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. Everything else was done in South Africa by Triggerfish and we delivered the final product in October 2015.
“It first aired on Christmas Day on BBC One with close to nine million viewers having seen it on that day,” said Buckland.


Directed by London-based Jeroen Jaspaert and co-directed by local Daniel Snaddon, 26-minute short film is an adaptation of picture book The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler about a Stickman who lives in the family with his Stick Lady Love and their three children. It features the voices of British actors Martin Freeman as Stick Man, Hugh Bonneville as Santa and Jennifer Saunders as the narrator.
The film has won seven international awards, including the best animation at both the BANFF World Media Festival and the Shanghai International Film and TV Festival, as well as two British Animation Awards.
but the biggest one we’ve received thus far is the Le Cristal for a TV production at animation film festival Annecy.
“We are currently working on another animation with Magic Light Pictures called Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl,” said Buckland. - article published in The Times (15/11/2016)

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

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