Stand-up comedian Carl Joshua Ncube last week held animation workshops at Reps Theatre in Harare.
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Ncube, who is also the chairman of the Zimbabwe Animation Association, told Standardlife&style on Friday that the focus was on the new generation of animators.
“We are making Zimbabwe’s animations more commercial and my thrust as the chairman of the Zimbabwe Animation Association Joint African Animation Group is to make sure our members stop producing work, without making the most of their animation endeavours. My focus however, is on a new generation of animators,” said Ncube.
Running under the theme I love animations; do you? Ncube said the festival which began on Thursday and ended on Saturday was meant for individuals that were young and hungry for success. As part of the festival, the organisers held free workshops to train local animators to be entrepreneurs.
“We have also compiled a lot of the animation work by Zimbabweans into a documentary called Why we don’t make animated movies in Zimbabwe? ” said Ncube.
“Animation is a specialised field, so we worked with a small number of people yesterday [Thursday]. We registered 45 but only 16 people came through.”
Animation is one form of art that has been neglected by Zimbabwean filmmakers leading to consumption of foreign content on children’s cartoons.
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Currently Zimbabwe has a few animators like Tafadzwa Tarumbwa of the Salad Chick fame which is famous for the character Ambivalence.
