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We make Afro-anime: cinematic character animation drawn from African pattern, craft and myth. Our first journey is SATU: Voyage to the 8, set somewhere in Africa.
SATU: Voyage to the 8
Somewhere in Africa, under the sepia haze of the Corex.
Satu is three feet of carved Baobantium wood-grain alloy. Who made Satu? Wait to find out. Satu pilots the starship Nyota-1, whose name is Swahili for "star".
SATU: Voyage to the 8 is an original Afro-anime feature from NubixLab Animation Studio, made for 2D and 3D.
- Setting
- Somewhere in Africa
- Format
- Animated feature
- Style
- Afro-Anime
- Status
- In production
What's coming next
Films and series in the works at NubixLab. Dates are announced here first.
Every world NubixLab is building, from first voyage to golden stool.
- SATUVoyage to the 8Coming soon
- SATUReturn of the BrokenIn the pipeline
- SATU VerseAyo NightIn the pipeline
- SATU VerseTaiwo MoonIn the pipeline
- SATU VerseSkull MasterIn the pipeline
- ZumaZuma the African GiantIn the pipeline
- ZumaZuma and His Golden StoolIn the pipeline
- GoljansA Goljan's Tale2027
Satu
Stories carved from pattern
NubixLab Animation Studio is the home of SATU: Voyage to the 8 and A Goljan's Tale. We build original worlds rooted in African design and storytelling, and bring them to the screen with an animation pipeline built for the way films are made now.
Every frame starts from a locked screenplay and a world bible, so each character looks and moves the same from the first shot to the last.
Story
Original screenplays, written and locked before a single shot is made.
World
Character and world bibles with canon heights, materials and rules.
Pipeline
Shot-by-shot production built for AI-assisted animation.
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