Founded by 3 brothers Wong Pak Lin, Wong Pak Ting and Wong Pak Lum, the company started operation in 1989 and officially registered
as a partnership company (TGV) in 1990. Started out as a wedding video company and equipped with the Amiga personal computer,
the company began creating personal computer animated cel animation and applied them in their first job of wedding video.
Being one of the earliest company creating affordable personal computer animated animation for video, the company quickly
attracted attention from producers in the video and broadcast industry and rapidly became an animation service provider.

In 1994, a new company TGV Cartoon Production Sdn Bhd was set up to replace the earlier partnership company
due to new government regulation requiring it to be a private limited company. The new company inherited the name
(TGV) to reflect a continuity from the original company and appended the word "Cartoon" because the company
was then more focused in the area of 2D cartoon animation. In the early 90s, the general term "Animation" was not
so common in Malaysia and many even mis-pronounced it as "Amination".

Even though TGV Cartoon Production initially focused on producing 2D Cartoon animation (nowadays
simply refers to 2D Animation), the company did not stop there but ventured into other types of animation including stop-motion
and 3D CGI. In 2008, the company decided to officially changed her name to use the then more common term "Animation".
The alphabet "C" for Cartoon is now attached to TGV to register the path of evolution.

The notable works since 1989

1989 The Cupid (no audio)

The company's first computer colored and animated cel animation for wedding videos. Created using the Amiga 500 with only half megabyte RAM, without harddisk and at a time no scanner available, the animation represents a remarkable achievement in Malaysia for creating animation using personal computer. The paper drawings/cels were digitized using a match-box size DigiView Gold video digitizer from Newtek, colored and animated using Deluxe Paint 2D animation software from Electronic Arts. Everything runs on 3.5-inch low density floppy disk including the multitasking Amiga operating system.

1990 The Honeymoon (no audio)

Another short animation for wedding videos. The Cupid was used for the opening of wedding video while The Honeymoon was used for the ending. Photograph/potrait of the new couple was composed into the animation and animated together. The novelty of creating animation for wedding videos had very much attracted attention from many of the video industry player at that time to consider using our animation services.

1990 Dragon and Phoenix (no audio)

The company's first full cel animation. Home made light-box and peg bar made from chop-stick were used for the creation of this piece. The animation was used mainly for non-Christian Chinese wedding videos for the opening sequence.

1990 The Cockroach (no audio)

The company's first attempt on integrating cel animation with live action. The realtime keying was done using the MiniGen from Commodore. The Cockroach animation was used for the company's presentation during its humble opening ceremony.

1991 MBf SuperRabbit

This animation was a commisioned job engaged by advertising agency for TV Commercial pitching to a local bank.

1992 Berita Harian

This animation was a commisioned job engaged by advertising agency for TV Commercial pitching to a local newspaper.
The entire animation was created by directly drawing on-screen with computer mouse.

1993 Best Counting Video Ever

This was the company's first long-form animation commisioned by local video distributor Speedy Video. The runnig time of this video was about 30 minutes.

1993 Jangan Main-main

This was the animation created for use in MTV for local singer Salih Yaccob with song title in Malay: "Jangan Main-main".

1992~1993 3D Test Animation

The company started experimenting on 3D CGI animation with personal computer.

1994 Nursery Sing-Along

This Nursery Sing-Along Karaoke was another commisioned project awarded by Speedy Video. It was the company's first production using hand painted background for personal computer animated animation.

1996 Di Mana Joe Jambul

"Di Mana Joe Jambul" was a commisioned project awarded by national broadcaster RTM1. It was the first local children's quiz TV program using cel animation to make it more entertaining and engaging. The company was responsible to produce the required animation sequences for the original 52 episodes and helped the producer won the 1996 Seri Angkasa Award for the best children's program category.

1998 The Hungry Worm

In 1998 the company started venturing into stop-motion puppet animation. The Hungry Worm was a short story test animation prior to the planned tv series "Bobby The Red Ant", the first attempt to creating the company's own Intellectual Property. All prop sets, puppets including the metal armatures and all other puppet supporting apparatus were developed and built in-house.

1998 Bobby The Red Ant

After created the test animation -- The Hungry Worm, the development of pilot episode for a planned TV series Bobby The Red Ant was initiated. This more chalenging stop-motion animation project involved the design of more complex six-legged flying creatures and larger scale prop sets. Development also went for designing the "flying support" system to facilitate manupulating puppets in mid-air. Unfortunately, the project was scrapped after completed the pilot episode due to the prolonged impact of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.

2000 The Gift

This was a piece of commisioned project awarded by the Singapore based company Music 4 Nothing. Created for free internet distribution, it was a 2D Flash animation combined with video footage of performing singers.

2001 The Sweeties

This was a co-production with The Brocita Corporation to produce a Mandarin Karaoke MTV for children. TGV Cartoon Production Sdn Bhd was responsible for the animation and the Brocita Corporation supplied the soundtrack. It was marketed for the local VCD market.

2003 KFC Hour

KFC Hour was the animation service provided for a Saturday morning animation slot where the KFC character was a host to present the syndicated foreign animation programs including the Japanese Anime. The specially packaged animation slot was aired on TV3.

2005 Journey Home

Journey Home was the company's first 3D CGI character animation developed for television. The 13-episode series was also the first locally produced TV series having 3D CGI animal characters with computer generated fur.

2009 Naughty Angel

The Naughty Angel was a test sequence demonstrating 3D Character interacting with live-actor. It was a sequence that had succesfully pitched for a TV Commercial job awarded by Carrefour for their 2010 chinese new year sales promotion.