Name: Cape Town International Animation Festival 2021
Start: 30/09/2021 10:00 PM +00:00
End: 10/10/2021 09:59 PM +00:00

Autodesk recently launched their new branding and continue to bring breathtaking scenes and characters to life for film, TV, and games.
We think making a mountain out of a molehill isn&rsquo;t as effective as making a mountain out of Maya, so we bring you the experts in the Media and Entertainment industry - they know their Maya Stuff.&nbsp;
The Autodesk speakers we have lined up for you are:-Jason Martinsen - an Animation Mentor and an experienced senior animator on games such as Jak and Daxter, Unchartered 2 and 3, Features such as Hotel Transylvania 1 and 2, Cloudy 2, Storks, Ferdinand, Ice Age and more -The topic of Jason's talk is "Animating timing and texture"
Roland Reyer will present the new features and updated workflows in Maya 2022 with a special look at the outcomes for your business. Maya 2022 is all about helping artists work more efficiently and collaboratively. Marking the arrival of the USD plug-in for Maya, this release also delivers su

Autodesk

At Netflix Animation we want to entertain everyone, and make the world smile. The best way to do that is to build a place where creative visionaries can do their best work without compromise. We love animation in all forms, and wholeheartedly support our global community of storytellers across all genres, tones and techniques.
1 October 2021: 5PM Cape Town / 8AM Los Angeles - Meet with our recruiters to ask questions or schedule 1:1 portfolio reviews.

Netflix Animation

Touchvision has a long standing reputation as a trusted partner to media industry professionals, production companies , post-production, animation, architecture, and visual effects industries. Touchvision supports its clients with expert pre and post-sales advice and training, enabling our customers with the best tools, turning their amazing ideas into viable businesses.
Touchvision&rsquo;s roots have grown in over 34 years&rsquo; experience of supplying and supporting software and hardware infrastructure for the media industry. We unleash our wisdom in the service of your creativity.
Our services have adapted to meet the rapidly evolving needs of today&rsquo;s design and production professional. We supply premier vendor products from AJA, Chaos Group, Adobe,Renderman, Farmers Wife,Tangent, ToonBoom, and more, all uniquely tailored tools to accommodate streamlined and scalable pipelines.
Touchvision also offers reliable, connectivity for collaboration and finished content delivery via a robust fibre network through our partnership with MediaCloud.
We love it when our clients achieve their creative vision. If you can&rsquo;t find what you need, or want professional advice in choosing a solution that best fits your requirements, contact Leigh Pearson &ndash; leigh@touchvision.co.za.

Touchvision

The world is changed by those with the audacity to dream and those with the courage of their creative convictions. CityVarsity is what happens when you match talent and passion, with the right skill set, the right attitude, and the audacity to make it in The City.
CityVarsity is where your vision of who you can &ndash; and will be &ndash; is nurtured by high-end industry leaders and academic staff. They are committed to steering you towards becoming the creative professional you were born to be.
It&rsquo;s your turn to embrace your unique place in the world with an accredited qualification that is industry-recognized from CityVarsity.
Diploma in Animation:
The Diploma in Animation aims to provide students with the knowledge and practical skills required to perform effectively in the animation, animated visual effects, and visual art production industries. The purpose of the qualification is to provide students with the relevant academic exposure, practical skills, and professional attitudes as are appropriate to this market area. On successful completion of the programme, graduates will be able to seek careers in freelance, contract, or permanent staff within commercial companies of varying sizes. The graduates will have the competencies to perform animation and work relating to animation within various fields including but not exclusive to; drawn animation, stop-frame puppetry fabrication and animation, 3D computer animation, pre-production for film, and post-production for film.

