From Cape Town to Lagos, Animation blossoms.
Revolution Media, conveners of the annual ground breaking Lagos Comics and Cartoons Carnival have announced their plans in collaboration with Image Animation Studios- A Cape-Town, South Africa based powerhouse for multimedia communications to present a 3 Day workshop in 3D communication from Friday 18th January till Sunday 20th January 2008. The workshop is being supported by the culture activist organisation- Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) and stage design and lighting maestros- Total Consult Ltd.
The training will be led by Oladeji Victor, a director of Image Studios, Cape Town, S.A. and founder of Animation for Africa- an initiative geared towards training hundreds of Africans in visual effects and animation by the end of 2010. Deji has worked on several projects and adverts with Character Matters Animation Studio, Ambient Animation Studios, Telegenic Production and some of his work can be found in Issues of Faith - a television Magazine program on SABC 1, a TV commercial for Bank PHB, TV Commercial for Kenyan Power Authority, SABC 1 Anthem, and Cosmopolitan - Fashion Video amongst others. The workshop course content will cover introduction to 3D modelling with the Maya interface, understanding of textures, bump maps and the Photoshop workflow, lights and rendering, principles of animation and project workflow.
Oladeji, a representative for Autodesk will be launching a campaign in Nigeria later in March 2008 to create awareness about the latest Autodesk products. His most recent work has been on the feature movie "LION OF JUDAH" which is still in post - production and is expected to be out in America this Summer. He has been privileged to work with the likes of Tom Roth (from Disney) and Eric Lessard (Dream works) among other South African Animators.
“Participants will be provided with lecture notes, Maya PLE 8.5, Training DVD’s, Software, and free Registration for internet resources”, he says, “We are planning to open up the 3D animation industry in Nigeria; so that it can compliment the home videos and service the visual effects industry worldwide while we produce our own (Nigerian) animated feature Films”, he explains further.
Towards this end, training and internship programmes are being planned through the year in a three phase plan that will culminate in a media institute that offers specialized courses in 2D, visual effects and 3D animation. Animation for Africa’s mandate of empowering African animators is already bearing fruits with their training programme at the media village in Kalkbay, Cape Town where they have just graduated a batch of students and will be taking on a fresh batch in February 2008. The programme is designed to involve three months of intensive training and three months of internship with established animation houses in South Africa at a highly subsidized rate, much cheaper than what obtains in Canada, the United States of America or India for that matter where they have partners. Already, four Nigerians have benefited from this arrangement and Oladeji hopes to increase that number by ten fold in the present year.
Sewedo Nupowaku of Revolution Media is particularly excited about this collaborative effort at the very start of the year and is convinced that it portends an exciting year for the entire industry. His media and entertainment company had made efforts to stand in the gap as regards capacity building for the animation industry in November 2007 by holding an introductory workshop on animation at their 3rd annual Lagos Comics and Cartoons Carnival which exposed the wide enthusiasm people had for animation. “Now through this collaboration with Image Animation Studios, we can take that initiative to a whole new level and quicken our dreams for mass empowerment”.
The three day workshop will run from the 18th till the 20th of January 2008 at the CORA House, 1st Floor, 95 Bode Thomas Street, Surulere, Lagos and will cost N15,000.00 per participant. “Interested participants may mail revolutionmedia@yahoo.com, revolvingmedia@gmail.com or call 017416644, 017451990, 08067421215, 08033000499 for more information”, Nupowaku, who’s company is currently developing a dedicated television programme for comics, cartoons and animation called Action TV, reeled off with gusto, “This workshop will be the first in a series of collaborative capacity building projects between Revolution Media and Image Animation Studios”, he offered, grinning from ear to ear with infectious enthusiasm.
-Ayodele Arigbabu.
http://www.designpages.blogspot.com/
dreamarts.designagency@gmail.com
The training will be led by Oladeji Victor, a director of Image Studios, Cape Town, S.A. and founder of Animation for Africa- an initiative geared towards training hundreds of Africans in visual effects and animation by the end of 2010. Deji has worked on several projects and adverts with Character Matters Animation Studio, Ambient Animation Studios, Telegenic Production and some of his work can be found in Issues of Faith - a television Magazine program on SABC 1, a TV commercial for Bank PHB, TV Commercial for Kenyan Power Authority, SABC 1 Anthem, and Cosmopolitan - Fashion Video amongst others. The workshop course content will cover introduction to 3D modelling with the Maya interface, understanding of textures, bump maps and the Photoshop workflow, lights and rendering, principles of animation and project workflow.
Oladeji, a representative for Autodesk will be launching a campaign in Nigeria later in March 2008 to create awareness about the latest Autodesk products. His most recent work has been on the feature movie "LION OF JUDAH" which is still in post - production and is expected to be out in America this Summer. He has been privileged to work with the likes of Tom Roth (from Disney) and Eric Lessard (Dream works) among other South African Animators.
“Participants will be provided with lecture notes, Maya PLE 8.5, Training DVD’s, Software, and free Registration for internet resources”, he says, “We are planning to open up the 3D animation industry in Nigeria; so that it can compliment the home videos and service the visual effects industry worldwide while we produce our own (Nigerian) animated feature Films”, he explains further.
Towards this end, training and internship programmes are being planned through the year in a three phase plan that will culminate in a media institute that offers specialized courses in 2D, visual effects and 3D animation. Animation for Africa’s mandate of empowering African animators is already bearing fruits with their training programme at the media village in Kalkbay, Cape Town where they have just graduated a batch of students and will be taking on a fresh batch in February 2008. The programme is designed to involve three months of intensive training and three months of internship with established animation houses in South Africa at a highly subsidized rate, much cheaper than what obtains in Canada, the United States of America or India for that matter where they have partners. Already, four Nigerians have benefited from this arrangement and Oladeji hopes to increase that number by ten fold in the present year.
Sewedo Nupowaku of Revolution Media is particularly excited about this collaborative effort at the very start of the year and is convinced that it portends an exciting year for the entire industry. His media and entertainment company had made efforts to stand in the gap as regards capacity building for the animation industry in November 2007 by holding an introductory workshop on animation at their 3rd annual Lagos Comics and Cartoons Carnival which exposed the wide enthusiasm people had for animation. “Now through this collaboration with Image Animation Studios, we can take that initiative to a whole new level and quicken our dreams for mass empowerment”.
The three day workshop will run from the 18th till the 20th of January 2008 at the CORA House, 1st Floor, 95 Bode Thomas Street, Surulere, Lagos and will cost N15,000.00 per participant. “Interested participants may mail revolutionmedia@yahoo.com, revolvingmedia@gmail.com or call 017416644, 017451990, 08067421215, 08033000499 for more information”, Nupowaku, who’s company is currently developing a dedicated television programme for comics, cartoons and animation called Action TV, reeled off with gusto, “This workshop will be the first in a series of collaborative capacity building projects between Revolution Media and Image Animation Studios”, he offered, grinning from ear to ear with infectious enthusiasm.
-Ayodele Arigbabu.
http://www.designpages.blogspot.com/
dreamarts.designagency@gmail.com
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