Hello my is Harto Muhato,

I am an experienced 2D animator, compositor and digital illustrator.  I studied Animation at City Varsity   in South Africa. Thereafter, I founded Shout Huge Production Ltd in 2011 a creative media house, later renamed to The Tsunami Studio  in 2012 (an animation, illustration, comics and sound studio) where I currently work as the creative director. I’m also the Kenya Animation Association chairperson, a position held since 2018. I hold cumulative experience in the industry for approximately 10 years.

 My short term goal is to excel in the field of Visual Arts through strong creative story based content in the world of animation and comics as well as and be recognized by the international animation community. My long term goal is to to build a robust creative industry in Kenya that will provide equal opportunities and jobs for other artists and animators in Africa.

My slogan ”Why be normal, Be different, Be you”.

In June 2013, the studio won Aitec Africa’s Broadcast Film and music Award for Best Film and Content Developer and another in 2015 at the DXD awards for best audio visual category. The studio was also featured on Dubai One TV’s Peeta Planet series and our work has also be featured on BBC. Our content(educational infographics) for MaishaEDU has recently partnered with the Higher Education Loans Board Kenya (HELB) to provide its content to 300,000+ Kenyan youth annually. We were also accepted into the Tony Elumelu Foundation programme in 2017 in the Media and Entertainment category. Our short film Thank god it’s friday got accepted in the 38th Durban international film festival 2017. Another short film named Ma-Otero that we worked on in collaboration with Avandu got nomineed at the Kalasha 2017 film awards. We won first place at the Movie Jabber event 2017: Comixplosion for best comic pitch and first place at the Naiccon event  in 2017: Animation competition for best animation pitch. In 2018 we won at the Naiccon event with our short film The Next rainbow directed by Salim Busuru. In 2019, I partnered with Movie Jabber to create Otamatsuri the first ever African Anime Festival.