- By Danny Fullbrook
- BBC Information, Hertfordshire
Picture supply, College of Hertfordshire
The co-creator of a brand new Disney sequence set in futuristic Nigeria has thanked his UK college for making him realise his potential.
Hamid Ibrahim co-founded pan-African leisure firm Kugali Media after graduating from the College of Hertfordshire in 2017.
The corporate has collaborated with Disney on Iwájú, a six-part animated sequence which was launched on Wednesday.
Mr Hamid stated the college “helped me realise my full potential”.
He continued: “Learning right here developed my confidence and abilities, permitting me to change into one of the best I might be.”
Mr Hamid, who’s chief government officer at Kugali Media, was born in Uganda and spent most of his years rising up in Kenya.
He then moved to the UK the place he studied 3D animation and visible results on the college in Hatfield.
After graduating he labored on characteristic movies such because the remake of The Lion King earlier than co-founding a brand new firm to inform tales impressed by African tradition.
Mr Hamid stated: “I wished to provide one thing again for the remainder of the world and the primary concept that got here to thoughts was to inform African tales.
“I need to present the world what Africa can do and Iwájú goes to try this.”
The leisure firm has targeted on telling futuristic African tales by means of comedian books, artwork and augmented actuality.
It was beforehand reported by leisure web site Deadline that the remark caught the eye of Walt Disney Animation Studios’s chief inventive officer Jennifer Lee, resulting in the creation of Iwájú.
The present is ready in a futuristic model of Lagos and follows a younger lady known as Tola and her finest good friend Kole.
The sequence is the primary authentic animated sequence from Walt Disney Animation Studios because it was based in 1923.
Disney Tv Animation has developed a lot of the firm’s different tv initiatives.
All six episodes of Iwájú started streaming on Disney Plus from Wednesday.
