Triggerfish’s award-winning animation ‘Zog’. Image via Instagram @triggerfishanimation
Sponsored by Netflix, the ‘Story Artist Lab’ aims to upskill the next generation of animation artists. Here’s what you need to know.
Triggerfish’s award-winning animation ‘Zog’. Image via Instagram @triggerfishanimation
African animation studio Triggerfish has launched the Story Artist Lab, sponsored by Netflix to find talent and upskill the next generation of African animators.
Applications for the Story Artist Lab opened on Wednesday 23 June and close on Friday 23 July.
The Cape Town-based animation studio is well established in the animation industry with their film Mama L’s Team 4 becoming Netflix’s first African animated series and their film Zog winning an international Emmy for Best Kids Animation among other animation awards, including the 2020 Children’s Programme Award from the Royal Television Society.
The Story Artist Lab builds on the success of Triggerfish’s Mama L’s Team 4 all-female writers lab which saw nine African women placed in the writing room for the first animated Netflix series.
The purpose of the Story Artist Lab is to find talent and upskill the next generation of Story Artists in the African animation industry. The lab positions will be awarded to young African citizens who show outstanding potential in the creative arts and visual storytelling.
“Story artists translate screenplays into animatics, the loose first version of the movie that then shapes every step of animation that follows,” said Triggerfish’s Zimbabwean-born development executive, Tendayi Nyeke according to Triggerfish.
“So, having skilled story artists from the continent in control of how their stories are told is a gamechanger, not only in grooming the next African directors but also in giving pre-production artists the opportunity to establish their own voice as they bring African stories to life,” she added.
According to Triggerfish,
You can apply here.
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