02/04/2023
While setting up our station I caught this moment when Andrew Kaggia first saw his name after setting up.
At that time I wondered what was going through his mind. I wondered whether it was the 19/20hour days that he'd work on this project.
Whether it was the 18 months in which he worked on this project forsaking all other.
In the second image, this lady was so impressed with our animation that she went and brought the founder of ENTA a SVOD platform with an emphasis on African and Kenyan content to come talk to us.
The way she talked us up to the founder you'd think she was our sales rep. But isn't that the beauty of having your work speak for itself?
It was also here that I saw how many people have heard or know of Andrew's work but had no idea of who he is and how he looks.
Image number 3, these two wondered whether this was a Kenyan production. We also had lots of people ask us whether this was a game. Something that had been throwing us off. The lady in the third image started warning guys not to mention anything about it being a game cause of how we'd cringe at the comparison.
We finally figured and narrowed it down the culprit to being our style of animation. It occurred to us that most animations we see tend to be highly stylized and very cartoonish. And that most guys tend to go for photorealistic animated characters.
Image number 4, Wambui Kairo passed by our booth. Wambui Kairo is a very active member of the Kenyan film industry. I first met her back in 08/09 during the KFTPA (Kenya Film and Television Professional Association) stakeholders meetings. Most of them used to happen at Shalom House courtesy of Peter Mudamba who was an official then.
Peter Mudamba happens to be one of voice actors in Terastorm.
Image number 5, 6 & 7 captured the interest and excitement from guys listening to how the animation was done and what it took.