Animated movies screened today were from all around the world. Some of these movies, which ranged from 5-10 minutes were Banana, Homo Volans, Elephant goes to kindergarten, long uncomfortable silence and Life boat. Life boat is the animated movie that won the “Best animated movie” in last year’s Animafrik film festival. He is from Croatia. In this movie, the stages of life are presented as a man in a boat marries and have a son; the boy grows up, marries and leaves the parents. The woman dies and the man is left all alone.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Animafrik Film Festival-Day 3
Screenings continued today with animations from Ghana,germany,Egypt and Nigeria.
Some of the animations are The African way,Anna Blume,The frog story, Paper mouse,Leila and kono.The animated movies ranged from 5 to 10 minutes.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Animafrik Film Festival-Day 2
Day 2 of the film festival continued with screenings of movies from the carribean. About 12 animated movies which included 2D and 3D were screened. The length of the movies ranged from 5 to 10 minutes. Some of the movies were Born to be alive,la music berce,premier voyage,migration assistee,le trop petite de prince,the challenge to death,tong etc.The language was mainly french.
Whilst some of the movies were funny,others were really silly and others did not make sense at all.For instance,"The challenge to death" was silly.It was about a guy who mashed himself in a blender. His spirit drunk his mashed body and came back to life.... ewwwww, nasty. Yeah, exactly my reaction.
One of the movies i enjoyed was "tong", a 3D movie. In this movie,a scientist called tong developed a remote that made objects dissappear. His tyrant boss who did not treat him well wanted his help to get rid of a "big stone" in space heading for earth. Tong made the stone dissapear. But guess what! he made his boss dissapear too and got all the recognition and fame. Even though it was short, it was interesting.
I also enjoyed "Born to be alive".
Whilst some of the movies were funny,others were really silly and others did not make sense at all.For instance,"The challenge to death" was silly.It was about a guy who mashed himself in a blender. His spirit drunk his mashed body and came back to life.... ewwwww, nasty. Yeah, exactly my reaction.
One of the movies i enjoyed was "tong", a 3D movie. In this movie,a scientist called tong developed a remote that made objects dissappear. His tyrant boss who did not treat him well wanted his help to get rid of a "big stone" in space heading for earth. Tong made the stone dissapear. But guess what! he made his boss dissapear too and got all the recognition and fame. Even though it was short, it was interesting.
I also enjoyed "Born to be alive".
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Animafrik Film Festival-Day 1
The International Animation Africa Film festival is an annual festival that is held in Ghana. It seeks to stand in league with other Animation festivals like Siggraph,Afrimations and the likes.This is the second time it is being held but my first. The film screening started on the Monday 23rd August and ends on the 27th August,2010 6:30 each night.
The Film screened on Monday was titled "The tree of the Spirits" animated by Cilia Sawagado, Concordia University,Canada.It took 5 years in the making of the 45 minute animated movie.
Cilia said she was inspired to make this movie when she visited a village in Burkina Faso. All the trees had been cut except for a Baobab tree. The villagers have preserved this tree because they believe it is a very special tree. The very first person who made the village a settlement had a dream while lying under the tree. In the dream, a man told him to start settlement as it will be blessed.
The animated movie features a boy and girl who fought against "evil" guys who wanted to cut down the tree with the help of the spirits.
Tools like SoftImage and Maya were used in the modelling,rendering and animating of this movie.
I really enjoyed it even though it was in French. on a one on one,One of the students, Marie-An said animation takes passion and a lot of hard work. In other to be successful,one would need to have an inner drive as animation has its own challenges.
The Film screened on Monday was titled "The tree of the Spirits" animated by Cilia Sawagado, Concordia University,Canada.It took 5 years in the making of the 45 minute animated movie.
Cilia said she was inspired to make this movie when she visited a village in Burkina Faso. All the trees had been cut except for a Baobab tree. The villagers have preserved this tree because they believe it is a very special tree. The very first person who made the village a settlement had a dream while lying under the tree. In the dream, a man told him to start settlement as it will be blessed.
The animated movie features a boy and girl who fought against "evil" guys who wanted to cut down the tree with the help of the spirits.
Tools like SoftImage and Maya were used in the modelling,rendering and animating of this movie.
I really enjoyed it even though it was in French. on a one on one,One of the students, Marie-An said animation takes passion and a lot of hard work. In other to be successful,one would need to have an inner drive as animation has its own challenges.
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