african animation

Thursday, April 27, 2006

update from Alfred

Hello everyone. Animators. Pals.

My name is still Alfred Muchilwa. I am animator from
the aa2.0 series... and im off to Stuttgart, Germany
tommorrow fro the screening of TOTO's JOURNEY!

Seriously, up till a few hours ago I wasn't really
sure that i'd make the trip. I had to hustle left
right and center to get money for the plane ticket.
Just managed to make the amount needed an hour,or so
ago. But it was worth it (speaking in future tense
here)

So catch up with all the action on www.itfs.de. In
addition, I will be attending a special effects
festival called fmx (www.fmx06.de). I want to see all
those folks from ILM and DREAMWORKS animation in
person. Apparently Nina Paley will be there too! (most
o' y'all don't know her, she was on AA 1.0.

After that, well I go to 2 other cities and run my ass
back home.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

some more research on African animation...

If anyone is going to be in Texas over the month of July, look out for the SAS Conference, which this year features a paper on Iranian Animation by Hosseini-Shakib, from Farnham, Surrey...
Society of Animation Studies

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

some more news...

Recently met up with Cilia Sawadogo at the Tricycle, London.

She was giving a workshop and showcasing her film. It was great catching up with Cilia who has been busy travelling to Ghana, and France. It was also a brilliant opportunity to meet other practicing artists. filmmakers and animators. Victor Opeyokun, animator of animated film "Rooted", which has been shown in Europe. He has given workshops at Anime Caribe, you can read more at
the guardian
I look forward to hearing from Victor about any African animation news...

Monday, March 13, 2006

well done Tessa Comrie... winner of the Creative Commons South Africa Digital Arts Competition

more updates from the AA2 team, it seems like another animator from the Africa Animated Project, Tessa Comrie, has continued pursueing her animation and won "Common-sense" - to read more about this click here
commons-sense

Thursday, February 23, 2006

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

Friday, February 17, 2006

anim_clip

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

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

Friday, February 10, 2006

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

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

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...

Monday, January 30, 2006

alf and nathan (another AA star!!)...

more news from the AA2 guys

Ok so the emails are begining to flood in... more news from
Pippa Lugg: SA
"while down in Cape Town I went to see Sunrise Productions who are working on an Animation Feature...
...I've recently met a girl in Port Elizabeth, where I live, who is newly in PE from CT and used to work for Triggerfish. She's very keen to collaborate on an Animation so I'm very pleased that I'll have her to work with until AA2 links up again."

hope that my pilot internet project will act as a proposed model to apply in Africa... Distance Web Based Collaborations... still may not be as good as the real thing...mmm

Alfred Muchilwa: Kenya
"Me? Yes I still animate once in a while, was verythrilling to see the africa animated 2 stuff on TV. Itlooks (and sounds) good.
Well a few months back an Egyptian animator reachedme.. he hasbeen researching African Animation too. "

Alfred - do you have a web site??

In the meantime you can find out more about alfred's goings on round the world...
http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/15festival/home/home_en.asp

alfred... all across the globe at the15th VideoBrasil International Electronic Art Festival

Saturday, January 28, 2006

"motif of life" team, me and...a blonde babe from Zim?!?, Durban 2005

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Update : Searching African Animators!!

Got an update from Maina; everyone will be pleased to know that his group's animation has also been selected to be shown at flickerfest... Well done!! It was great to see that Maina is planning to continue making animations in Kenya, and I can't wait to see some more output from the dude... and apparently the AA launch was a blast, unfortunately I couldn't make it, which was a shame especially because African philosopher and main man Moses was there...

Check out the link for more info on "The Motif of Life"...
http://www.flickerfest.com.au/programme.asp?proid=173

28/01/06
Just updating the news from everyone in reply to my e-mail-
Jacquie Trowell: South Africa
I'll just quote ... here's the news from SA!!
"well, my news is that i’m still expecting to se you in berlin next month.
beyond freedom has been selected as one of TEN short films in competition at the berlin international film festival.
this is pretty cool.....
meanwhile, the Animation Production Training Initiative is underway here.
it’s the first time gov orgs have got together to support animation. (as far as i know)..."
for more info on other projects by Jac check out:
http://www.janewarren.com/directors.htm?sm%5Bp1%5D%5Bcategory%5D=137&sm%5Bp1%5D%5Bpersistent%5D=1&

Cilia Sawadago: Burkina Faso/ Canada
"On my side, I'll start a new film in the next months, just got word about some funding for preproduction.
I'll coming to London on from the 2nd to the 5th of march 2006 to the African film festival there...
...I presented the AA1 and AA2 at the Montreal National Museum of Contemporary Art during a conference on African Animation that I did there last night. "

Animation Training Production Initiative 2006 : The governement intiative in South Africa involves a collaboration between Anamazing and the Department of Art and Culture, the National Film and Video Foundation, the National Electronic Institute of SA, and SABC. It is currently calling for applicaitons from 13scriptwriters for children's stories, a later date will be announced for the call for animation directors. Keep an eye out for more news....

Montreal National Museum of Contemporary Art:

Go to : http://www.macm.org/en/education/conferences.html

Monday, January 23, 2006

blogs...mmmm

searching through other blogs... this looks interesting
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2005_11.html#001458

http://www.atjoburg.net/?p=80

http://angriest.blogspot.com/2005/09/takalani-sesame.html

more info on Cilia's talk in Montreal

http://www.fpsmagazine.com/2006/01/african-animation-lecture-and.php

Searching for All African Animators

Just got an e-mail from animator Godfrey from Tanzania, both a talented artist and animator... thought of a plan... ask him to redirect all his friends, and fellow animators to post some comments on african animation, and their thoughts on it... I hope anyone that stumbles across this blog will be inspired to add a line or two....
anyway in the meantime check out Godrey and Alfred's animation, TOTO's Journey on

http://www.semwaiko.s5.com/

http://www.adgf.net/adgfblog/?page_id=4

now showing at Flickerfest

http://www.flickerfest.com.au/programme.asp?proid=172

night for now....