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.
I really like the story there and wish I could see a trailer of it.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Yusif Tagoe, am an animator and currently working on a 2d animation. An African animation based on a local story. I just wish I could get others in the animation who are good to join hands with.