Lion Forge, the U.S.-based animation studio behind Oscar-winning brief Hair Love, has introduced a brand new partnership with Folktellers Studios to develop and produce leisure historical past toon Hero’s Journey The Collection. The venture will deliver the tales of Black artists who rose to fame amid racial segregation within the U.S.
The sequence retraces the route of the nationwide “Chitlin Circuit” toured by Black artists, musicians and comedians from the Nineteen Thirties-60s. Via the eyes of an emcee named Theophilus George Odell, viewers will uncover the origins of legends like Jimi Hendrix, The Jackson 5, BB King, Ike and Tina Turner, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor, from the fan-packed juke joints and theaters of the Circuit to worldwide acclaim.
Lion Forge, previously Lion Forge Animation, will oversee animation improvement and manufacturing below not too long ago appointed President & CCO Stephanie Sperber, who joined the studio to assist information its enlargement to stay motion after stepping down as President of Think about Youngsters+Household in March. She experiences to Lion Forge CEO & Founder David Steward II and to COO Edward Hamati.
Hero’s Journey The Collection marks the second introduced collaboration between Lion Forge and Folktellers. Final yr, the businesses introduced they had been teaming up for an animated sequence adaptation of Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook, the award-winning middle-grade fantasy e book sequence created by Folktellers co-founder Josef Bastian. The Detroit-based studio is co-founded by author and tech innovator Stephen Sadler.
[source: TBI]
