012, Tiny Island Productions produced the all-new Cartoon Network’s Ben 10:
Destroy All Aliens made-for-TV movie in both standard and 3D formats. It won
the Best 3D Animated Program award at the Asian Television Awards 2012. The
company made history when they created Dream Defenders Adventures, which
happened to be Singapore’s first 3D stereoscopic animated series. It won the award
for Best 3D Animation at the Asia Image Apollo Awards 2013.

Wang Li feng
He graduated from School for Gifted Young of USTC (University of Science and
Technology of China) and obtained his Master’s degree in Computer Graphics from
the University of British Columbia, Canada. He founded Xing Xing Digital, the Beijingbased animation studio in 2004, which specialises in animation and visual effects
production as well as IP development. In 2007, Xing Xing Digital was named one of
the most influential Asian animation production companies by Animation Magazine.
Some of the high-profile projects that Xing Xing Digital were involved in include
two animated AOL Kids Web series, Gigi and the Green Team”, which featured top
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen as a superhero battling for the environment;
and Martha and Friends, which featured a 10-year-old Martha Stewart operating an
event-planning company from a tree house. Xing Xing Digital also provided special
effects for the 2008 hit vampire movie Twilight before joining forces with Pelagius
Entertainment in Los Angeles to co-produce an upcoming animated movie called
Smart. Smart will be directed by John A. Davis, whose previous directorial efforts
were Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius(2001) and The Ant Bully(2006).

Satoshi Kon
Born in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Satoshi Kon aspired to become an animator since high
school. In 1982, he