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ONCAMPUS Characters

I am attempting to create two oncampus characters, a boy and a girl, to go along with our oncampus uk north branding. The requirements are that the girl is muslim, so I am doing some quick research and looking for inspiration.

I would want the characters to be wearing an ONCAMPUS UK North red hoodie and look very friendly. They may not need facial features or a lot of detail, simplicity is sometimes key.

Last days

Today is my second to last day of the internship. I finish on Monday :(

It’s been great here. I have learnt a lot, especially of how much work goes on behind the scenes. I have been given responsibility, and even though I may have not felt qualified, I learnt how to rise to the occasion. I felt like I was a part of the team here and I really appreciate the fact that I was given this opportunity.

Next sunday I move to Wolverhampton to start PEACE. Practical Evangelism and Adventist Christian Education. I am super excited and already know quite a lot of the students attending with me but there are 20 enrolled students so far. (There’s still time for more to apply in all honesty!) I am super excited and can’t wait to get started, but I’m also sad that i’m leaving UCLan. But who knows... maybe I’ll be back.

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A GCSE student from Lancaster came to UCLan for a morning/afternoon taster session. She loves character design and 2D animation, but we tried some stop motion animation. Amelia (who is the GCSE student) made the cat, Mario made the alien and Rebecca made the tooth. I set up the camera and computer for Dragonframe and we used a set that was already in the animation booth. Then Me, Amelia and Rebecca, created this 6 second animation. I am so proud of what we created. It was fun and it was so impromptu.

This actually made me want to get into more stop motion animation. It made me understand animation a bit more and I truly believe that getting into stop frame can enhance your 2D and 3D animation skills.

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Overcome

I searched “overcome” in google to see what came up. Here’s some things that stood out to me...

1. This silhouette of a man on a mountain holding a flag, I think it’s clever and could really work in the music video. I could animate the flag waving.

2. I like the fact that they used different fonts and placed it over a hand. I don’t think this would fit as well as the first idea because Tino doesn’t stretch out his hand, he just moves his head.

3. This could be nice to have the person walking up a hill and pushing the boulder. However, this would take longer to animate and we are on a short time schedule.

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Progress Report

The Scripture Says music video is almost there, just some more things to add and take away.

I don’t like what I've created for the beginning and the end. I would rather have the words written. So I will change that today.

I need to repeat the chorus “Heaven” starting at 2 minutes.

I need something for around 1:55 when Tino sings “He who overcomes shall inherit. Maybe just the word overcome? Maybe an image. I’ll research some stuff.

from just before 2:30 til coming up to 2:45, there is nothing. It’s only about 15 seconds but that is quite long in this instance. I could animate anything in “behold I make all things new... well done my faithful few... enter into the joy of the Lord prepared for you”. It could be quite nice to write all the rhyming words. all things NEW, faithful FEW, Prepared for YOU.

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I tried the wave effect on After effects and I actually really like it. I tried it in black and white as well as in blue. I think it works quite well with the arm movements. I’m not sure whether it’s better in black or in blue. But if it is in colour like this, I presume that many other parts need to have some colour added. This is very possible but it will take longer.

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Progress Report

Today has been super productive! I animated quite a lot of little things for the Heaven music video and I will clean everything up in after effects in post production. I need to figure out if after effects can play music... otherwise it’s going to be hard to match everything up! I’m going to try and export the Photoshop png sequences as a whole. But this will take forever to export!

Things to add

No more - crossing off checklist

Former things - text that fades out

Battle is won - no idea what to do yet but something representing victory. Maybe a cheering crowd our trophy. Maybe the cross of Calvary.

Overcomer - is over a rock or something

Enter into your reward - build up for something amazing

Little beats when Nigel taps the glass

Drum effects again

All things new - maybe the sun comes up

well done - text

music notes flying from Nigel’s hands “no more dying”

Former things - text fade out

Heaven - repeats

first verse repeated

drum beats

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Music notes

I love the look of the birds with the music notes on the stave! I may incorporate something like this.

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Water Effects

I found these water animation exercises, both interesting and kinda cool. It would be dope to put it in the glassy sea section...

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The key to a victorious day is to begin it with prayer. Let this be your morning cycle... WAKE, PRAY,...

Glorify apparel

This shop I discovered has some really nice designs. This jacket, I LOVE. But It’s very expensive for what it is.

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Great Women Animators (Additional)

http://greatwomenanimators.com/

So I was searching again for women in animation, and I came across this website. It is so amazing to see a huge list of female animators. I don’t know why I haven’t come across this website before! Not only does it show you the name of the animator and where she comes from, but also the animation she specialises in and giving examples of her work or links to her website/portfolio.

The irony here is, I’M FINDING BLACK WOMEN!!! Not even on purpose, but accidentally.

Ebele Okoye

Ebele Okoye is a German 2D animation film maker of Nigerian descent based in Berlin. After a Design-study stint at the University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf, and a traineeship at the West German Broadcasting Corporation, WDR, Ebele Okoye furthered in Animation at the International Film School Cologne . Upon graduation in 2004, she worked as a studio animator before going independent with own films as well heading international Co-productions one of which is “Anna Blume” winner of the 2007 Robert Bosch Foundation Promotional Prize for Animation. Also a two time winner of the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in the category Animation, Ebele does a lot of mentoring for young Animators and animation enthusiasts from the sub Saharan African region. Aside running the Facebook group and online community “The Animation Club Africa”, she is the founder and co-ordinator of Shrinkfish Media Lab (smedLAB), a very young audiovisual training initiative focusing on young artistic talents in the West African region.

Jessica Ashman

Jessica Ashman is a BAFTA in Scotland award winning animator, artist and arts educator. In 2014 she graduated from the Royal College of Art with a MA in Animation and her work has been supported by Animate Projects, Jerwood Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council England, UK Film Council and Channel 4’s Random Acts. Jessica’s films have been exhibited in over 60 film festivals internationally, including The Edinburgh International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and Encounters Short Film Festival. Jessica has also been selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus, Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab and B3 Media’s Talent Lab. As well as creating moving image work, Jessica also engages in arts education, teaching her practice at Goldsmiths, The University for the Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire and Arts University Bournemouth, as well as running arts workshops for the ICA, Tate Modern and the Wellcome Trust. Commercially as a director, Jessica has created content for clients such as the Sky One, BBC, Channel 4, Asda and Heart FM.

Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. atrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novels, originally published in French in four parts in 2000–2003 and in English translation in two parts in 2003 and 2004, respectively, as Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe. Persepolis won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Awardat the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2013, Chicago schools were ordered by the district to remove Persepolis from classrooms because of the work's graphic language and violence. This incited protests and controversy. Her later publication, Embroideries (Broderies), was also nominated for the Angoulême Album of the Year award in 2003, an award that her novel Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes) won. She has also contributed to the Op-Ed section of The New York Times. Comics Alliance listed Satrapi as one of 12 women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. Satrapi prefers the term "comic books" to "graphic novels."[15] "People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'," she told the Guardian newspaper in 2011. "It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears. No: it's all comics."

The Brumberg Sisters

(Not women of colour, but I thought they’d be interesting to add)

Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg, Jewish sisters who became known as the “Grandmothers of Soviet Animation” for their contribution to the field of animated fairy tales within the Soviet Animation studio Soyutzmultfilm. Died age 76 and 82

Michelle Kranot

Beginning their career in animation, Michelle and Uri Kranots’ work has expanded beyond the traditional: their art straddles experimental genres and unfamiliar mediums, fusing handmade crafted images and new technologies into contemporary experiences. Their current work continues to test the frontiers of immersive art and moving images. The Kranots are the founders of TinDrum, an animation production company and the producers and creative directors of ANIDOX, focused on development and production of animated documentaries. Part of The Animation Workshop in Viborg Denmark, where they hold various key positions. The Kranots first gained recognition with films such as Black Tape, Hollow Land, How Long, Not Long and most recently, the VR film installation Nothing Happens . They have been honored with the top industry awards for their work, including the Fipresci Prize at Annecy International Animation Film Festival, The Oscar® Academy Award Shortlist and the Danish Statens Kunstfond award for the performing arts. In recent years, the Kranot have focused on collaborative projects using cross-media innovations to enhance emotional human storytelling, exposing the depth and beauty in the things – physical and intangible – that connect us all. Originally from Israel, Michelle and Uri live in Viborg where they are raising their three sons.

Makiko Futaki

Makiko Futaki (June 19, 1958 – May 13, 2016) was a Japanese animator best known for her work at Studio Ghibli for more than thirty years. Futaki, who joined Studio Ghibli in 1981, worked on all of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated feature films, beginning with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984. Her best known Studio Ghibli’s productions include My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004). Her last film credit was Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There (2014), which is Studio Ghibli’s final feature film to date. In 1981, Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, the co-founders of Studio Ghibli, hired her to work on their film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1981), which began her thirty-year relationship with the studio as a freelance animator. Makiko Futaki died from an unspecified illness at a hospital in Tokyo on May 13, 2016, at the age of 57.

Jane Cheadle

Jane Cheadle was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied Philosophy at the University of Cape Town and Animation at the Royal College or Art. She lives and works in London.

Regina Pessoa

Regina Maria Póvoa Pessoa Martins (born 16 December 1969) is a Portuguese animator. She graduated in painting from University of Porto in 1998 and during her time as a student took part in different animation workshops, having participated in Espace Projets (Annecy, 1995) with the short A Noite, which she would finish in 1999. In 1992 she started working in Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, where she collaborated as animator in various films. Her short Tragic Story with Happy Ending is the most awarded Portuguese film ever. Her short animated film, "Kali, the Little Vampire" was awarded the Hiroshima prize at the 2012 Hiroshima international animation festival, the "1st Prize Animated Short Film – CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL 2013", "The Golden Gate Award for Best Animation Short - 56th SAN FRANCISCO INT. FILM FESTIVAL 2013", "40TH Annie Awards Nomination in the Best Animated Short Subject Category 2013", Nomination for the Cartoon d’Or 2013.

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British Women in Animation

Sarah Kennedy is doing a documentary on female animators. I am doing some research and finding it so interesting. Back in the day, women weren’t really valued. They weren’t even classed as artists, they were degraded and looked down upon. They rarely even got credited for the work they did. It appals me to think that this was acceptable.

In this blog I will research British female animators.

Suzanah (Suzie) Clare Templeton (born 1967 in Hampshire, England) is an award-winning British animator. Her film Peter and the Wolf has won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2008.

Stanley (1999) is the winner of the 2001 Golden Sun Award, the 2000 Best College Student Animation Award of the Nashville Independent Film Festival, the 2000 Best Animation Award for the International Short Film Festival of Berlin, and many others.

Dog (2001) is the winner of the 2002 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Short Animation and many others.

Peter and the Wolf (2006) is the winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Short Film, the 2006 British Animation Award for Best TV Special, the 2007 Pulcinella Ward for Best European Programme, the 2007 Grand Prix and Audience Award Annecy at the French Animation Festival, the 2007 Golden Rose for Performing Arts at the Rose D'or Festival in Switzerland, the 2007 Special Prize at the Ukraine Animated Film Festival, and the 2008 Special Jury Award of the Lucca Animation Festival in Italy.

Joy Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the animated feature film Animal Farm (1954), which made her the first woman director of an animated feature since Lotte Reiniger. Together they created over 2000 shorts/films, and produced roughly 70 propaganda pieces during World War II for the British government. She helped co-write, write, animate, produce, and direct many of their productions.

