About me:

I’m Savyra Meyer-Lippold, or SavoQuyn, because days are short.

Making things is what drives me, whether by hand (as in stop-motion) or in my mind. This all distils itself into lines in a script or lines drawn on a screen. More on that a little further down, all about my company in Cape Town, Moving Lines.

In the end, the Internet is where we are all locals anyway. See you there!

Since September 2023, work and life have moved to Austria, and it’s here that AI has suddenly captured me. That’s what this site is all about. It hopes to become fully bilingual, but that will take time.

Background

Culture

Growing up and living in different places in South Africa from 1953 till 2023, brought me a love of people and the creativity South Africa is bursting with. I come from farming communities, one being Afrikaans-speaking, the other English. But our family originally descended from German artisans and farmers who joined missionaries emigrating from Northern Germany in 1850.

Cut to the present day, where my South African German has been somewhat* useful in finding my feet after emigrating to Austria in 2023 to join my German husband. (*Austrian dialects will take me years.) My existing studio, Moving Lines, is still based in South Africa, and my new Austrian company is creatively called Savyra Meyer.

Education

I dropped out of high school in my penultimate year and am self-educated. Could have been the best twist of fate, looking back.

Except for the all-important Matric Certificate, which in the end was required just once to enable me to do a vital animation course, the rest has been all about enhancing my skills via online courses. This after learning illustration by distance learning from the Press Art School in London, which was far more arduous.

One can achieve so much with so little, online. It was, and continues to be, an education. This website is a record of my latest semester: AI.