egyptian animation festival _ university of minia

the university of Minia (Egypt), is hosting an animation festival from the 6th -9th April... I will be visiting, giving a talk on my research into African animation, the UNESCO Africa Animated Project and my involvement on it... as well as an overview of the computer generated animations produced at Bournemouth University, the technology we use and the philosophy behind our course - that is a merger between the arts and technology. Thanks to the University of Minia, and in particular my new found Egyptian animator friend, Mohammed Ghazala!! I hope that this visit will encourage the exposure of African animation, and at the same time prove to be a personal journey to discovering the animation of another African country, Egypt!! I'm really looking forward to it - I invite any African animators to send me examples of their work, should they want to show their work at this event. You may contact me at pcallus@bmth.ac.uk

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on line interview with animator pippa lugg

Pippa has just forwarded me this link... anyone who is interested in reading about her work and experience on AA click here...
http://animationblock.typepad.com/editorial/animated_lives/index.html
the pages also provide other information related to animation

from Zim, Uganda, and South Africa... animators carl, diana, and greg!  

some more pictures of the Africa Animated Experience in Durban 2005 

deep in thought... me and the african philosopher  

more news...

So here is some more news from Peter in Kenya... peter participated on the Africa Animated project which ran in Kenya - his work is great and I recommend you check out his link!

Peter Mute: Kenya
"Gado and I have done a small project together for
our local public broadcaster here in Kenya ...
a copy of it is on my website (www.yebikenya.com)...
...KCCT college back here in Kenya wanted to find out about the processes
they'd have to undergo to become a certified
animation training center. "

SOunds exciting - lets hope that Kenya will have its training centre set up soon!! This could mean that Kenya could be moving towards a greater exposure of the medium at large...