Animation & Special Visual Effects Companies in South Africa

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

House Down Studios

A team of creatives skilfully combining art & technology to make immersive digital content. We produce bold, animated content for brands worldwide, blending unique creativity with global industry standards.

Johannesburg

Creative Director: Ziyaad Jina
Lead Animators: Tebatso Prudence Maketa / Sonali Morar

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

PrettyNeat

Moving Pictures that move people.

Johannesburg & Cape Town

Director: Alex Fynn / Maxime Davenport / Louw Venter
Post Production: (Offline Editor) Damiane van Reenen / (VFX Artist) Nicolai Groudev
Executive Producer: Tassyn Munro

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 Digital Union

We are a collective of innovators and pioneers. Our single-minded mission of always pushing the envelope is what burns at the core of this union. Our talent pool includes highly experienced producers, directors, writers, designers, editors and animators. We are creative media specialists focused on design and animation solutions for television broadcast.

Johannesburg

Co-Founder: Rodney Fraser / Co-Founder & Director: Jono Done
Producer: Julian Sun

The Refinery

Johannesburg & Cape Town

CEO: Alastair Orr / COO: Ariyé Mahdeb
Managing Director: Chris Heaton
Head of Features & Television: Ancois Human

Production Manager JHB: Segopotso Mabitsela
Head of VFX CT: Rory Mark / Producer: Simone Fanti / Head of VFX JHB: Ryan Van Den Berg

Head of Colour: Kyle Stroebel / Snr Colourist: Ndumuso Mguni / Snr Colourist: Liam Traynor / Producer: Nthabiseng Dlamini
Head of Sound: Charles Singleton / Producer: Nyeleti Furumele

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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