Sandcrawler vindicates Lucas' Asia move
[SINGAPORE] Right in the heart of Buona Vista, dozens of digital-animation and visual-effects specialists - many of them Singaporeans - are busy working on Hollywood blockbuster movies such as Avengers 2 and Transformers 4.
Some others are putting the finishing touches to a full-length animated feature film produced entirely in Singapore.
All this activity was abuzz within a futuristic-looking, horseshoe-shaped building in Fusionopolis called Sandcrawler, which is Lucasfilm's regional headquarters and its first studio outside the United States.
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