One of her projects as an art director was Cinerama Holiday (1955). Joy directed and wrote Ruddigore (1967), a television-film adaptation of W.S. Gilbert's opera of the same name, which became the first opera to be adapted into an animated film. She later worked in television, directing series, including animated shows like The Jackson 5ive (1971). Batchelor died on 14 May 1991, just two days after her 77th birthday.

Between 1975 and 1980, Sheila Graber created a selection of animated shorts which were shown worldwide. One animation, Mondrian, about the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian was screened at the Tate Gallery, Mondrian’s own house in the Netherlands, the Open University and British Broadcasting Corporation's children's television series Blue Peter.[2]

By 1975, Graber was working for Filmfair, and created the animation for Paddington Bear and Mr and Mrs Brown for the television series Paddington.[1] She also animated the 1983 BBC series Just So Stories, adapted from a collection of children's stories of the same name, written by Rudyard Kipling.[3]

In 1980, newly divorced, Sheila left her role as head of Creative Studies at a large comprehensive school to begin teaching animation classes in Tunisia and Caracas, and pursue a career as a full-time professional artist and animator.

I love the fact that Sheila became an animation teacher. That is amazing!

Joanna Quinn was born in Birmingham, England in 1962 and grew up in North London. Quinn's first film Girls Night Out was completed in 1987 and won three awards at the Annecy Film Festival. Quinn has won over 90 international awards, including 2 Emmy awards, 4 Bafta awards and Jury prizes at all the major animation festivals. One of her films, Famous Fred (1997), received an Academy Award nomination. Quinn was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci International Art Award in 1996. In 2006 her film Dreams and Desires won Grand Prix at World Festival of Animated Film

Alison de Vere (16 September 1927 – 2 January 2001), while married also known as Alison Weschke, was a British animator, known for her animated short films The Black Dog and Psyche and Eros. Born in Peshawar into a British military family, de Vere studied art in Brighton and at the Royal Academy. She worked as a background designer at Halas and Batchelor studio beginning in 1951, at a time when women were unheard of in creative leadership roles in British animation. Nonetheless she took the leadership of the animation unit of Guild Television Services in 1957. During the 1960s, she worked as a freelancer, but joined TVC in 1967 to work as design director on the Beatles film Yellow Submarine, in which she had a cameo.

Jackie Cockle, born 1950 in Portsmouth, is a British stop frame animation specialist. She is the creator and creative producer of the pre-school animation Timmy Time, creative producer of Bob the Builder and Brambly Hedge, director of The Wind in the Willows and more. Cockle, a graduate of the Manchester College of Art and Design, has won 3 Bafta awards: one in the best animation category for Bob the Builder 30 minute special (2002) and two in the pre-school animation for Timmy Time (2010, 2013) - a production of the Bristol-based Aardman Animations.

Eunice Macaulay (nee Eunice Bagley) (1923 – 2013) was a British-born Academy Award–winning animator whose credits range from animation to writing, directing, and producing. She shifted into animation when a Christmas card she had designed got her a job with Gaumont British Animation (later part of the Rank Organisation) in 1948. Starting out as a tracer, she went on to hold nearly every position in animation, including background artist, ink and paint supervisor, rendering supervisor, writer, animator, producer, and director.

Dianne Jackson (July 28, 1941 – December 31, 1992) was an English animation director, best known for The Snowman, made in 1982 and subsequently repeated every Christmas on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.

She had a long career as an animator, and her earliest credit was for The Beatles' Yellow Submarine in 1968. She is particularly noted for recreating the style of the original artists in her animations, for example of Raymond Briggs's picture book, The Snowman.

She also directed Granpa by John Burningham in 1989 and was due to direct Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas in 1991, having completed storyboarding for the film, although due to her illness this was directed by Dave Unwin. She also planned the first series of animated adaptations of the tales of Beatrix Potter as The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. However, she died of cancer on New Year's Eve 1992 at the age of 51. The series episode "The Tailor of Gloucester" is dedicated to her memory

Jodie Mack (born 1983 in London, England) is an English-born American experimental filmmaker and animator. She attended the University of Florida and earned her MFA in film, video, and new media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches at Dartmouth College. Mack's works have screened at the Viennale, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Locarno Festival. Mack is currently a 2017–2018 Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow/David and Roberta Logie Fellow. Mack primarily produces her films using a 16 millimeter Bolex camera. Mack stated in an interview that "[She] chose to work in film because the material renders color and texture in a way that resonates with a lot of [her] work”.

