Good News: Survive

by Nick Butler | April 22, 2024 | Toons | 0 Comments

StoryboardsSummaryGood News is a project inspired by the debut album of BAM Alexander. Kenneth "Bam" Alexander Jr – Drummer, producer, writer and singer. Bam has contributed to hits such as Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got" from the Kingdom Come album released in 2006....

B|A|M: Lionforge

by Nick Butler | February 8, 2022 | Talk | 0 Comments

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 his daughters hair for the first time featured the voice of Insecure...

BAM: Live Stream

by Nick Butler | June 24, 2026 | Talk | 0 Comments

BAM: LIVE STREAM

Oroonoko and the Legends of the Lost Kingdoms ( G )

by Nick Butler | June 1, 2022 | Toons | 0 Comments

72 Hour Film Project, Grand Cinema TheaterCredits: Greg Benton, Bryan Stratton, Bethany Butler, Nick ButlerSoftware: Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Audition, TV Paint

B|A|M: Battu

by Nick Butler | December 2, 2021 | Talk | 0 Comments

Black animators who have had to make their own way are now transforming the industry.

B|A|M: King Science

by Nick Butler | December 7, 2021 | Talk | 0 Comments

Episode 4 This week we are talking about Tiktok. King Science - is the largest black animation creator on tiktok with over 12 million followers. He creates abstract comedic skits, vlogs, and narrative shorts. In an influencer fashion his animations center around a...

Oroonoko and the Lost Kingdoms

by Nick Butler | April 6, 2022 | Toons | 0 Comments

A Fox’s Wedding ( PG )

by Nick Butler | June 1, 2022 | Toons | 0 Comments

72 Hour Film Project, Grand Cinema TheaterCredits: Bryan Stratton, Bethany Butler, Nick ButlerSoftware: Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Audition, TV Paint

B|A|M: Felleanimtion

by Nick Butler | December 9, 2021 | Talk | 0 Comments

Episode 5 Lynnell Jones Jr., known as Felleanimated on tiktok is a black animator with over 1.5 million followers. In November Jones received a $50,000 dollar grant to develop a project under the guidance of Macro, a multiplatform media company that represents the...

From A Distance

by Nick Butler | April 22, 2024 | Toons | 0 Comments

Inspiration In 2019 the commercial space race really began to heat up. I wondered what space travel could look like in 100 years for my descendants. This led me to draw my first web comic in 2020 about a family preparing for a space flight in the same way a family...

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