Biped Walk
Software: Autodesk MayaModeling: Leo Ogawa Lillrank, Rigging: Richard Lico
Charles Young
Software: Adobe Fresco, Adobe AfterEffects, Blender 3d
From A Distance Shorts
Software: TV Paint, Blender 3D
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 at Gaumont Animation, one of the oldest film companies in the world....
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 graphic novel Violator Union which was funded on Kickstarter for 5k,...
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 about a young girl who uses her misfortune to fight the evil she sees...
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 animation studios. Since 2018 BWA has hosted the Black Women Animate...
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 his daughters hair for the first time featured the voice of Insecure...
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 storytelling to the Japanese animation industry. In 2020 with the world shut...
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 are used most in the film and television industry. Storyboarding for...