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The 60th-anniversary edition of Annecy won’t throw the spotlight one country, instead, it will honour an entire continent: Africa! African Animation will be in the limelight at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the biggest and most prestigious animation festival in the world! The selection marks the latest step forward in Annecy’s growing collaboration with
Natasha Nayo, also known as Star Crea8tor is a Ghanaian 2D animator, illustrator, storyboard artist, character designer and comic book artist who graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Animation and Illustration from the Maryland Institue College of Art. In 2017, Natasha collaborated with StoryFarm to create Accidently, an unusual ad about the Second Amendment and
The first edition of the Accra Animation Film Festival (AAFFia) recently wrapped after shining a spotlight on African animation as well as hosting the third leg of the Pan-African Animation du Monde preliminary rounds. With each passing round of the competition, creators and animators have delivered higher and higher quality work, and yet only three will progress to the
Animation in Africa over the last few years has seen a remarkable boost, in production and consumption with no signs of slowing down. In June this year, Annecy announced Africa as the spotlight territory for the next edition of the Annecy Animation Film Festival in 2020. This is incredible news that has the African animation
Scrolling through Julia Naa Shika Odamtten’s Instagram page is a bottomless pool of pure joy you can’t ever get enough of. Rich textures, emotive and colourful gradients, edgy characters, avant-garde fashion and an overwhelming sense of cool draw you into her majestically insane world – a world where your only sin, is to not be true
I first came across Emmanuel Dankyi’s (ed. for short) work during the promotion of the first Artmosphere Design Experience (dEX for short) event sometime in March of 2018. His fun, out-the-box ideas, colour choices, geometric patterns, refreshing animations, expressive photos and subject matter got me hooked. Several months after encountering his work, ed. has become
