Pilot film

#1

The company I’m working for, Cape Town (South Africa)-based studio Triggerfish Animation, has recently completed the 4-minute pilot for their animated feature film entitled Zambezia.

[http://www.zambeziamovie.com/](http://www.zambeziamovie.com/)

Over the last year, a core creative team has been working on characters, environments, and the various technical challenges of bringing feathered CG birds to life in a teeming bird-city.

The pilot animation itself, Welcome to Zambezia, was produced with a small team of animators over a three month period as a proof of concept, using Lightwave 8.5 and Messiah for the character animation.

  Zambezia is set to go into full production in early 2007, to be released mid-2008.


  Please check out our website, any crits and comments on the pilot would be very welcome.
#2

I like what I saw, although it’s a bit too low res. The landscapes are stunning, the tree is awesome. Can’t wait to see the final version;)

#3

Looks really promising. Animation movies produced in africa are way overdue. Its nice to see that we are finally producing something of this magnitude and quality. All the best

#4

Really nice work! And VERY nice to see the screen grab of messiah:studio on the Characters page. Is it rendered in messiah too?

Fred

#5

Double wow. Where did you guys come from!?! What an amazing ambitious project. I’d love to find out more about your pipeline and why/where/how you chose to do it the way you have.

#6

beautiful work. I’d be very interested in seeing more.
Only thing that made me mildly suspicious was the character building with extrapolation. Seemed a tad forced. But the visuals made up for that!

#7

Nice work! And don’t look so surprised Wegg, I told you there were stealthy messiah users about.

#8

Beautiful work & great concept.
I can’t wait to see the full finished version…

:thumbsup:

#9

Great work Mike ! Nice animation and beautifull landscapes. Good characters too. I wish you and your team a lot of fun working on this project. Cheers !

P.S. Hi to Kate, Darryn and Nicki :thumbsup:

#10

You know these guys in South Africa? I hope they’ll tell more.

#11

great work! i like it:thumbsup:

#12

Were you involved with “Always Take the Weather With You”? This reminds me of it and your avatar certainly does. I love Jungle Beat!

Batchem

#13

I wrote to them, and they told me they rendered it in Lightwave.

#14

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