by Nick Butler | Apr 13, 2022 | Black Animation Matters, feature
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 current work culture, and representing a wider spectrum of characters and...
by Nick Butler | Apr 5, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
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 at Gaumont Animation, one of the oldest film companies in the world....
by Nick Butler | Mar 8, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
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 graphic novel Violator Union which was funded on Kickstarter for 5k,...
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...
