Jozi Zoo Episodes

Managed to pull some recordings from VHS tapes, adding these for archival purposes as they're not available anywhere else I believe. This was the first animated show I worked on, between 2003-2005. I believe Jozi Zoo did 100 episodes. A friend from varsity, Angel, was working for comedian John Vlismas in Joburg, and she said he had an idea for a show and I might want to meet him, so I did. I did the original Jozi Zoo pilot (uploaded separately) for John Vlismas who did the voice and had the original idea, who took it to Cecil Barry at Red Pepper who got it going at eTV - a South African TV station. Rapid Phase (Rico Schacherl and Stephen Francis) did the updated character designs and mini pitch deck, and Stephen Francis wrote the scripts. I forget who the voice actors were. By the way, nobody told me the show was going ahead, I found out while I was on an animation training course in Durban run by UNESCO called 'Africa Animated! 2.0'. One of my buddies said they saw the show on eTV :| lol?!? I never received any royalties, payments (maybe I got R4k actually later on for the pilot) or credit for that, though I later did start helping out with the episodes’ creations at Art Attack Studios in Johannesburg run by Andy Wood and the belated Gerhard Smith - both superb animators. At some point I started getting paid. I then moved over to Red Pepper and worked from there, and eventually worked from home. I started getting full episodes to make myself, some of which are towards the end of the video. I'd get a script and audio track and would make the episode from that, drawing stuff in Photoshop and animating the episodes in Moho. Art Attack used a combination of drawn animation by hand on a lighbox, scanned, drawn and coloured in Flash on computer and sometimes in Photoshop, and comp'd in After Effects. I think I animated 16 episodes in total on my own, no storyboard or animatic, straight to production lol. Helped out on many more episodes made at Art Attack. Made one 5/6 minute episode every 2 weeks by myself, and at Art Attack it was a full episode every week, was crazy going. Another animator and generalist at Red Pepper named Nathi was also doing full episodes by himself later on, they’d show episodes weekly on Sat morning at 9am on eTV I think on its Craz-e kids programming segment, alternating between Nathi and my episodes once Art Attack bowed out of doing so many of them. Was super burned out by the end but grateful for the experience I guess, trial by fire.