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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

"Iwájú" Visual Effects Supervisor Marlon West on Bringing Afrofuturism to Animation

The Credits: Disney+ just released an exciting new 6-part animated series called Iwájú, representing the first collaboration with an outside studio in its partnership with Pan-African storytelling company Kugali Media. Kugali’s co-founders created a uniquely African story, which takes place in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria. In fact, every single character that appears in Iwájú is Nigerian.

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