by Nick Butler | Feb 8, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
Lionforge is the animation company behind the Oscar winning film Hair Love directed by Matthew Cherry, and produced in partnership with Sony pictures animation. The short about a father trying to do his daughters hair for the first time featured the voice of Insecure...
by Nick Butler | Feb 1, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
Founded by brothers Arthell and Darnell Isom along with Henry Thurlow, D’ART Shtajio is the first black owned animation studio in Japan. They sought to bring Westernized elements of art and storytelling to the Japanese animation industry. In 2020 with the world shut...
by Nick Butler | Jan 31, 2022 | Tutorial
Storyboards are extremely useful for helping to find your story, character acting and shot compositions. They are used across the tech, publishing, and marketing industries, but were popularized and are used most in the film and television industry. Storyboarding for...
by Nick Butler | Jan 19, 2022 | Tutorial
The thing to keep in mind when creating animation ready designs is how difficult is it going to be to move things around. You are going to want to focus on simplicity of shape, line weight, and density of details. My name is Nick Butler and in this Turtledust tutorial...
by Nick Butler | Jan 15, 2022 | Black Animation Matters
2022 Preview Blacksands Entertainment, owned and operated by Geiszel and Manuel Godoy, started off the new year with an appearance on Shark Tank where they secured a 500,000 dollar investment from Mark Cuban and Kevin Hart. Blacksands is partnered with Teunis de Raat,...
