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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.

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top January 12, 2010

Current Projects

TV Series: Uit die Bloute

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 will be broadcast on KYKNET as a channel branding series.

You Tube you tube, pitch episode...

top  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.

padda

padda

You Tube you tube, padda sing...

top   JUNE 26, 2010

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Monthly Animation Evenings
Monthly animation screenings and discussions at Flat 4, Clarenden Court, Arcadia, Pretoria. 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...

ABC

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.
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Little Bang
AGENDA (detail)


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