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As part of its 20nd year celebration, Top Draw Animation Studios—creator of “My Little
Pony”, “Tom and Jerry kids”, and “Penn Zero: Full Time Hero”, proudly showoff its
creative faculties to the media for the first time.
Top Draw Animator Studios are internationally acclaimed and proudly Filipino 2-D
animation studio. The animation studio had an accumulated production of 2,000 and
half hours of television animation under their bunner.
One of these latest projects that everyone enjoyed is the “My Little Fony” which’s shown
in theaters globally.
It was founded by Wayne & Stella Dearing in 1999 w/c, only started with one computer
in their living broom. Since then it grew into a full service production studious with
expertise in multiply digital platform.
With its big projects, you might be surprised that its internationally known studio
is only located in Ortigas, Manila City.
Top Draw has over 500 employees composed of directors, animators, and artistics who
also contributed to its successor.
The studio is not your extraordinary work place as it is complete with
theatre, café, wellness center, and recreation facilities so employees
wouldn’t feel toxic despite the crazy deadlines. Top & Draw also offers
training programs for those who dream of pursuing a career in animation.
The traineers undergo an immersive training program and after they finish
their course, a job already awaits them.
Stella Dearing, founder and Senior Executive Vice President also insists that animation
can also be a carreer.
“Animation can be a career. Because before, in my time we were very limited to what
course you could take,” said Estella.
“But with all, with multimedia, with Internet, self-learning—animation can be a career.”
Top Draw has been working with top animation studios in the world such as cartoon
NETWORKING, Disney and Warner Bros. Animation to name a few. – Angela Clariño,
Manila Times
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1. Personification
Personification attributes human nature or human qualities to abstract or inanimate objects.
For example, we often use phrases like the howling wind, dancing leaves, time flies etc. Some
examples of personification in a sentence are:
The opportunity knocked at his door
The plants in her house silently begged to be watered
Lightning danced across the sky
The wind howled in the night.
2. Metaphor
A metaphor is used to imply a comparison between two things that have something in common
but are in general different from each other.
Some examples of the usage of metaphors in a sentence are as follows:
It is raining cats and dogs
He is the star of our class
Life is a highway.
Her eyes were diamonds.
3. Simile
A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things that are different from each other but
have similar qualities. These are generally formed through the usage of the words ‘as’ or ‘like’.
Some examples of similes in a sentence include:
He is as brave as a lion
Her expression was as cold as ice
Swim like a fish
As light as a feather
4. Alliteration
Alliteration is a sentence that consists of a series of words that have the same consonant sound at
the beginning.
Some popular examples of alliteration in a sentence include:
She sells sea shells on the seashore
A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies
All Adam ate in August was apples and almonds
Barry bought a book to bring to the backyard barbecue
5. Onomatopoeia
This is a figure of speech that is used to express a sound. To be more precise, it involves the use
of words that imitate the sounds associated with the action or object referred to i.e. hiss, clap etc.
Some examples of onomatopoeia include:
The buzzing bee flew over my head
The stone hit the water with a splash
The boulder hit the ground with a flump.
Leaves rustle in the wind and are whipped into the air.
6. Hyperbole
A hyperbole is a figure of speech that consists of an exaggeration. It is the usage of exaggerated
terms in order to emphasize or heighten the effect of something.
Some examples of using hyperboles in a sentence include:
I have told you a million times to not touch my stuff!
She has got a pea-sized brain
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
She’s as old as the hills.
7. Assonance
Assonance Alliteration
Assonance refers to the use of similar Alliteration refers to the use of words with
sounding syllable or vowel sounds in a similar phonetic sounds, including consonant
sentence. sounds and, according to some, even vowel
sounds in a sentence.
The words with the similar syllable or vowel The words containing similar sounds are placed
sounds need not necessarily be placed close together in the sentence.
together. They can be spread across the
sentence.
For example: For example:
They seemed to like the green Peter Piper picked a peck
peas salad. of pickled papers.
