Mindanaotoday.com | ‘Heneral Tuna’ comes back for next mission
By: Shaun Alejandrae Uy
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) brings back the loveable but invasion-plotting blue alien cat from the planet Mingming for another season of the Heneral Tuna animated series.
This time around, the series is accompanied by the Heneral Tuna Fan Art Contest.
This is open to all Filipinos, or what Heneral fondly calls una Fan Art Contest. This is open to all Filipinos, or what Heneral fondly calls “Earthlings,” students and amateur artists, 13 to 21 years old, and is divided into the traditional and digital art categories.
According to the NCCA, the Traditional Art category will accept entries drawn or painted on wood, paper, or canvas, while the Digital Art category accepts digital paintings or illustrations created using any free or paid software.
The artwork must be an interpretation of the Filipino values featured in the series and must contain Heneral Tuna’s character in the composition.
The fan art contest will run from October 10 to November 10, 2022, and will let Filipino Earthlings interpret Heneral Tuna in their own art style while incorporating the Filipino values that were featured in each episode of the 2021 season of the animated series.
The first season of Heneral Tuna showcased Filipino shared values such as family, society, faith, culture, arts, and sciences, health and wellness, life and purpose, and resilience in its seven-episode debut in 2021, which is still streaming via the Heneral Tuna YouTube channel and the NCCA Learning Hub (www.nccalearninghub.com).
NCCA Digital Communications Director Yan Abeledo said, “This project is envisioned to frame the narratives that can effectively showcase the findings of the Filipino Values Research, and we have targeted an audience of young people, particularly those who are still in their formative years.”
The NCCA hopes that this animated series can help imbibe those Filipino values as they grow.
Heneral Tuna was created by Rocketsheep Studio’s Avid Liongoren, who also directed the animated features – “Saving Sally” and “Hayop Ka!” and was penned by Filipino illustrator and graphic designer Carlo Vergara, who also created the fictional comic book character Zsazsa Zaturnnah.
The submission of entries for the Heneral Tuna Fan Art Contest will be done online.
Traditional art entries must be submitted as a scanned file, while digital art entries must be submitted as a high-resolution rendered file. Earthlings can visit this link [https://bit.ly/3rJbJGA] for the complete mechanics of the contest. The deadline for submission of entries is November 10, and winners will be announced on November 21, during the celebration of Filipino Values Month. (SAYU | PIA-10)
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