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.