Hi everyone,

This month's event is postponed due to lack of manpower.

To continue the monthly tradition, AnimationXchange Cape Town is looking for dedicated volunteers to help run the event.

The theme for our Johannesburg xChange in March is Scriptwriting and Storyboarding. We have some fantastic speakers lined up so be sure not to miss this one!

The first Johannesburg Animation xChange for 2010 will be held on the evening of 25 November.

Our first meeting in quite some time will be held on Thursday 26 Nov 2009 at 6.30pm for 7pm. The get-together is kindly being hosted at Touchvision's Randburg offices.

For all those of you living in Cape Town, come along to Michaelis this Thursday at 7 pm for

Attention all animators in Cape Town! We're kickstarting Xchange this year with an spine-chilling display of web intelligence.

My sincere apologies to all!

The final Xchange for Joburg this year will take place on the 20th November at Wits University Campus of Digital Arts.

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.

August's show-and-tellers were the literary sort.

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.

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.

The March meeting of Animation Xchange showcased some progress from a few local productions currently in the pipeline from different studios and sound was the common theme of this months event.