by Nick Butler | Feb 21, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
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 about a young girl who uses her misfortune to fight the evil she sees...
by Nick Butler | Feb 14, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
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 animation studios. Since 2018 BWA has hosted the Black Women Animate...
by Nick Butler | Feb 8, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
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...
by Nick Butler | Feb 1, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
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 storytelling to the Japanese animation industry. In 2020 with the world shut...
by Nick Butler | Jan 31, 2022 | Tutorial
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 are used most in the film and television industry. Storyboarding for...