CityVarsity - School of Media & Creative Arts

Film Cape Town is a joint initiative between the City of Cape Town and the Cape Town film industry. It&rsquo;s a focused project, designed to make the most of the City&rsquo;s amazing locations, diverse talent pool and world class infrastructure to create a thriving and sustainable industry that&rsquo;s the crown jewel of the continent.
From crimson sunrises to twilight sunsets, Cape Town is blessed with some of the best light in the world. It&rsquo;s also one of the few places on the planet where you can watch the sun both rise and set over the ocean.
Add favourable weather conditions to this for most of the year and long hours of twilight in summer and it&rsquo;s easy to see why we claim having the best light in the world.

City of Cape Town - Film Cape Town

STADIO's 3D Animation Programme provide students with a sound knowledge base together with specific procedures applied to animation to pursue further studies in this field, or enter this particular niche market.
Since this is a vocational programme, a balance is maintained between theoretical knowledge &amp; practical abilities. Complementary to this, the programme offers opportunities for learning through exposure to the animation industry by way of compulsory work integrated learning. Once qualified, students may pursue a career as a 3D modeler, colour key artist, concept artist, 3D designer or 3D texture artist.

STADIO

Ranked 11th in the world by The Animation Career Review, With world class campuses in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We have a laser-sharp focus on animation, while drawing on local and international knowledge and experience from related sectors such as art, design and film. This focus gives our students a competitive advantage, because they are able to refine and develop the skills which the animation industry specifically seeks.

The Animation School 

&nbsp; Our Story &nbsp; In 2013, Executive Director Esther Pearl founded Reel Stories, the only female owned &amp; run non-profit film program for women in the country led by professionals. Throughout her many years working in the film industry, Esther grew hyper aware of the severe lack of diversity, often finding herself the only woman in the room. Esther created Reel Stories seven years ago to build equity in the media industry, paving the way for women &amp; girls to make their own content and enter media careers. Reel Stories empowers our participants with the skills, experience, and connections to succeed.
As Reel Stories&rsquo; popularity and partnerships grew, what was initially a one-week summer program expanded into an organization with year-round programming, weekend workshops, and various events, including film screenings and fundraisers. Reel Stories transitioned from &ldquo;Camp Reel Stories&rdquo; to &ldquo;Reel Stories&rdquo; to emphasize that we aren&rsquo;t simply a camp, but an organization that provides opportunities for women year-round to succeed in not only the film &amp; media industry, but in any field they choose to pursue. Reel Stories doesn&rsquo;t just teach filmmaking- we teach women to create their own media, view current media critically &amp; thoughtfully, and aspire to leadership in their field.
The young filmmakers we work with are brilliant and courageous. They come from diverse backgrounds and hold strong opinions. It&rsquo;s an honor that they choose to spend their time with us and as much as we are training them to be content creators they are training us to see the world through their eyes.
In January of 2021, Reel Stories officially merged with Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), a community hub for media makers in the Bay Area and across the country, providing access to media making training, technology, and mentorship, and platforms for diverse and engaged makers and producers to collaborate, build their careers, and to support social change. Reel Stories continues to provide our programs &amp; events, including our flagship summer filmmaking programs, but now our devoted community will also have access to the incredible resources BAVC has to offer!

Reel Stories powered by BAVC

Building a career in animation can be tough. The Triggerfish Academy is here to help. We offer introductory courses in animation and are developing a wide range of content to assist you in all aspects of animation production and the business of animation.
For bursaries: Please sign up for our newsletter to find out when the next call for applications will be launched.&nbsp;
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academy@triggerfish.com
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Triggerfish Academy

Think limitless creativity&hellip;
Maximise your creative output and bring more projects to your audience faster with the processing speed and certified software you count on. Whether you&rsquo;re in multimedia, animation, or game development, you need a machine you can rely on to transform your imagination into reality.&nbsp;
Essential in the new world, inclusivity, diversity and innovation are held in high esteem by Lenovo &ndash; with our mission being to ensure that Smarter Technology is accessible to everyone, no matter who they are and where they're from and we won't give up until we achieve this.&nbsp;
Technology is a revolution, and the leaders are you and Lenovo.&nbsp;

