by Ruan Smit | Apr 6, 2018 | Animation Vfx and Game Cinematic Blog
April is World Autism Awareness Month – and a proudly South African crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo is asking for contributions towards a short film on the topic of autism acceptance starring a unique little hedgehog called Sam. Conceived by Johannesburg-based...
by Matthew | Apr 5, 2018 | Animation Articles, Animation Reviews, Graphic Designer and Illustrations, reviews
Considering most of our lives are moving online, it was only a matter of time until art took the same turn. Digital art and animation have been around for many years, but that used to require large, expensive machines to handle the drawing and animation process. Those...
by Neal Strydom | Feb 16, 2018 | Graphic Designer and Illustrations
Today we have quite a talented individual on our blog: Walt Viviers. He is currently the Creative Director at Menzies Media, and also the person we’ll be talking to about Pixel Art. Trying my hand at some #pixelart I think it's a good start, but more importantly, I...
by Ruan Smit | Feb 2, 2018 | Animation Articles, Honorable Mention
Recently, well, not so recently, came across this awesome account on Deviant Art and if any of you knows Deviant Art as well as you should, you find little gems stashed away in little corners filled with little shadows and every now and then, you find a decent stash...
by Neal Strydom | Jan 26, 2018 | Animation Articles
So I’m going to start off by saying that this is a slightly different interview than we normally would have. In fact, this is more of a shameless punt for a website I’ve found on Artstation and I thought we simply HAVE TO write about these guys on Pixelsmithstudios....
by Ruan Smit | Jan 10, 2018 | Honorable Mention
We had the great pleasure of chatting with a voice actor veteran, Nick Murdoch, straight from South Africa. Nick has been in the industry for ages and worked on some great local and international projects (even one he’s not allowed to talk about yet!). If...