Animation & Graphics

In a recent case study, US and Canadian-based VFX and animation creators Zoic Studios, responsible for award-winning effects in film, advertising, games and television, showed how AJA’s Kona 3G cards help facilitate live synchronised sessions using Tweak’s RV-SDI playback and review software...

Among the short films screened as part of the National Film and Video Foundation’s (NFVF) Women in Film festival in mid-August was Genevieve Akal’s Bougainvillea, an inventive and visually stunning exploration of the consequences of repressing one’s true self...

Fourteen years ago, Nuno Martins and Peter den Hartogh took the bold step of establishing a tertiary education institution specialising in the teaching of animation...

According to Glenn Gillis, managing director of Cape Town-based animation and game development studio, Sea Monster Entertainment, the art of storytelling has undergone a revolutionary change since the emergence of social media...

A relative newcomer to the industry, Darkside Studios brings together a number of disciplines under one roof...

From its founding in late 2012, the Primedia-owned Johannesburg-based animation studio The Flying Circus aimed to generate new entertainment content rather than acting solely as a service provider to other production companies and advertising agencies...

From its earliest incarnation as simple drawings photographed in sequence to evoke a sense of movement, to the sophisticated rendering capabilities of today’s computer generated imagery, animation has undergone significant progression and advancement fuelled by both artistic and technical innovations...

While many animated movies set in Africa (The Lion King, Madagascar, Kirikou) have met with international success, African animation filmmakers are struggling to break through international box offices...

ICASA released a Draft IMT Roadmap on 1 September, outlining ways in which to achieve widely available broadband...

Hayao Miyazaki will receive an Honorary Award and an Oscar statuette at the 6th annual Governors Awards...