Lenovo

Modena Design Centres (Pty) Ltd has earned the prestigious Platinum Tier status as an Autodesk reseller partner operating in the Southern Africa region.&nbsp; &ldquo;Customer validation is a key to achieving Autodesk Platinum Partner status, and a confirmation that Modena Design Centres, Modena Media and Entertainmnet and our partners, have complied with the exacting and rigorous standards of delivery required in serving the Autodesk customers.&nbsp; The Platinum Tier recognises Autodesk partners who deliver the highest levels of value to their customers. Autodesk reseller partners earn Platinum Tier status by demonstrating rich industry expertise, fulfilling demanding Autodesk training and certification requirements and sustaining the highest customer satisfaction requirements. Modena&rsquo;s expertise spans across a number of professional design industries including architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), product design, manufacturing and mining and media and entertainment. With branches throughout Southern Africa, Modena has over 70 highly skilled personnel, who, with the combined expertise and experience, can effectively analyse needs, recommend, implement and lend support with Autodesk design technology solutions. 
Modena Media and Entertainment also offers Production Management, Rendering solutions, Creative design tools and <a href="https://www.modena.co.za/modena-recruitment/">Recruitment services</a>. Branches are in Johannesburg and Cape Town&nbsp;

Modena Media and Entertainment

Torchwood is a literary and scouting agency representing screenwriters and directors, in live action and animation, and scouting for producers worldwide. With roots in London and Dublin and offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, Torchwood offers their clients unparalleled access to the global screen industries. Managing Partners Aoife Lennon-Ritchie and David Kayser have a combined twenty years&rsquo; experience representing above-the-line talent negotiating and advocating on behalf of their list of emerging and established talent. Torchwood fiercely believes in the power of storytelling and the importance of empowering creatives to do what they do best by nurturing and protecting careers.
Aoife also runs The Lennon-Ritchie agency which sells International and film rights for authors and for publishing houses including Penguin Random House South Africa, Pan Macmillan South Africa, Jonathan Ball Publishers, and Duck Creek Press, New Zealand.&nbsp;

Torchwood Literary and Scouting

Calling all you new breed creatives setting your sights on lighting up the Media and Entertainment industry. At Modena recruitment we view your creative talents as an asset of great value to the right Organisation. We have industry leading companies looking for competent, talented candidates for internships, apprenticeships and key creative positions.
A partnership with Modena Recruitment offers:\
<ul>
<li>Permanent and contract placements</li>
<li>Extensive Engineering, Construction, Architecture, Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Entertainment recruitment experience</li>
<li>Sourcing multiple professionals with scarce skills</li>
<li>Nationwide and international recruiting</li>
<li>Interviewing and short-listing</li>
<li>Response handling</li>
<li>BBBEE Level 2 contributor</li>
</ul>

Media and Entertainment Recruitment

Wesgro is the Official Tourism, Trade and Investment Promotion Agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape. Our divisions include Tourism, Trade, Investment Promotion, Research and Film &amp; Media. &nbsp; The Cape is a region of unlimited potential, and this translates into unlimited opportunity. Whether you&rsquo;re interested in unique travel experiences, investment, shooting a film or exporting to Africa and the rest of the world, our province has something for you. Let us help you uncover these opportunities. &nbsp;
The Wesgro Film and Media Unit uses its network of relationships with stakeholders along the entire film and media supply chain to help local and international film crews create world-class films, commercials, and animation and gaming productions in Cape Town and the Western Cape.
The Cape Town and Western Cape region is a sought-after film destination. Major international and local productions are drawn by the wide range of locations, exemplary services and studios. We assist with production in the province, including regulation guidance and finding co-production parties.
If location is everything, Cape Town and the Western Cape have it all. Think towering mountains and rolling waves, bustling cityscapes and desolate landscapes, and much more. Some of the most popular locations in the Western Cape are found in Cape Town&rsquo;s CBD, with a variety of urban looks and various types of architecture, as well as stunning natural beauty. We are so diverse that almost any country in the world can be replicated within a two-hour radius of Cape Town. The only limit is your imagination.
An inspiring place to create.

