November 20, 2021By Squid Mag
Originally published by Forbes Africa, written by Karen Mwendera South Africa’s emerging animation industry has a new star in creative entrepreneur Lwazi Msipha, who has just debuted a first-of-its-kind African cartoon show on a global network. Imagine if you could draw and create your own friends. Self-taught South African animator, Lwazi Msipha, did exactly that, in
June 13, 2021By Squid Mag
Annecy International Animation Festival has awarded Triggerfish the Mifa Animation Industry Award. The 25 year old studio joins other acclaimed studios like Aardman for the honor. Additionally, this year’s hybrid Annecy festival features the South African studio prominently across screenings and sessions as part of the festival’s focus on African animation. As part of the
May 26, 2021By Kadi
Highlights include a Keynote presented by Justice RX’s Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, Ph.D. and a Fireside Chat with Marvel Studios’ Victoria Alonso as Women in Animation partners with South Africa’s Triggerfish for this year’s event. Women in Animation (WIA) is pleased to announce the program for the fifth Women In Animation World Summit, in conjunction with this
February 3, 2021By Kadi
Following a monumental 10-book deal with Dark Horse Comics, YouNeek Studios has secured VC investment from Impact X Capital to develop a groundbreaking animation series based on a world of superhero and fantasy stories inspired by African history and mythology. Highly regarded former senior VP of co-productions at DreamWorks, Doug Schwalbe, has joined as executive
August 10, 2020By Squid Mag
Kabelo Maaka, also known as Cabblow is an award-winning 2D animator and illustrator from South Africa and the co-founder of Cabblow Studios. She founded the animation studio with her mother, Dr Tshepo P. Maaka. She’s one of the pioneering African women in animation and was one of the continental finalists at the Nairobi edition of
August 3, 2020By Squid Mag
This post on Modin Comics, Jeffrey Abban and Ghanaian animation originally appeared on theafricandream.net and was authored by Oral Ofori. Parts of the post have been republished here with slight modifications. In what has become stereotypical about Africa with wars, poverty, and others that demean the continent, many have put it upon themselves to in
June 21, 2020By Kadi
The winners of Digital Lab Africa 4, or (DLA#4 for short) have been announced. The winners were announced in an online ceremony as part of Annecy Online, the virtual edition of the animation festival in France. Digital Lab Africa (DLA) is a platform and a call for projects dedicated to creative content linked with innovation
June 8, 2020By betasquidmag_pcwivg
This post was originally published by Sahara Weekly on May 31, 2020. Submissions for the 4th edition of the Lagos International Festival of Animation, LIFANIMA closed on May 15, 2020, and received 905 entries from 100 countries. This is a remarkable increase in the number of entries and countries compared to the 2019 edition when
May 31, 2020By Kadi
There’s so much happening in the African digital art space that, try as we do, we can’t capture it all. Luckily, we’re not the only ones interested in sharing stories about comics, games and animation from Africa. Below is a roundup of African animation, comics and video game stories we caught on our radar in
May 28, 2020By Squid Mag
This article on The Boy and the Robin was originally published on The South African and was written by Ishani Chetty. A group of nine young filmmakers from The Animation School in Cape Town have won a gold award for their short animation film, the Boy and the Robin in the student division of the
Animation created by Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora.