Comments on: AniBoom’s Animation-Studio Ambitions

By: Aniboom Believed to Raise $10 Million from DFJ

Aniboom Believed to Raise $10 Million from DFJ — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:38:45 +0000

[...] on its site to co-produce animation series with contributors, who get paid for their work. (See our review here). The site competes with MyToons. Below is CEO Uri Shinar’s Elevator Pitch recorded at the [...]

By: Dan Vigil

Dan Vigil — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:53:14 +0000

Roi,
Need to fix the Crazy Frog video link on this one.

By: iCluck - SEO/SEM

iCluck - SEO/SEM — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:11:17 +0000

I second the idea of college students — Get the college students involved, for they are making amazing strides in their work at the top tier art / animation schools. They would jump at the chance to make money from their work and there is a great possibility that the next Pixar-like artists will come from those colleges out there – they just need to be given the medium to show their work, and I think AniBoom is a great opportunity for that. What about creating a Facebook app for Aniboom targeting the top tier art colleges?

By: Peter Stain

Peter Stain — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:43:10 +0000

Michael, this is not really ethical to write about a crunchies nominee without disclosing it. there is no special announcement it here and i dont’ see the point of this article except giving more visibility to a candidate. so please add a disclosure mention

By: gregory

gregory — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:08:23 +0000

the inspiration i take from this article… think international… i know it is “obvious”, but i forget sometimes, i must be american

By: Anthony Kuhn

Anthony Kuhn — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:55:30 +0000

Roi:

I love this piece! It’s just perfect for a bit of Friday Fun. I linked to your story from my blog at the Innovators-Network in hopes that some of my readers will visit TechCrunch and read the whole story.

Go, Crazy Frog, Go!

Anthony Kuhn

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:55:58 +0000

I’d finally managed to wipe that annoying ringtone out of my head, and now you’ve gone and brought it all flooding back. Thanks.

By: Joke Cricket

Joke Cricket — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:51:03 +0000

nowadays every one wants to become a Youtube!!! How strange?
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By: VC Cafe

VC Cafe — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:46:49 +0000

Aniboom is a good example of great internet startups coming out of Israel and there are many more. For the list of Israel’s sexiest startups for 2008,

http://digg.com..._in_Israel_2008

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:42:05 +0000

“…When the worlds of animation, licensing, and merchandising collide….”

You forgot one other world – Jamster spending up to 40 million euro in a *quarter* on ads that dupe kids and teens into spending $10-$20 a month on ring tones (I am talking 2005/6 here). You are bound to get noticed. There are models out there though which did not piss off half the world’s pontential mobile content customers and it would be better to read about them.

By: Peter Antypas

Peter Antypas — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:36:15 +0000

This is what happens when you take a mainstream product (animation) make a 10x change in one of its key parameters (typically cost but not always) and find niche, emerging markets for it.

Pixar disrupted Hollywood in its time. Eventually it will be disrupted by a startup like this.

By: Munashe Gumbozvanda

Munashe Gumbozvanda — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:26:59 +0000

i think the idea is very good but risky. Its like youtube trying to make a studio for comedy sketches. The business model is truly tough but feasible.

Went to their site, and the content is good but makes you beg for better, theses guys have nothing on pixar. They should try to publish professionals stuff with this amateur stuff.

all in all i will join, i am an animator

By: Amnon

Amnon — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:29:30 +0000

you want to compare aniboom with 20 ground animations to pixar? is it a joke?

By: Paul J

Paul J — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:03:02 +0000

“The crazy thing about crazy frog is that there was no master plan behind its making”
Precisely, so trying to unbake that cake to find the ingredients for its (somewhat bizarre) success is going to be difficult… morphing “a series of lucky accidents into a pitch-to-production methodology” takes more than just cash, time and marketing muscle – it takes creativity, an idea that has the ability to chime with a vast audience and bucket loads of luck.

By: MP3Nation

MP3Nation — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:49:18 +0000

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By: airj1012

airj1012 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:47:03 +0000

Wow, I can’t believe that thing made $80 Million, wow. The better video is here: http://www.yout...h?v=XkHm8uUuT0o

By: rod / techwatching.com

rod / techwatching.com — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:31:47 +0000

Its nice to see a company focused on the quality of content produced instead of the site’s traffic metrics.

A suggestion for Uri: reach out to students. Universities and tech colleges are where future animators train, and where many new ideas & talents germinate; why not tap that resource? Offer students the revenue sharing deal, and I’m sure they’d jump at the opportunity for exposure and profit.

http://techwatc...?search=aniboom

By: Adrian Keys

Adrian Keys — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:23:18 +0000

The post highlights the level of experimentation that may be required before AniBoom gets it right.

Given the niche and with adequate resources and the right players, it could very well be worth it.

By: Jenn Young

Jenn Young — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:08:48 +0000

I don’t see why the CEO of this site doesn’t partner with an open source animation app — there are a lot of good ones out there.

FYI, the Crazy Frog link isn’t working (first sentence 4th paragraph)