Saladin the Animated Series

Yeap, its the 1st Malaysian 3D animated series....with 13 parts (episodes maybe?)...conceived by Multimedia Development Corporation (MDec) in Malaysia, and has started since May 2004 with a 6 minute trailer aired in 2005 MSC 10th Annivesary celebration. Saladin will air in late this year.

Some of its achievements as listed in wiki...

• SALADIN, The Animated Series has won the Best Technology category at the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) Promotions Plan competition. It was short listed along with ten other finalists . In the competition, contestants have 10 minutes to pitch their proposed TV series to an international jury of broadcasting executives before a live audience of conference attendees.
• The animation film Saladin by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) has won the Tokyo Big Sight Award at last week's Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007, the world's largest anime exhibition.Saladin won the award for excellence in 3-dimensional computer-generated imagery (3D CGI), special visual effects and animation

and here's the pic (click to see better apparently to right two are hidden)



Saladin is about the 3rd Crusade, his the guy that untied the Saracens and captured Jerusalem, causing Frederick Barbarossa to lead a crusade taking a blessing from Pope Clement III. Though he died before he got there. So King Richard took up the mantle of leadership...yes, that's Robin Hood's king...so here's what I think. Saladin is the lone guy on the left. The girl is his gf, that is his "clown friend" and that maybe Richard? And the guy in the backdrop? Maybe Duke Leopold or someone "new"....who knows?