Woohoo!! Our 2nd Film Festival Official Selection!! 2020 is off to a Great Start!! Our Nkoza and Nankya Short Animated Film, “Enjovu, The Elephant Tail” has been selected by Lift-Off Global Network !!
We received our festival laurels!! We are super grateful! Here is to dreaming really Big!! Friends, Never give up on your Dreams ~ We invite you to join us on this journey by subscribing to our YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/user/NkozaandNankya ~ Kindly share with your family & friends. Thank you for your support!!
Woohooo!! I am a 2019 Ugandan Diaspora, Animator Award Recipient ~ On behalf of the entire Nkoza and Nankya team, I would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Ugandan Diaspora Network Awards organized by Ronnie Mayanja in partnership with Dr. Maggie Kigozi. Even though I was not able to make it to the event in person, I am eternally grateful to you all for sharing in this moment to celebrate the work my team and I have been doing to champion the love for our rich and diverse Ugandan cultural heritage and languages, through Nkoza and Nankya. Thank you so much for this recognition and for shining a light on the value of using storytelling and animation in promoting our beautiful country, Uganda. I am confident that if we all continue to work together, we will help our children grow up knowing and loving their Cultural Heritage and Languages. I was represented on stage by My loving maama and the talented Bruno Sekandi Louis, our Lead 3D Artist ~ I invite you to join us on this journey by subscribing to our YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/user/NkozaandNankya and downloading our Nkoza and Nankya App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SowlComix.NkozaandNankya ~ Mwebale nnyo nnyiini!!
I am excited to share with you this Short animated film, that I Wrote, Directed and Animated, from the Nkoza and Nankya Universe, entitled “Enjovu, The Elephant Tail.” Maama Nankya shares a bedtime story with Nankya. It’s based on an old folk tale and Luganda nursery rhyme we used to sing as kids growing up in Uganda, with an awesome moral of teaching kids to never ever be ashamed of who they are. We encourage you to build up your little ones and inspire them to celebrate their uniqueness and how God created them. Enjoy it with your little ones so they can learn a cool Luganda word: Elephant called Njovu in Luganda.
Download our Nkoza and Nankya, iOS and Android app, a tool you can use to help your kids learn Luganda in a fun way and to learn about our rich and diverse Ugandan cultural heritage, through storytelling.. It features Luganda lessons, education Luganda games, videos, songs, and stories. Do please give it a try and share it with your family and friends. We will continue to add more fun content.
Our books are available to order as both Paperback and Kindle versions. They offer a Fun way for Kids and Parents to learn Luganda, and Celebrate our Rich and Diverse Ugandan Cultural Heritage.
Thank you so much to the Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival for screening our film. We are so honored to grace your screen in Edinburgh, Scotland as an Official Selection.
We are super grateful to Noitom for supporting us with their Perception Neuron Motion capture Suit tech, and to Reallusion for their generous support with the iClone line of tools which made this film a reality. Thank you to Faceware Tech, Inc. for their facial mocap tech as well and their support from the very beginning. We appreciate you all!!
A special thank you to the entire Sowl Studios team (www.sowlstudios.com), and to Diana Lwanga (Mukwano Gwabato) for gracing us with her vocal talent and music.
Exciting!! This is my first impression and test with the new Free Megascans from Quixel, which is now part of the Unreal Engine and Epic Games. I used the Meadowlands Pack. I also did a test with the free plugin for UE4 that Otoy made available earlier this year.
This is a quick test to show how well Zbrush 2019 is working on an iPad Pro with Duet. I am using my PC and Duet extends my monitor to the iPad Pro screen. The Sculptris Pro feature is working nicely!! I can’t wait to create more models in Zbrush 2019 using my iPad Pro!! ~ Spare a minute to Subscribe to My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SolomonJagwe
In this video, I show you how to render an animated sequence in Unreal 4 Engine using the Free Unreal Octane Render plugin. It’s exciting to finally be able to render the Sequencer output using Octane. I will share more videos as I continue to use Unreal together with Octane.
OTOY and Epic Games are proud to announce the official release of OctaneRender for Unreal Engine 4, bringing cinematic GPU path-tracing to millions of Unreal Engine users. This release brings together two of the industry’s leading 3D pipelines, giving artists tools to create cinematic immersive experiences in a wide range of applications from gaming and visual effects to architecture and real-time previsualization.
I tested the new Octane Render 2019.2 B2 engine with a scene from The Adventures of Nkoza and Nankya, to see if there were any speed improvements. In this video, I share my first impressions and thoughts. I will share more about my experience as I continue to test it. I am looking forward to the plugin versions of 2019.2
Our books are Available to order as both Paperback and Kindle versions. They offer a Fun way for Kids and Parents to learn Luganda, and Celebrate our Rich and Diverse Ugandan Cultural Heritage. Order the Nkoza & Nankya Comic Book #1 with a bonus Luganda illustrated Alphabet at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1719891419 ~ Nkoza & Nankya Comic Book #2, with Luganda and Swahili Animal names at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1098905172 ~ and Princess Annitandra, Volume 1, Nankya and Nkoza’s best friend at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1098578783 ~ Mwebale nnyo!!
Video showing my drawing workflow in Procreate Using an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil – Concept Bird for a Children’s Book Illustration – concept design, drawing and painting ~ More Videos to come ~ Spare a minute to Subscribe to My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SolomonJagwe
