LOCAL ANIMATION STUDIOS GET A BAFTA NOD
Stickman film gets nomination for a BAFTA. PICTURE: WEB LOCAL animation studio Triggerfish Animation Studios has managed to score a nomination at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Children's Award for it's production of Stickman . The Cape Town based studios which also created two of the highest-grossing South African animation films of all time , Adventures in Zambezia and Khumba , will go against Disney’s Counterfeit Cat , Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball and Aardman Animations’ Shaun The Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas . According to head of production at the studios Mike Buckland, the nomination is a “big deal for them as they are up against big time animation producers like Disney and Cartoon Network”. “We worked in collaboration with UK based production company Magic Light Pictures on the production since May 2014 as they produced the scripts and the story board for the animation...