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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
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
After about 2 weeks of voting, the winners of the third Digital Lab Africa Pitch competition have been announced. Digital Lab Africa (DLA) is a platform and a call for projects dedicated to creative content linked with innovation in Africa (web creation, virtual reality, video game, animation, digital music). The objective of Digital Lab Africa
Writing about the implications of Netflix greenlighting Mama K’s Super 4, the first animated show from Africa on the streamer, we argued that more pitching initiatives and storytelling labs were the way to go in bringing creative projects to life. We’re not alone in this thinking. Digital Lab Africa has been setting the pace for
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
As seen on Animation Magazine with slight modifications (links and video insertions), May 10, 2017. Post by Mercedes Miligan. Following last month’s announcement of the pitch competition partnership between DISCOP, the African Animation Network and Annecy International Animation Film Festival & Market, Digital Lab Africa has been confirmed as the partner for the Animation Transmedia category