Many of Jodie Mack's films are stop motion animations that feature everyday fabrics and textiles or recycled materials like magazine clippings or newspaper scraps.

Alison Snowden (born 4 April 1958) is an English animator, voice actress, producer, and screenwriter best known for Bob and Margaret alongside her Oscar-winning short Bob's Birthday which was also co-directed by her partner David Fine. Bob's Birthday serves as the pilot for the Alison Snowden and David Fine's animated TV show Bob and Margaret.

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Legendary Female Animators

Following on from documentary on female animators, here is some more research into women in animation.

I am so fortunate to live in a world where there is equal opportunities for men and for women. It’s clear to see that many women take interest into animation as you can see in universities that a lot of the classes are made up of females. However, women still aren’t as recognised as men in the animation field. Why is that?

Not just ink and paint girls was a huge eye opener. I didn’t know how hard these ladies had to fight to achieve their dreams. It was so insightful to hear of the women who started the revolution and inspired us all.

Brenda Chapman (born November 1, 1962) is an American writer, animation story artist and director. In 1998, she became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio, DreamWorks Animation's The Prince of Egypt. She co-directed the Disney/Pixar film Brave, becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Wow, Brenda is such an inspiration. Not only did she work on these films but also on Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and The Hunch Back of Notre Dame. She was heavily involved in the stories of my favourite Disney films. Not only that, but she is an award winner. My inspiration!

Lillian Friedman Astor (born April 12, 1912 in New York City – July 9, 1989) was the first American female studio animator, working at for the Fleischer Brothers’ studio, inking and eventually animating various Betty Boop cartoons, as well as one Popeye, some Color Classics, and several Hunky and Spunky cartoons, although she received screen credit on only six cartoons in her lifetime

Mary Ellen Bute (November 21, 1906 – October 17, 1983) was a pioneer American film animator significant as one of the first female experimental filmmakers. Her specialty was visual music and, while working in New York between 1934 and 1953, made fourteen short, abstract musical films. Many of these were seen in regular movie theaters, such as Radio City Music Hall, usually preceding a prestigious film. Several of her later abstract films were categorized as part of her Seeing Sound series.

Sarah "Sally" Cruikshank (born June 1949) is an American cartoonist and animator whose work includes animation for the Children's Television Workshop program Sesame Street, and whose short "Quasi at the Quackadero" (1975) was inducted into the United States National Film Registry.

(This video at 12 minutes has a clip of Sally.)

Thérèse "Tissa" David (January 5, 1921 – August 21, 2012) was a Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity, whose career spanned more than sixty years. She was one of the pioneering women in animation, a field which had been dominated by male animators. Millimeter magazine described her as "one of the few women to have reached the top in the traditionally male-dominated animated cartoon field" and "one of the world's best and busiest" animators in a story published in 1975.

In 1953, she directed Bonjour Paris, becoming the second female animator to direct an animated feature film. David later became one of the first women to create and animate a major character in a film when she designed Raggedy Ann for the 1977 movie, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure.

Faith Hubley (née Chestman; September 16, 1924 – December 7, 2001) was an animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death.

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Founded in 1995, WIA is the only organization dedicated to advancing women in the field of animation. I never knew it existed until now! I think it’s amazing how women are trying to get their foot in the door when it comes to animation. However, it’s sad how women have to create separate organisations to be noticed in this field!

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This was a really interesting TED talk that Brenda Chapman gave about feminism. She saw how Disney portrayed princesses to be quite ditsy and dependant on men to save them (like Snow White), so she brought something new to the table... Brave. A girl who depended on no one and knew she could succeed without a man.

