African Animation
Accra 18th June 2018 — The MTN Apps Challenge version 5.O, which launched in September 2017 has entered its final stage with the completion of vetting of the various Apps that were submitted for the competition. Out of over 100 projects received after the launch, 48 made it into the second round of auditions. App
Cartoon Network and Gulli, the Lagardère-owned kids network, are doubling down on African animation. Gulli announced in Gulli announced in Annecy June 14 that it’s pre-purchased L’arbre à Palimpseste (The Tree of Palimpsest), an animated TV series by Togo’s Ingrid Agbo, for broadcast across its Gulli Africa network. Turner, meanwhile, is upping its stake in the continent’s animation industry with
France’s Lagardere Studios, Senegal’s Keewu Productions and Nigeria’s Spoof Media are producing Area Daddy, a new animated series based on Ayodele Elegba’s winner of the first edition of Digital Lab Africa’s (DLA) transmedia category in 2016. Mentored by Alexandre Rideau, director of Keewu Productions, Elegba produced a pilot episode which was screened at Annecy in 2017. Area Daddy offers
Animation is not one of the things that come to mind when you think of MTN Ghana. The telco is well known for many innovations from fast and reliable 4G LTE internet to nationwide mobile penetration and more. Yet, MTN Ghana has been championing animation in Ghana in its own way for the last three years
What is your purpose in life? For some, it is to inspire the world, others, to make money, others still, to be the best they absolutely can be and for most, to just live. Whatever it is, there’s no denying the hard work involved. But often, we need a break, an escape to recalibrate our
Have you ever wondered about the animation and visual effects in blockbuster movies such as Avengers: Infinity War, Planet of the Apes or Gravity? Congo-born animator Sidney Kombo once did and will soon share his journey as well as tips and advice on how to get started and more. Today the Animation Supervisor at Weta Digital, the
Back in high school, my friends and I were described as cartoons. We were referred to as cartoon boys. This was no endearing term but rather, an attempt to demean us and spit on the things we loved. It was a way of saying stop being “childish” and be like the rest of us. But we didn’t
This story on Francis Brown originally appeared on Pulse Business Insider. It has been slightly modified for context and clarity. AnimaxFYB studios have teamed up to deliver the “African story” using animation. Despite the increasing appetite from curious minds for African stories, finding animated films that tell the African story in West Africa, let alone Ghana, has been
Market organiser DISCOP Africa has partnered with a network of African comic conventions and The African Animation Network to form DISComics, an initiative designed to support and grow the African animation and comics industry. It will debut as an event at DISCOP’s forthcoming markets in Abidjan, Zanzibar and Johannesburg in 2018 with a focus on the ubiquity
When I first saw his short film “Flower”, I went mad with excitement. The plot of the animation was like none I’d ever seen, and it certainly wasn’t one I expected. “Flower” was the gateway to discovering the incredibly talented illustrator, animator, writer that is Selorm Dogoe. I’m not even ashamed to say that I
