Philippine animation
[7] In 1946, Antonio Velasquez, father of Philippine comics, said in an attempt that he was paid to write a script for an animated feature film based on his famous character Kenkoy, but the project was abandoned.
For example, José Zabala-Santos and Francisco Reyes produced Juan Tamad, a six-minute animated short film serves as an advertisement for Purico cooking oil, based on the famous Philippine folklore character of the same name.
Later in early films have been introduced by Severino "Nonoy" Marcelo, a cartoonist who was hired by the government and worked in animation at the National Media Production Center beginning in 1977, collaborated with Imee Marcos and Zabala-Santos by creating the first-ever Philippine full-length animated film titled Tadhana (1978), a commissioned work which originally conceived as a television pilot and took production in three months.
[1] The success of Ang Panday led to broadcasting two animated series in the following year: Captain Barbell, based on a komik superhero of the same name by Mars Ravelo and Jim Fernandez, aired on RPN, clashing with Garccia's Ang Panday for broadcasting competition;[19] Darna, based on a komik superheroine of the same name by Mars Ravelo and Nestor Redondo, released by GMA Network.
[6] Began in the 1990s, topics of Philippine animation have been significantly shifted from an emphasis on satirical and historical events to everyday issues and identities that reflects their reality to Filipino people.
The series's premise revolves two distant cousins, Phil, from the San Francisco Bay Area, and Jack, from the Philippines, who live with their uncle, Tito Dick, in south-suburban Daly City.
Co-produced by Koch Entertainment[25] and ABS-CBN International, it has been in development since mid or late 2005 and was produced in Macromedia Flash throughout the series on a Windows XP model.
[26] It was began airing on Myx TV, but the series was concluded in 2011 completing two seasons with sixteen episodes due to generally low-rated and critically derided, though it built a small cult following from its reputation in late 2016 based on remixes of its theme song on YouTube, which became an internet meme.
[27] In 2008, Garccia's creation was later followed by another theatrical animated film, Urduja, was top billed by Cesar Montano and Regine Velasquez as voices behind the lead characters, premiered in local theaters.
The film follows a group of children: Abet, Tyrone, and Marco who finds themselves in a parallel universe that is the subject of revenge by Albion, a creature who lived in Calixto since he was a child.
In 2015, Carl Joseph Papa's feature-length animated debut Manang Biring, a black tragicomedy about an old woman with a terminal cancer who wishes to spend time with her family in Christmas until her death.
[37][38][39] Liongoren stated the hope for creating a "Filipino style when it comes to cartoons" and noted that the Philippines has a huge animation industry "that does work for foreign projects.
Borromeo's directorial debut, Distortion, an experimental non-narrative silent animated film made in RPG Maker MV engine, set in the fantasy world that slowly descending one-by-one.
He conducts research about the filmography of RPG Maker that existed, one of these included the web series Slimey (2011) and Atis's Gaze (2016) as well as short films.
[50][51]At the same year, Papa's psychological drama science-fiction Iti Mapukpukaw (2023), revolves an animator without a mouth (Carlo Aquino) prompted by his mother (Dolly de Leon) to visit his uncle, which leads to the return of an alien he encountered in childhood intent on taking him away from Earth.
[55] Some experimental animated short films have attributed with similar use of satirical, political and mature themes during the near end of Marcos regime, for those including Nonoy Dadivas and Fruto Corre's The Criminal (1981), Alcazaren brothers' Hari (1982), Huling Trip (1983) and Pagpula (1984), Roxlee's The Great Smoke (1984).
[56] In 2007, The Nutshack was developed and touted as an adult animated series marketed for a Filipino demographic, drew themes of gang violence, drug abuse, poverty, racism, and rape.
Race's Strength) is a historical drama animated short film that deals with abuse, oppression and war, briefly expanding each story and timeline from the Spanish colonial period to Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
District 143) is an anime-influenced television series covers drama, family tensions, and game-fixing crime syndicates, the story is about a rising basketball star who returns to Manila in search of his father.
Almost all of the animated works have different narrative aesthetics such as history (e.g. Urduja), mythology (e.g. RPG Metanoia), supernatural (e.g. Dayo: Sa Mundo ng Elementalia), satire (e.g. Heneral Tuna), and non-narrative (e.g. Distortion).
[7] Some animated scenes are depicted in Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember, an extreme collage film about juvenile gangsters rob and killed everyone until a failed bank robbery puts them in prison.
Carandang produced the animation of Ramon del Prado's short-film entitled, Libingan or “The Burial”, inspired by the hanging coffins of Sagada, Mountain Province.
[65] He directed a succession of experimental animated shorts in Super 8 and 16mm—made both individually and with a revolving cast of collaborators—cementing his mark on the cultural topography: The Great Smoke (1984), Tao at Kambing (Man and Goat, 1984), Inserts and ABCD (both 1985), Ink (1987), Juan Gapang (Johnny Crawl, 1987), Pencil (1989), and Spit / Optik (1989).
It was College of St. Benilde's entry, Fiesta Karera that won the festival which was authored by Ervin Malicdem, Dante Tiongson, Mark Ylagan, Jonathan Wongkee, Jefferson Lim, Vincent Cheng, Gerard Cruzado, Justin Teh, and Ace Gatdula.
Among other animated films who also screened at the festival and won many awards in many years including Dayo: Sa Mundo ng Elementalia (Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Musical Score, and Best Original Theme Song), RPG Metanoia (3rd Best Picture, Best Sound Recording, and Best Original Theme Song), and Saving Sally (Best Musical Score).
Passage of Life, an animated drama by De La Salle-College of St. Benilde students Renz Vincemark Cruz and Hannah Gayapa, won Best Work for Children.
[7] Over the years, majority of Philippine-made international animated films (both feature and short) and series are largely outsourced by companies in the United States and Japan.
Most Philippine animated works were considered lost, partially found, or destroyed began in the 21st century, primarily Ang Panday, Sa Pagilid-gilid, and Adarna.
Division of Existence was supposed to be released on December 2017 through YouTube, but it never came to fruition due to lack of development and updates led to cancellation as of July 2017.
Only the remaining copies of Philippine animated feature and short films in late-20th century are rediscovered or survived at this point in the late 2010s including Tadhana, The Criminal and The Eye of the Sky, the latter two were released on YouTube.