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Black cartoons

Whilst searching for black animators, I mainly found black cartoons. So I thought i’d so a post on them also. Maybe through these cartoons, i’ll find more black animators.

Hammerman

Hammerman is a Saturday morning cartoon, produced by DIC Animation City and starring pop rapper MC Hammer, which aired for thirteen episodes on ABC in the fall of 1991. The hero had magical church shoes that gave him the ability to fight crime.

The PJ’s

The PJs is an American stop-motion animated black sitcom, created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It portrayed life in an urban public housing project, modeled after the Cabrini–Green housing projects in Chicago.[1] The series starred Eddie Murphy, and was produced by Imagine Entertainment by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, The Murphy Company and Will Vinton Studios in association with Touchstone Television, marking as Disney's first adult animated series. The original run of the series debuted on Fox on Sunday, January 10, 1999, following the network's coverage of the NFC Divisional Playoffs. Two days later, the second episode aired in its regular Tuesday night time slot, following King of the Hill.

Fat Albery and the Cosby Kids

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985 (with new episodes being produced sporadically during that time frame). The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centred on Fat Albert (known for his catchphrase "Hey hey hey!"), and his friends.

The show features an educational lesson in each episode, emphasised by Cosby's live-action segments. In addition, at the end of the early episodes, the gang typically gathers in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a song on their cobbled-together instruments, summarising the show's lesson

C-Bear and Jamal

C Bear and Jamal is an animated comedy television show that premiered on the Fox Kids programming block in 1996. It features an elementary-aged school kid named Jamal, whose constant companion was "C Bear", a hip hop teddy bear who sings. Film Roman co-produced the show

Proud Family

The Proud Family was created by Walt Disney Animation Studios animator Bruce W. Smith and was produced by Jambalaya Studios. Originally piloted for Disney's One Saturday Morning, then Nickelodeon, it was eventually picked up by Disney Channel and started airing in September 2001. An original pilot was made and produced by Nickelodeon in 1999 but was never shown to the public resulting in Nickelodeon passing the show on. Many of the later episodes of The Proud Family were produced using Adobe Flash.

Little Bill

Little Bill is an American animated children's television series produced for Nick Jr. The stories are based on Bill Cosby's Little Bill book series, set in Philadelphia, and feature Bill Jr. learning a lesson or moral. It was developed through research and in consultation with a panel of educational consultants.[4]

The show's debut was on November 28, 1999, and aired on CBS as part of Nick Jr. on CBS, from September 16, 2000 – September 7, 2002, then as part of Nick on CBS from August 2, 2003 – September 10, 2005. The final episode aired on February 6, 2004, and reruns returned, with the return of Nick Jr. on CBS, on September 17, 2005.

Reruns continued to air on the channel Nick Jr., until February 24, 2014.

The Princess and the Frog

Walt Disney’s first black princess was released in winter of 2009. This was something so new and so exciting.

The Princess and the Frog began production under the working title The Frog Princess. It marked Disney's brief return to traditional animation, as it was the studio's first traditionally animated film since Home on the Range (2004). Co-directors Ron Clements and John Musker, directors of Disney's highly successful films The Little Mermaid (1989) and Aladdin (1992), returned to Disney to direct The Princess and the Frog. The studio returned to a Broadway musical-style format frequently used during the Disney Renaissance, and features music written by composer Randy Newman, well known for his musical involvement in Pixar films such as A Bug's Life (1998), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Cars (2006), and the Toy Storytrilogy (1995, 1999, and 2010). The film also marked the return of Disney animated musical films based on well-known stories since the Disney Renaissance.

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Francis Brown The Ghanaian animator is the CEO of AnimaxFYB Studios, an Accra-based animation studio that is aiming to be the world’s leading producers and providers of entertainment and information in authentic African stories. More about this Two of Africa’s biggest artistes caught up in a sensual “fever” [Video]How this black artist used cartoons to...

I found this to be quite interesting.

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