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TOONSKUUL

After 40 years of the introduction of animation in Ghana, the growth of the local animation industry is minimal, it has not taken advantage of its rich culture, population, the internet, terrestrial television, improved technology in film, among many other factors to grow the industry. We believe that Ghana can be a major production service market in Africa for animation production houses and broadcasters in Europe and North America

Animation Africa hopes to harness the opportunities available to promote, grow and sustain the local animation industry, make it profitable and internationally accepted

In three years, Animation Africa through its toonskool programme organised workshops nationwide. Animation Africa has expanded its toonskool project into an institutional support and training programme.

Accra JULY 2007, Animation Africa designed an animation training programme to train 20 art graduates over a six week period. It was designed to offer the graduates an opportunity to diversify their art and explore beyond traditional art boundaries.

JUNE 2008. An introductory Toon Boom Workshop

NOVEMBER 2009, Animation Africa hosted Alan Lewis of Polywood studio, UK, a leading 3d animation training organisation in Europe in running Ghana’s first Certified Maya introductory session at the Alliance Francaise for staff of Ghana Television and a selection of students from KNUST and NAFTI.

Kumasi. With the support of Alliance Francaise, Animation Africa in November 2009, organised a 2 day animation workshop with a section of multimedia students of the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University Kumasi

Winneba between 2008/2009 Animation Africa has organised 3 animation workshop in scriptwriting for animation, music composition for animation and animation production, for the Creative Art department of the University of Education, Winneba

Tamale 55 students of the Tamale Polytechnic spent 3 days to explore animation techniques and principles. Working under the direction of lecturers and resource person from Animation Africa the participant produced 4 animations in mixed techniques on the subject of democracy and good governance.

Currently we offer internship to graphic art students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Takoradi Polytechnic to help them explore digital art and media. In the next 2 years, we hope to use this programme to train more young people and help them set up production units to produce animation for the local market and export

toons@animationafrica.org