Black-Owned Anime Studio Makes History in Japan
Tokyo Speaks
English - September 22, 2020 13:59 - 1 hour - 51.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsRelationships Society & Culture Places & Travel Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Episode 87: In 2016, Arthell Isom and his twin brother, Darnell Isom, founded D'ART Shtajio Inc. - the first foreign-owned anime studio in Japan. Arthell and his studio has worked on projects for Netflix, Grammy Award-winning music artist, The Weeknd, and was recently featured in Pharrell and Jay-Z's "Entrepreneur" music video. In this episode we discuss the following topics:
Arthell's love for illustration and background painting for anime
Studying at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco
Black culture & anime
Working on projects for The Weeknd
Being featured in Pharrell and Jay-Z's music video
Working for Ghost in the Shell Art Director, Hiromasa Ogura
Founding in his own anime studio in Japan
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