Cut-out animation:  Not child’s play

by Baird Media One of a child’s earliest and essential skills, is learning how to wield a pair of scissors, cutting shapes out of pieces of paper and cardboard.  It is this skill that is fundamental to the work of arteur cut-out animators like Erentia Bedeker.  This...

Grief, butterflies and yellow daisies 

by Baird.Media As an only child, brought up by a single mother, Bianca Juliette O’Neil had more than her fair share of loss.  For a long while, until several people very close to her died, she was spared.  Friends and family.  In relatively quick...

Hitting all the right notes

by Baird Media The score for any film must hit the right notes.  A task much easier said than done. A film score is not to be confused with a soundtrack – usually a miscellany of existing songs.  Nor is it the overall sound design.  It’s only when one...

Auteur Animation – an embryonic genre in South Africa

by Baird Media Auteur animation in South Africa, says Diek Grobler, creative director of Ruby & Roach, is in its infancy.  “We didn’t know animation, as children; apart from what was imported.”   Today’s creators, other than Donald Duck and Road...

Not waiting for the phone to ring: The conception of Ruby and Roach

by Baird Media … Ring, ring, why don’t you give me a call? Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all Ring, ring, I stare at the phone on the wall … Yes, these might be the lyrics from an Abba song from toeka’s days but they aptly describe Dorette Nel’s...