“We executed a memorandum of understanding with GSW
to arrange and to participate with the training of animators with the provision
for them to consider hiring them at the completion of the course”
Quoted from
Carimac Director and Professor of Communications Policy and Digital Media,
Hopeton Dunn by the Gleaner on Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Life after Kingstoon has been great for at least one
Animation Studio, Reel Rock GSW,
who have now secured a very large Animation contract with Walt Disney as stated
in the article “Local
animation firm reels in another big contract”,
published Wednesday, September 04, 2013, The Jamaica Observer.
More encouragement for the animation peeps in
Jamaica after the inaugural KingstOOn Animation Conference and Film Festival in
June 2013 as described in my blog article
entitled “Inaugural
KingstOOn Animation Competition a boost to local Animation Industry - State
Minister Julian Robinson give Graphic Artists the chance to Feel this Moment
Pitbull and Christina Aguilera Style”.
Reel
Rock GSW previous international work as a
sub-contractor to Studio Red Frog in France to animate the Disney Junior France
kids show Quiz Time must have been a huge recommendation for them. I don’t have
Cable or access to Canal+, so I can only guess that this show’s either in
French or English Dubbed with French Subtitles ….or vice versa. The action is
animated according to script and sent back to Studio Red Frog when they add in
the Audio Dub, completing the project.
The name of the contractor or even the animation
project’s name or even the Cartoon remain secret, but what’s known is that it’s
a thirteen (13) month animation contract, which start in March 2014 and
requires fifty two (52) episodes! Also it seem it’s a cartoon in English and
with a very big animation Studio, as can be derived from Director of GSW Wayne
Sinclair partial quote in which he commented quote: “……… international exposure
and calibre of the co-production partners will officially put Jamaica on the
map”.
Not only is this big news for Reel Rock
GSW but it also means that they’ll need a
WHOLE lot of animators. To be precise, they’ll need to ramp up from twelve (12)
to seventy five (75) animators, basically an extra sixty three (63) animators
fresh from training as described in my Geezam blog
article entitled “KingstOOn
Animation Festival and GG’s “I Believe in Jamaica” Animation Training – Genesis
of Animation Outsourcing”.
So for those of you following my postings on
Animation, just Google “Animation after KingsTOON” to get tips on how to do
basic animation work and how to market your work online. Who knows, you may end
up become as success and as well known as Reel Rock GSW,
who just only started work in September 2013 are one of three (3) animation
studios in Jamaica who are STILL in a ramp up stage, both in terms of studios
as well as Animators who are in short supply!
According to JAMPRO (Jamaica Trade and Invest)
Animation represents a US$222.8 billion industry in 2013 and Jamaican can get
in on the animation-outsourcing shtick by taking advantages of animation
work usually farmed out to countries
like India, South Korea, and the Philippines!
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