Commissioned animation
Character animation, explainer and campaign work for brands, agencies and development organisations. Delivered in English, Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo — voiced and subtitled, not dubbed as an afterthought.
Keffi, Nigeria · Established 2025
We own
our stories.
NOORVALE is an African animation studio. We take commissions from brands and development organisations, and we build original worlds of our own. The first is Zaydora.
Why this studio
Africa has forty million people in its diaspora and the continent’s fastest-growing market for video. It does not have an animation studio brand.
African stories reach global audiences mostly when someone else adapts them. We would rather make them here, own them here, and license outward from a position of holding the rights. That is a slower way to build a studio and a much better way to build a company.
Capabilities
Original stories
We develop and own our own IP. Zaydora is the first: a world drawn from African myth, built to travel. Owned stories cannot be withdrawn by a rights holder, outbid, or licensed away.
Sound and score
Voice direction, sound design and original score, produced in-house. Local-language performance is a craft, not a translation step.
The first world
ZAYDORA
A world drawn from African myth — light, and the valley that keeps it. Zaydora begins as short animation, free wherever the audience already is, and grows from there. Not a pitch deck. A production.
What we’re buildingWhere it goes