KUALA TERENGGANU: Three locally-produced animation series will be shown on local television following the setting up of the e-Farm here.

Thirteen episodes each of Tiga Dara Pingitan, Arca and Atuk and Kabillah will be shown on Astro Prima, Astro Ceria and Astro Isis in April.

Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the quality of the animation series was high.

"Our animators were trained by experts in Hollywood. I'm proud of them. Malaysians should support the series.

"I hope we can sell the series to South Korea to promote the state," he said after chairing the weekly executive council meeting here yesterday.
Ahmad said the state government had invested RM4.1 million in the three animated series, which were produced by Epict Eastern Pacific ICT, a government-owned subsidia-ry.

The state government spent RM65,000 monthly on 45 Terengganu-born animators who graduated from e-Farm.

The e-Farm project was launched last year to develop workers in creative content and software development.

Terengganu expects to produce 4,000 ICT workers every year.

The initiative, with a budget of RM140 million, is expected to turn the state into a hub for global creative content and software development activities by 2010.

The project will focus on the development of workers in computer programming, computer animation and website development.