Triggerfish has opened a call for entries for a pan-African Story Artist Lab, sponsored by Netflix.<\/p>\n
Shortlisted applicants will have three months of paid skills development with international industry experts. Nathan Stanton, a story artist on Oscar-winning features such as Brave<\/em>, Finding Nemo<\/em> and Monsters Inc.<\/em>, will lead the training program.<\/p>\n The Story Artist Lab builds on the success of the Mama K\u2019s Team 4<\/em> all-female writers lab, which saw nine African women placed in the writing room for the first animated Netflix series from Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cStory artists translate screenplays into animatics, the loose first version of the movie that then shapes every step of animation that follows,\u201d said Tendayi Nyeke, Triggerfish\u2019s Zimbabwean-born development executive. \u201cSo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Triggerfish has opened a call for entries for a pan-African Story Artist Lab, sponsored by Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":20979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[138,6070],"class_list":["post-20978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-netflix","tag-triggerfish","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n