Thursday, June 26, 2008
What is Junior Manga Challenge 2008?
The Junior Manga Challenge 2008 (JMC08) is a manga creation competition aimed at 7 to 17 year olds. It is now common to find children as young as 5 capable of creating their own stories in the form of manga.
Manga drawing competitions are common both locally and overseas, many of which are organised typically for the tertiary students and professional artists who wish to pursue a career as a manga creator, or “mangaka”.
But then, with manga and anime being more available locally on television, bookstores and the internet, the young ones now too are just as inspired and not to mention creatively driven like their older siblings.
Therefore, we decided to organise a special manga competition just for the young ones called the Junior Manga Challenge 2008 and enable them to show off their raw imaginations to the world, just like the adults.
The Objective of Junior Manga Challenge 2008
The objective of the Junior Manga Challenge 2008 is to enable young Malaysian students to express their creativity by creating a manga, based on their own original stories or a pre-existing animation, manga, movie etc.
As organisers, we believe that manga is a great medium for the young to tap into their potential talents, cultivate and nurture creative thinking. Manga is observed to be very popular among the young for its unique art style and enriching stories. A competition of this kind compels the young to create characters with emotions and conflicts that are wrapped within their own universe be it in reality or in a fantasy realm. This spurs imaginative thought that it then channeled from the heart and mind and expressed in the form of drawings and stories.
Who are the Organisers?
The Junior Manga Challenge 2008 is co-organized between Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC), Transtel Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd. and MRCB-Technologies Sdn. Bhd. as part of the MSC Multimedia Creative Content Initiative. The initiative is to cultivate and encourage creativity and storytelling in students in primary and secondary schools in preparation for a more challenging and dynamic future. MDeC has been long championing the nurturing of such creative talents in the Malaysian local market through its multimedia creative content initiative.
In 2007, Transtel Technology, co-organized with MDeC, a similar digital creative competition aimed for schools known as the Junior Animation Challenge 2007 (JAC07).
Transtel came in with the tools and provided technology to organise animation workshops for all participating schools.
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