Mune gets SAFTA Award!

In Feb 2011 I heard the happy news that Mune had won the SAFTA (South African Film and Television) Award for best animation. This is a photo of the Golden Horn Award. Very Shiny and we're very proud. It also serves as a deterrent for potential muggers while walking down Kloof Street at night.

ImagineFX FXpose feature

Here's a feature I had in the Expose section of ImagineFX Feb 2011.
(click for larger view)

Playing in Painter

My first time palying in Painter (X) and I am loving it!
See bellow for the results. (click for larger view)

Mune!

Time for an update! This is the poster for my animated short film Mune. It's about people with cities on their heads trying to find love. And last week it's been nominated for a SAFTA award for best animation!!!! So excited!
The following is a list of festivals Mune has played at:

• Youth Talent Film Festival
  Port Elizabeth, South Africa
• BUT Film Festival
  Breda, Netherlands
• FLExiff 2002-2022
  Sydney, Australia
• Anim'est
  Bucharest, Romania
• Banjaluka 2010
  Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Africa in the Picture
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2nd Bi-Annual for School Films
  Tunis, Tunisia
• Rencontres Henri Langlois film festival
  Poitiers, France
• 6th Athens Animfest 2010
  Athens, Greece
• Design Indaba Film Festival
  Cape Town, South Africa
  
• International Short Film Festival 2011
  Chennai, India
  
• Cape Winelands Film Festival
  Cape Town, South Africa
  
• Animayo 2011
  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  
• 7th MCM Filmfest 2011
  Venlo, Netherlands
• Independent Days 11|Filmfest
  Karlruhe, Germany
• National Arts Festival 2011
  Grahamstown, South Africa
  

Awakenings Artwork

Yay! Again yay! I am finally done with this picture. I have gotten some advice on using textures which I put to good use. Click the image for a larger view. This was going to be the cover for Awakenings 2, but yeah.. I think it's a bit too busy and not striking enough, so this is gonna end up as a poster in the book.

Animation Again!

Wow, I am animating again... actually studying animation. These two ladies are some of the Characters I plan to animate for a 5 minute short. It's gonna be a challenge.... but I find that I love scriptwriting and pre-production.... now if only I could get an army of Jesca- clones to do the actual animation for me while I go have a drink down the road...

Anime Edition

Recently the Sunday Times printed an anime inspried version of it's weekly magazine. All the artwork was illustrated by South African anime artists- incl. yours truely. Best part was: the magazine was printed right to left like a manga comic- nice going!