{"id":23440,"date":"2022-07-13T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:25:07","slug":"studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Smokescreen Debuts First Animated Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black-owned independent animation company Studio Smokescreen has premiered its first animated short, <em>Tent Sale<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was produced with a team of young animation talent from underrepresented and marginalized communities, fulfilling Studio Smokescreen\u2019s purpose as a \u201cbridge studio\u201d to discover, support, train and prepare talent for careers with larger companies and studios.<\/p>\n<p>The company was founded by Kris Wemberly, an animation director, executive producer and storyboard artist, and his brother Chase Wimberly, who leads the business side of the company. Kris most recently brought his skills to Walt Disney Television Animation\u2019s upcoming <em>Firebuds<\/em> and Disney\u2019s<em> Elena of Avalor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kris has held roles at Nickelodeon Animation, Universal Pictures and Cartoon Network, while Chase has worked for various digital media companies as chief strategy officer and head of corporate development.<\/p>\n<p>Studio Smokescreen functions as an animation production partner, a creative development and production studio, and as a training ground for new artistic talent. It is currently in development on projects with multiple partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we work on exciting animation projects we develop ourselves and animate for studio, network and streaming partners, we ultimately want to bring greater diversity to the animation industry as a whole,\u201d Kris said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black-owned independent animation company Studio Smokescreen has premiered its first animated short, Tent Sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[6575],"class_list":["post-23440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-studio-smokescreen","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Studio Smokescreen Debuts First Animated Short - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Studio Smokescreen Debuts First Animated Short - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Black-owned independent animation company Studio Smokescreen has premiered its first animated short, Tent Sale.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-13T13:00:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-13T15:25:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/StudioSmokescreen-TentSale-0722.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"340\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short\/\",\"name\":\"Studio Smokescreen Debuts First Animated Short - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-13T13:00:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-13T15:25:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/studio-smokescreen-debuts-first-animated-short\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Studio Smokescreen Debuts First Animated Short\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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