This Pan-African Animated series is helping Disney bring animation from studios on almost every continent to their millions of Disney+ subscribers. Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire takes advantage of the anthology format to bring together African sci-fi and magical realism stories, with animators from Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe each putting in futuristic and fantastical spins on stories from their cultures.
“That was really a difficult practice in terms of lip-syncing, trying to put the shapes at the right frame, having this stepping motion, that I found so beautiful, but in CGI, people are not used to seeing that,” Mukii told OkayAfrica last year. Kizazi Moto was also nominated in four other categories at Saturday’s ceremony in Los Angeles.