Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. From Cape Town to Cairo, Lagos to Nairobi, animation is fueling ...
Aiming to help women overcome obstacles and inspire social change in the animation industry, the Afro Women in Animation Community recently hosted Africa’s first-ever women-focused animation festival ...
Introduced last year, MIA’s dedicated animation program heads into its sophomore edition with a more firmly entrenched industry position and a resoundingly global outlook. With the program scaffolding ...
As part of its Representation Matters Collection, Netflix has debuted a new animated series to its roster. On July 20, 2023, Supa Team 4 premiered as Netflix’s first original African animated series.
The "Pixar of South Africa" will invest up to $3.5 million over three years in the initiative designed to give African storytellers the opportunity to develop their ideas. By Georg Szalai Global ...
I can’t let Black History Month pass without making mention of the fantastic Facebook gallery called African-American Animators–Past & Present. It’s disheartening to think that for the first fifty ...
The Cartoon Network and Gulli, the Lagardère-owned kids network, are doubling down on African animation. Gulli announced in Annecy June 14 that it’s pre-purchased “L’arbre à Palimpseste” (The Tree of ...
Digital technology may have led to the decline of hand-drawn animation, but it still required legions of creatives and technicians to feed into the process. Now some fear that artificial intelligence ...
Helmer Porteus Xandau’s animated pic “Hillbrow” explores the conflict that has arisen in South Africa over efavirenz, one of the antiretroviral medications formulated to treat AIDS that is now being ...