Introduced last year, MIA’s dedicated animation program heads into its sophomore edition with a more firmly entrenched industry position and a resoundingly global outlook. With the program scaffolding ...
To understand the success of Triggerfish, the fast-rising, Cape Town-based animation house, which won the prestigious MIFA Animation Industry Award this week in Annecy, one need look no further than ...
The "Pixar of South Africa" will invest up to $3.5 million over three years in the initiative designed to give African storytellers the opportunity to develop their ideas. By Georg Szalai Global ...
Digital technology may have led to the decline of hand-drawn animation, but it still required legions of creatives and technicians to feed into the process. Now some fear that artificial intelligence ...
Baboon Animation has set up Baboon Animation Africa (BAA) in partnership with African Animation Network (AAN). The aim is to build “a new animation business paradigm” rooted in diversity, equity and ...
As part of its Representation Matters Collection, Netflix has debuted a new animated series to its roster. On July 20, 2023, Supa Team 4 premiered as Netflix’s first original African animated series.
While this representation is a huge victory, many African animators’ quest for representation goes beyond just having characters who look like them. Animation has also become a tool for preserving ...
EXCLUSIVE: 3Point0 Labs has signed African comic book publisher and animation company Comic Republic for representation in all areas. Nigeria-based Comic Republic, set up in 2013 by Jide Martin ...
To understand the success of Triggerfish, the fast-rising, Cape Town-based animation house, which won the prestigious MIFA Animation Industry Award this week in Annecy, one need look no further than ...