Ini ada satu cerita best.
Above are four out of seven titles of children's book based on the stories featured in 'Asian Legends' animation series that I'm producing at In-Fusion Solutions Sdn Bhd.
Biar aku ceritakan sikit pasal benda-benda berkaitan kerja aku.
First the company commissioned the animation series. Bring in Producer, create a team.
Once the animation series nak siap dah, then they created a spin-off project; in this case, projek buat buku cerita kanak-kanak.
The book project is an expansion of an Intellectual Property by putting it on multiple platforms rather than just focusing on a single medium.
Dalam bahasa senang, after an Intellectual Property is created, the next effort should be to maximisekan revenue from that IP. A good IP should generate sebanyak mana duit yang possible.
Habis bikin siap animation, my production team and I kemudiannya dapat directive untuk bukukan cerita-cerita from 'Asian Legends' the animation series.
As when working on the series, we did not have a proper Language Editor. Aku yang memang grad TESL ni terpaksalah do the in-house language editing myself, besides being the Series Producer.
My boys, a majority of them animators and background artists, terpaksa adapt their skills to do graphics & layout designs on this book project.
Even my Production Coordinator had to handle the text insertions.
With pride, I announce that my team worked hard on both the animation and storybook projects.
Dengan serba kekurangan dari segi support, the team completed their tasks walau bila start buat buku, ada team members hangin kat gua sebab depa kena buat kerja2 yang takde dalam jobspec masing-masing
So this week bila people from HQ informed us that the books dah diprint and will soon hit the market, aku memang suka hati sangat and proud to know our efforts membuahkan hasil.
In fact, semua yang terlibat dengan project ni pastinya share the same sentiments as I.
Sekali bila copies of the books tu sampai kat tangan kami, betapa terkejut beruk, badak & babi hutannya kami bila mata tertumpu pada satu bahagian on the books' covers.
Bahagian tertulis "Retold & Illustrated by" ..... Rupanya bukan kami In-Fusion Creative Unit.
Bukan team kami yang menceritakan dan membuat ilustrasinya, tapi rupa-rupanya semua Tokeh company kami yang buat, kalau ikut tulisan kat cover page tu.
Yang lagi tak tahan, siap ada satu page "About The Author" lagi.
Pun bukan In-Fusion Creative Unit yang dicreditkan for the work on that page.
Kami bukannya gilakan royalti ke hapa ke, but the implication of putting the tokeh's name affects semua yang bekerja on this project.
Dengan bahagian ini dicreditkan kepada tokeh secara total, none of us who worked on the project can ever mention it in our portfolios. Nanti satu Malaya tuduh kami penipu sebabkan bahagian 'retold & illustrated by' on the cover page jelas letak satu nama je.
Siut betul lah!
Disebabkan kes ini jugak lah, ku betul-betul rasa lega that my last day of service dengan studio nih is next Monday 30th August.
Seriously, I've had enough of this shit.
Nampaknya this year, pengertian Merdeka memang sajak benarlah dengan diri aku.
Aku akan merdeka untuk develop THAWS sepenuhnya.
Wish me luck, readers.
But I'm sure my boys need luck more than me.
Let's pray for them because they still work for the same tokeh and company!
