The Technology-based Art of

Animation in the Philippines

GBongga
Animation
-to animate
-to make something appear to move
by creating a series of drawings
What is Philippine Animation?

Larry Alcala
Gerry Garcia’s Animation Works

Gerry Garcia
Gerry Garcia’s Animation Works

Gerry Garcia
Outstanding Achievements
of Animators
Philippine-made Animation

Sulundong
-Winner, Best Regional
Entry in Animahenasyon
2010 Philippine Animation
Festival. Directed by
Jerome Alcordo and
Ionone Bangcas
Philippine-made Animation

Mutya
-Grand Prize, Animahenasyon
2009, Manila, Philippines;
Gold Prize, 12th TBS Digicom
Philippines; Finalist,
Professional Shorts, SICAF
2011, Seoul, Korea; Included
in Petit Animac 2012,
Catalonia, Spain.,
Philippine-made Animation

Animahenasyon is an annual animation festival

and competition held in the Philippines. ... It has
the aim of harvesting the talent and creativity of
Filipino cartoonists and animators. It is considered
as an annual celebration of the animation industry
in the Philippines.
Philippine-made Animation

Dayo: Sa Mundo ng
Elementalya
-Pinoy Animation: 2D/3D
Animated Film. One of the
first locally produced 3D
animated film in the
Philippines. Released
December 2008.
Philippine-made Animation

Andong Agimat
-a 4-minute animated film (2011),
featuring Arnold Arres’s Andong
Agimat going up against a
pickpocket.

A full-lenghth movie adaptation of

Arnold Arres’s Agimat (Talisman,
2013) is the latest animation
entirely produced, directed, and
starred by Filipinos.
Philippine-made Animation

Pasintabi
- Pasintabi by Jeff Capili,
Animahenasyon 2010, Best
Animation Winner, is an animation
film that tells the story of Reb, a
ten-year-old boy who lives with his
lolo in Albay. Reb’s lolo, an
albularyo, is fond of telling tales of
magic and mystery.
Philippine-made Animation

Pasintabi
- Reb find his lolo’s stories
interesting but passes them off as
fiction until he finds himself in the
middle of what he assumed to be
an imaginary world.
Filipino Animators
hired by Animation Companies

The Simpsons animator Jess Ruben Aquino’s

Española animations
Did you know?

Anthony Ocampo
Did you know?

Nelson Bohol
Did you know?

Armand Serrano