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8:00 AM January 16, 2021
Hamid Ibrahim, and his entertainment company is collaborating with Walt Disney Animation Studios to create an African sci-fi series for Disney+.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios is set to join forces with a University of Hertfordshire alumnus to create an original African sci-fi series for Disney+.
Hamid Ibrahim, and his entertainment company Kugali, will collaborate to make Iwájú1, which will be set in Lagos, Nigeria, and will explore the themes of class, innocence, and challenging the status quo.
He said: “I still remember watching the Lion King (1994) as a kid when I was growing up. Hearing them speaking Swahili, a language that I speak myself, in a big picture animation like that was inspiring. From that moment on I knew what I wanted to do; it was my dream to share the stories of my people with the world.
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Opetaia Foa i grew up in Samoa surrounded by the island s rhythms, sounds and songs. But surviving wasn t easy and his family moved to the city of Auckland in New Zealand. As he grew up in this new environment he began to look into his roots and started to make music about his voyager ancestors. It caught the eye of producers at Walt Disney Animation Studios who wanted him to co-write the music for their upcoming movie Moana, about a Pacific Island teenager trying to save her community. Opetaia Foa i made sure the smash hit movie stayed true to Pacific culture - writing the soundtrack s lyrics in Samoan and Tokelauan and turning to his daughter Olivia Foa i to sing.
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Here I present another one, the Gonzales renderer, written by me. It is heavily inspired by PBRT and written in Swift (with a few lines in C++ to call OpenEXR and Ptex). It is optimized only as far as to be able to render it in a reasonable amount of time on a free Google Cloud instance (8 vCPUS, 64GB RAM). As far as I know this is the only renderer able to render Moana not written in C/C++. I wrote it with vi and command line Swift on Ubuntu Linux and Xcode on macOS so it should be relatively painless to get it compiled on these platforms.
VFX Giant Weta Digital Hires Former Disney Animation Exec Ann Le Cam
Le Cam will serve as SVP of global talent and animation production at company founded by Peter JacksonBrian Welk | January 11, 2021 @ 12:49 PM
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Weta Digital, the visual effects company founded by Peter Jackson, has hired Ann Le Cam, a former Disney Animation executive, as its senior vice president of Global Talent and Animation Production.
The VFX giant is expanding into original content and animation, and the move follows CEO Prem Akkaraju joining Weta Digital back in June. Le Cam will be based in Weta Digital’s Los Angeles office and will report directly to Akkaraju.