Siyayinqoba Beat It! Is a youth oriented HIV/AIDS television show looking for innovative animated public service announcements to drive Siyayinqoba's viewers towards testing for HIV, being informed and always using condoms!
When Toper Taylor, President and COO of Cookie Jar, addressed the Cape Town animation industry a few months ago I couldn't gauge his actual impression of us. He seemed polite yet reserved.
Animation is an industry which has been dominated by the West. In Africa, the concept is relatively new, but this year nine animation films from Kenya will be screened at the prestigious Africa in Motion (AiM) festival that will run 23 October - 2 November 2008 in Edinburgh, UK.
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Animation has the ability not only to entertain and educate, reaching across cultural and racial boundaries, but also to generate employment, and attract investment.
Our 3D-animated AIDS awareness PSA, "Shower", has been invited to screen at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in the FIAE 2008 - 3rd International Festival of Erotic Animation, with Sex, Love and Eroticism as the key themes.
Sunrise Productions, makers of Africa's first feature length animated film The Legend of the Sky Kingdom and the award-winning Jungle Beat series, is using PipelineFX's Qube!
The animated escape for a tight-squeeze economy South Africa's economy is facing a tightening of the belts, and with it budgets in the marketing and advertising industry. Roger Smythe, JHB MD for Masters & Savant Worldwide states that advertising agencies and marketers may have huge budget walls to climb when faced with the production of television commercials; especially when television time slot prices across most of the broadcasters continue to climb to record highs.
The Minister of Environment, Planning and Economic Development with the Cape Film Commission officially launched the Runway Film Resource Centre a strategic Skills Training and Development interventio
The animation industry in South Africa may be a fledgling one but if the quality of work that's coming out of the Mother City is anything to go by, then its an industry that is about to take off - in a big way.
After graduating from the Royal College of Art with the prestigious Man Group Drawing Prize, South African artist/animator Jane Cheadle has been awarded positions in two sought after Artist-in-Residen
Art is often used as an outlet for political or societal expression. William Kentridge’s animated short film and associated series of charcoal drawings, entitled History of the Main Complaint, are precisely that:
Apart from the fact that Blender is
extremely good software, I also view it as a very strong enabling
technology: Blender is able to provide people – who would normally not
be able to afford 3D t
Triggerfish Animation has completed a 14-minute episode of an exciting new children's series entitled Me and Jessie D for Studio 125, a production company based in Alabama.
As a brand that every South African knows, Five Roses once again takes the lead in the hot beverage industry, with an animated commercial that demonstrates how it has brought new tea flavours from around the world to its consumers.
A new South African animated series will use offbeat comedy to encourage viewers to analyse their behaviour and take steps in reducing their risk of HIV infection.
With the final entry date fast approaching, those in the advertising and marketing industry are preparing for yet another Loerie festival in Margate, however the past year has seen a dramatic increase
Animation Director Brenton Green masterfully brings to life the vision of the Draftfcb creative team, Rob McLennan, Mike Wilson and Byron Liatos for their client Mag-Lite.
Anamazing workshop's Backyard Shorts, a collection of 13 locally animated short films produced by their in-house Animation Production Training Initiative (APTI), will start showing on SABC 2 from the
Motion capture technology recently pioneered in South Africa by leading commercials animation studio, Masters & Savant, has started to change the face of the South African animation landscape.
