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Articles and Workshops on illustration and animation production with an focus on the black community.
B|A|M : Soft Not Weak
Chris Butler is one of the founders and animation lead at Soft Not Weak. Soft Not Weak is a worker-owned game cooperative hoping to enact positive change in the game industry by challenging the...
B|A|M: Oh Shari Productions
Shari B. Ellis began her animation career as an assistant at Disney Feature Animation and coordinator on Atlantis: The Lost Empire. In February of 2022 she became Associate Producer for Stillwater...
B|A|M: Soda Monkey Entertainment
Shawna Mills has been a story artist, director and designer since 2008. Working for studios such as Lucas Film, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, and Marvel Studios!Her personal projects include the...
Black Animation Matters: GemGfx
GemGfx, a Trinidad and Tobago based animation studio is owned and operated by husband and wife team Everard and Dixie-Ann McBain. In 2021 they released a trailer for their project Jumbie a story...
Black Animation Matters: BWA Studios
Black Women Animate founded by Taylor Shaw in collaboration with JLove Calderon is harnessing the creative voice of black women animators to produce original content and drive productions for top...
Black Animation Matters: Lionforge
Lionforge is the animation company behind the Oscar winning film Hair Love directed by Matthew Cherry, and produced in partnership with Sony pictures animation. The short about a father trying to do...
Black Animation Matters: D’Art Shtajio Animation Studio
Founded by brothers Arthell and Darnell Isom along with Henry Thurlow, D’ART Shtajio is the first black owned animation studio in Japan. They sought to bring Westernized elements of art and...
Anime Style Storyboarding with Adobe Fresco
Storyboards are extremely useful for helping to find your story, character acting and shot compositions. They are used across the tech, publishing, and marketing industries, but were popularized and...
Cartoon Network Style Illustration with Adobe Fresco
The thing to keep in mind when creating animation ready designs is how difficult is it going to be to move things around. You are going to want to focus on simplicity of shape, line weight, and...
Black Animation Matters: 2022 Preview
2022 Preview Blacksands Entertainment, owned and operated by Geiszel and Manuel Godoy, started off the new year with an appearance on Shark Tank where they secured a 500,000 dollar investment from...