Wesgro

Over the 20 past years, IFAS has worked with multiple public and private partners in South Africa and in more than 30 African countries, prioritising the development of skills and ecosystems for innovation in the cultural and creative industries sector. With each project, IFAS develops unique collaborations with the shared goal of making the exchanges between the countries within creative industries more rewarding, complementary, dynamic, innovative, creative and ambitious. The Institute facilitates and implements these collaborations with key players of the French creative industries in training, innovation, business development and public policies to design programmes with a win-win approach.

IFAS

Animation South Africa is an industry association representing the interests of animation and VFX professionals.
Our activities include:
- Make trading conditions more conducive to creating and/or maintaining work opportunities and increase domestic and foreign revenues. - Initiatives which transfer and develop scarce and critical skills - Conduct/participate in research. The findings of which accurately reflect and inform future interventions - Initiatives which result in more commercial activity, including the exportation of South African animation products and services

Animation SA

Road to Commercialisation

The Producers of VIVO dish on Producing an Animated Musical during a Pandemic and much more

Lisa Stewart

Michelle Wong

The Producers of VIVO

Camille Leganza talks about her experiences in production and as a script supervisor on films like The Incredibles and Iron Giant

Camille Leganza

Camille Leganza from Netflix

Live Stream - A presentation on Story Structure, Storyboarding, Staging and Composition and Visual Storytelling

Nathan  Stanton

Tales from the Story Trenches.

Live Stream - The Kwezi Team were the winners of the Road to Annecy Pitching Competition. They talk about their experiences in bringing SA's most loved comic to screen.

Annemarie Du Plessis

Clyde Beech

Jaco Smit

Loyiso Mkise

Team Kwezi - Road to Annecy Pitching Competition Winners

Live Stream - IFAS shares information on training opportunities in France for South African animators

Isaac Mogajane

Lesego Vorster

Melissa Dusart

Cecile Blondel

IFAS shares information on training opportunities in France for South African animators

Live Stream - The ins and outs of starting a studio with Deidre Jantijies, Esther Pearl, Kia Simon &amp; Mounia Aram

Esther Pearl

Deidre Jantjies

Kia Simon

Mounia ARAM

The ins and outs of starting a studio with Deidre Jantijies, Esther Pearl, Kia Simon & Mounia Aram

Live Stream - Lucy Heavens, Nic Smal (Cape Town series creators) and Kent Osborne (Adventure Time/SpongeBob SquarePants) talk about the career journeys that have led to the series production for their new Disney Channel show.

Agenda

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Anna Berthold

Brian Nitzkin

Dina Amin

Esther Pearl

Kia Simon

Marcin J. Sobczak

Mounia ARAM

Nathan Stanton

Yasaman Ford

Annemarie Du Plessis

Aoife Lennon Ritchie

Colin Payne

Craig Motif

Deidre Jantjies

Isabelle Rorke

Kay Carmichael

Dipopaai Dipopaai

Lesego Vorster

Lucy Heavens

Nic Smal

Nick Cloete

Pete ODonoghue

Rob Van Vuuren

Ross Lelliott

Sthe Sthe

Isaac Mogajane

Ariane Suveg

Krissy Cababa

Kerrin Kokot

Camille Leganza

Dylan Sisson

Mary Glasser

Roland Reyer

David Mason

Kaydee De Villiers

Greig Cameron

Mike Buckland

Ant Silverston

Clyde Beech

Jaco Smit

Melissa Dusart

Marcia Gwendolyn Jones

Lisa Stewart

Michelle Wong

Gennie Rim

Loyiso Mkise

Andre Jansen van Vuuren

Cecile Blondel

Kent Osbourne

Kaya Kuhn

Jason Martinsen

Ingrid de Beer

Clea Mallinson

Erica Milsom

Michael Warch

Tim Keller

Tendai Nyeke

Helen Saric

Jacques Bock

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