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CHRIS THURMAN: Devil’s in the detail — in animation and in journalism
Recently I had an opportunity to visit Triggerfish Animation Studios in Cape Town. It’s an exciting space, producing computer-generated feature films and TV shorts that have received a raft of awards and an Oscar nomination. After successfully adapting Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and Julia Donaldson’s The Highway Rat and Stick Man — commissioned for consecutive BBC Christmas specials by Magic Light Pictures in London — Triggerfish is hard at work on another Donaldson screen adaptation, Zog. There are more features in the pipeline to follow Adventures in Zambezia (2012) and Khumba (2013). These two are among the top five highest-grossing South African films; but as human resources manager Cathy Bradley pointed out while leading our group around the premises, animation is so expensive it will take another two or three international hits to secure the firm’s future.Making films is generally costly, labour-intensive and painstaking, but animation requires another level of dedication, ...
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