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15 August 2007
editor & sketch artist
Diek Grobler
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Recent Projects
Festival artist at the Inniebos Arts Festival
Diek is the Festival artist at the Inniebos Arts Festival in Mmapumalanga in July 2012. The theme of the festival is "die kat kom weer", and Fopspeen will be animating a painting by Mr. Grobler to be used as an ad for the festival.
 March 7, 2012
Voske en die Gentse Gravinnetjie
Diek Grobler spent 90 days in Ghent, Belgium, and played around with some old fashioned drawing-by-drawing animation techniques. The result is a continuing project about a little fox who wants to get ahead in the world.
March 7, 2012
Uitstalling 29 Julie tot 17 Augustus 2011, Pretoria.
Animasie, digitale drukke, beeldhou, musiekvideo's, tekeninge, musiek. Opening deur Cherylene de Jager,
29 Julie 2011, 18h30 vir 19h00. Tot 17 Augustus,
Pretoria Kunsvereniging,
Mackiestraat 173. Versnaperinge geborg deur Vrouekeur en Chehan Ideaneers.
KYKNET TV Series: Uit die Bloute
Fopspeen’s first animated television series (the first to be broadcast, that is).
And in Afrikaans nogal. Jakobus Johannes van Alleman (aka Seun) is a twelve-year old middle class Afrikaans boy who has dreams of one day becoming a documentary film maker, like Michael Moore. For his twelfth birthday he receives a video camera from his ouma, Ouma Martie Pansegrou. His mother thinks he is being spoilt, Ouma Martie thinks investing in a child's future is a necessity.
“Uit die Bloute” is Seun’s first attempt at documentary filmmaking. He is making a film about the Afrikaner, hoping that it will be sent into space, or buried in a time capsule, or something – so that in 100 year's time, people of the future, or the aliens from Alfa Centauri, will know who and what the Afrikaners were.
The series is broadcast on KYKNET as three minute animation channel branding episodes.
See video clips...
You can follow Seun's blog, the lead character, at seun-van-alleman.blogspot.com
June 26, 2010
Music Video: “Die Padda wou gaan opsit”
Afrikaans music veteran, Gert van Tonder is re-recording some of his hits from the seventies with current Afrikaans bands. In “Die Padda wou gaan opsit” he teams up with Afrikaans rapper “Snotkop” to funkify this classic Afrikaans children’s song. And Fopspeen is making some moving pictures for it.
 you tube, padda sing...
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Monthly Animation Evenings
Monthly animation screenings and discussions. Proceedings are orchestrated by Diek, who compiles a program around a specific theme or technique, and leads the discussion. Read more...
Fopspeen Moving Pictures wins a Big Brass Bell in the Ukraine
Fopspeen Moving Pictures is a small animation studio that packs a punch: Animators Diek Grobler and Charles Badenhorst just returned from the Ukraine, where their short film “Little Bird ABC” received the award for the Best Animation for Children at the prestigious KROK International Animation Festival. Read more...
SAFTA Special Mention Award
Animation in Short film for "Agenda"
SAFTA – The South African Film and Television Awards recognise achievements in the local film and television industry. The event took place Saturday 7 February 2009 at the State Theatre, Pretoria, South Africa. Read more...
AGENDA (detail)
South African Artists Take Animation to a New Level
Online article by Fransi Phillips
Jan 10, 2010
With animation films made from junk, artists Marinda Du Toit, Diek Grobler and Charles Badenhorst reverse the rules of consumerism.Links for clips discussed: Little Bang and Agenda. Read more...
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