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Disney Petitioned and Accused of Robbery for Trade marking the ‘Hakuna Matata’ phrase.

By Dory Jackson

 

The phrase "Hakuna Matata," which was popularized by Disney's The Lion King in 1994, roughly translates to "no problem" in Swahili. However, Disney may not have "no worries" after the industry giant was slammed by a petition that accused the company of "colonialism and robbery" for trademarking the phrase.
Disney first applied to have "Hakuna Matata" trademarked in 1994, but its request was later granted in 2003. Shelton Mpala, a Zimbabwean activist, lodged a petition via Change.org against The Walt Disney Company ahead of the release of its anticipated live-action remake of The Lion King in July 2019. Mpala urged for people to sign his petition to say "NO to DISNEY or any corporations/individuals looking to trademark languages, terms or phrases they didn't invent."
"The word 'hakuna' means 'there is not here' while 'matata' means "problems.' Hakuna Matata has been used by most Kiswahili-speaking countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo," he wrote. "Disney can't be allowed to trademark something that it didn't."
In speaking with BBC on Tuesday, Mpala elaborated with his disdain for Disney's decision to trademark the catchphrase. He suggested he created the petition in hopes to sway Disney to reverse its action.

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Support: The Passport of Mallam Ilia

Magic Carpet studios bring to life, Cyprian Ekwensi’s 1960 short novel titled:

 ‘The Passport of Mallam Ilia’ in 2D animation.

  
First published in 1960, The Passport of Mallam Ilia tells the story of Mallam Ilia’s quest to avenge the death of his beautiful wife Zarah at the hands of Mallam Usuman. Although a fairly short story, (the book is 100 pages long) the plot spans several decades. It starts some time within the late 1800s or early 1900s and ends in 1947 or maybe early 1948.

The animated movie featured the voice talent of veteran Nigerian artist, Sadiq Daba and a host of others. Get the full gist on how to support this project at : http://iliathemovie.com/

 
 

Elliot the Littlest Reindeer, brings both Hollywood and Nollywood together

 The voice talents of Nigerian comedian Ayo Makun and Omoni Oboli has been featured in latest Hollywood Christmas animation movie titled 'Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer'.  Directed by, Jennifer Westcott and featured Holly wood voice talents of Josh Hutcherson, Samantha Bee, Martin Short and

Ayo Makun

John Cleese.  This would be one of the first collaborative efforts in an animated feature between Hollywood and Africa. Originally the movie hits select theaters in the U.S on November 30th and expected to be to be shown in selected cinemas in Nigeria from the 14^th December, 2018, during the holiday season.

Omoni Oboli

Josh Hutcherson

 The movie is about a particular miniature horse that dreams big (Josh Hutcherson). Even though he knew that he was not a reindeer, he still was determined to make it into becoming one of Santa's reindeers because one of the reindeer was about to resign. He traveled to the North Pole with his friend, Hazel, the goat, to participate in Santa’s sleigh team competition.

 

The Flinger nose crew expects more of this collaboration of such between Africa and several other studios of the world in the near future. We wish the movie to be a chart breaking one!  

HOW CAN I BECOME AN ANIMATION PROGRAMMER?

QUESTION ON QUORA

I think most of the answers have been given already, but let me try to answer this, with reference to the original way the question was phrased; that is how can you become an animation programmer?  First I need to let you know that programming is another level of Art that has more to do with both your cognitive and analytical skills. So it is usually not visual like Drawings or Animation, but has a lot to do with abstract codes and Mathematical formulae that model real life situations.  

At times, animation directors may choose to incorporate real-life simulation over key- Frame animation approach in a project to attain realistic outputs. This is where the SIMULATOR or animation programmer comes in play. If that is the path you want to take, apart from bring some one that appreciates Arts, you don’t necessarily need to be a good Artist; however, you need to understand in Mathematics, Physics and any C-based programming language, preferably C++ as this will enable you program in the  Open Graphics Language (GL) or Direct X, in 3D animation environments. 

 Bon voyage

TOONY TITBIT

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