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This year is perhaps a good year for Filipino animation. Come November, a Pinoy-made animated film done using all digital technology tools will be shown in local theaters. Dayo, as told by its director, features all Filipino talent and artists. The story is also very Filipino. Another animated film, titled Urduja is scheduled to be shown next month. Urduja is also a full-feature animation film, but it still uses the “traditional” paper-based animation techniques, unlike Dayo which was done using specialized digital tools.

Excerpt from the INQUIRER.net story:

MAKATI CITY, Philippines — An all-Filipino production team is scheduled to come out with a full-feature animation film done using digital animation technology, its director told INQUIRER.net.

“We’ve been called crazy before. But the animation industry in the Philippines is two decades old. We’ve been doing outsourcing, so Filipino talent has gone unacknowledged. Recently there’s been a clamor for original content,” said Robert Quilao, director of Dayo, a full-feature animated film that feature the story of an 11-year-old kid named Bubuy.