ABIKU

This was my first 3D animated movie. I made it in 2004.
The movie seeks to educate people about the cause of the "tormenting" sickle cell anemia disease; a hereditary disease that afflicts mostly people of African descent.

Among the Yorubas of South West Nigeria, there is an age long phenomenon of a reincarnated being, a spirit in the form of a child who must repeatedly die and be reborn. In this movie Abiku is the evil spirit responsible for such deaths.
In this animated movie, the Abiku demon spirit is the villain character who after being offered the expected sacrifice, mocks the family and still heads to kill its prey.
It is the first part of a proposed ambitious project, a feature length fully animated African movie.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Abiku
• Evil spirit
• Ogbanje
• African movie
• Yoruba
• Igbo
• Nigeria
• Death
• Wole Soyinka
• Abulu
• Animation

[FABIYI]

this is a potential educational material for yoruba children about our culture.......abeg try contacting NTA and others

[iyere59]

Thanks Fabiyi, We are working with a couple of groups in Nigeria and in the USA; who have strong Pan African interest. The movie won "BEST ANIMATED MOVIE PRIZE" at the 2005, 2nd Abuja film festival in my country Nigeria and came to the notice of The Nigeria Film Corporation, Jos.

[eudenikiti]

gostaria que tivesse a tradução para portugues!

[94damilola]

cool, i might be doing this for my school (in scotland) next thursday for our multicultural night :)

[21wf]

What tools are you using for your 3D animation? If it costs you any money, you can move to free open source alternatives like Blender, GIMP, etc.

Also, you can build a super computer cheaply using Linux cluster, for fast rendering. If you need help with Linux cluster, feel free to contact me.

Good job on this short movie. I know Nigeria is slow to adopt new technology, but don't be discouraged. I myself built an open source live TV streaming. Hopefully TV stations would show interest soon.

[olawodele2010]

hehehe...talent my brethren, talent!!!..very subtle educational material and as one with an interest in public health education, i already made up an accompanying message for people in the real real villages about sickle cell anemia that exhibits itself as "abiku"....oh my days!!!...i see myself contacting u in the nearest future!!!...lol...