Animation & Special Visual Effects Companies in South Africa

AVA (Audio Visual Alchemy)

We make films for people who aren’t afraid of the dark.

Cape Town

Director: Tyron Kuypers
Senior Animator: Nico Botha
Project Manager: Rabia Lawrence

Chocolate Tribe

Chocolate Tribe is a high-end award-winning visual effects and animation studio specializing in short and long form projects.

Johannesburg

MD: Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt
Executive Creative Director / VFX Supervisor: Rob van den Bragt
Executive Technical Director: Tiaan Franken
Senior Producer: Tracy-lee Portnoi

Indie Village

For the past 14 years we have created commercials & digital content for some of the world’s biggest brands. We handle everything from concept to final delivery in house.

Johannesburg

Director: Anthony Bila
Producer: Dale Love-Ballantine

Left Post Production

Left Post Production is an award-winning visual effects, grading and editing facility in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Cape Town

Editors: Andrew Traill / Daniel Mitchell / Evi Katz / Jade de Jager / Julian Redpath / Paul West / Saki Bergh / Willie Saayman
Grade: Keno Naidoo / Jarryd Duthoit / Craig Simonetti
VFX: Lead by Senior Flame Artist and Creative Director Keno Naidoo

Lung Animation

Lung is a well established boutique style animation studio.

Cape Town

Animators: Arri Reschke
Studio Manager: Jean Mortlock

Mind’s Eye Creative

Mind’s Eye Creative is an independent, award-winning 2D animation studio. We develop and produce animated content which communicates ideas and tells stories.

Johannesburg

MD: Nick Cloete
Head of Production: Jenna Gien

Priest

A Cape Town post-production house with a highly experienced team specializing in Offline Editing of TVCs, Feature Films and Series and offering finishing with Adobe Premiere, Motion Graphics Design, Colour Grading, Compositing, AfterEffects, 2D, 3D Blender and Visual Effects.

Cape Town

The Refinery

Johannesburg & Cape Town

Chairman: Sbonelo Mvuyana / Chairman & CEO: Alastair Orr / COO: Ariye Mahdeb
Head of Features & Television: Ancois Human / Producer: Peta Synnot-Marzetti
Head of VFX: Rory Mark / Producer: Simone Fanti
Head of Colour: Kyle Stroebel / Snr Colourist: Ndumiso Mguni / Producer: Nthabiseng Dlamini
Head of Sound: Charles Singleton

Sinister Studio

Sinister Studio is a high-end Visual Effects, Virtual Reality and Animation studio based in Johannesburg, South Africa. We specialise in technical projects and assist directors in the planning and shooting of these projects.

Johannesburg

Producer: Henriette Van der Walt

UNHINGED Post Production

Unhinged is a purely remote based post production company. We work with anyone from anywhere in the world. Everything happens online!

Cape Town

Founder & Senior Editor: Carol Groenewald
Colourist & VFX Artist: Ric Shields

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