On December 6th 2008, Kenyan animators and animation enthusiasts turned
out in record numbers for the Animated: Kenya seminar which was held at the Sarit Center in Nairobi.
On Friday 7 November, the soccer cartoon, Supa Strikas, got a television make-over on SABC2. The 13 half-hour animation episodes are based on the popular print version of the comic which .is distributed as a monthly 24-page insert into the Sunday Times and as a weekly one-page strip in the Sunday Times Magazine.
In Cape Town, we focused on the development phase and concept art stage of animation. A perfect example of how important this stage is to production was provided by Shy the Sun.
For the first time in its 30 years running, an animated script has been accepted into the Independent Film Week. Khumba is one of three South African projects
I am really pleased to announce the launch of the new Animation SA website, a collaborative effort from a committed team of volunteers from Animation SA and iaminawe, to provide the new online face for Animation in South Africa.
Junes Animation Xchange meetings in both Cape Town and Joburg were packed with great work and an overall focus on animation in gaming. A few local companies showed some of the interesting animation orientated stuff being used in interactive applications, mobile games and an awesome new movie from the Blender foundation.
Ever wondered how some of those big-screen special effects look so real without a trace of CG? It's likely someone like Steven Saunders
designed, sculpted and built it from real materials.
Johannesburg, South Africa-based Jock Animation will use Maximum Throughput's Sledgehammer NAS (Network Attached Storage) system to support their work on a full-length animated feature film currently in production.
Character Matters has just finished working on Africa's 1st full length featured CGI animated feature, 'The Lion of Judah'. The movie, commissioned by Animated Family Films in the United States and produced by Sunrise Productions, is an 80-minute, 2K, cinema production with all the bells and whistles we have come to expect from the major studios.
LAST week, DStv's Cartoon Network invited a bunch of media and education professionals to be judges at its nationwide animation generation competition at Gold Reef City, in Johannesburg.
In a move designed to promote and grow the film sector in Gauteng, the Gauteng Film Commission (GFC) has facilitated the formation of a consultative forum, comprising expertise and resources from
