SHOF
Shof is an Annie and Emmy nominated illustrator and director born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2005 he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, attended the Memphis College of Art and graduated with a BFA in illustration. He began his career as a character designer and digital sculptor for video game studios at Activision and Sony. He worked as an art director for Jam City San Diego from 2016-2019. As a freelancer his clients have included Disney, Netflix, West Studio, Oddbot, Titmouse and Triggerfish Studios.
In 2014, he illustrated, Kickstarted and published Outcasts of Jupiter, an African futurist comic with his brother, Shobo Coker. He then worked on the 2017 animated documentary, Liyana, which has won several awards including Best Documentary at the LA Film Festival and Grand Prize at the New York Children’s Film Festival.
In 2022 he co-created and released New Masters (Image Comics), a science fiction, adventure/heist graphic novel set in Eko, Nigeria. He also directed Moremi, an animated short in the Kizazi Moto series for Triggerfish and Disney.
He is influenced by old 90s cartoons like Transformers and Knights of the Magical Light, Franco-Belgian comics and animation styles, Miyazaki, Wong Kar-wai, Celine Sciamma, and Ozu films.
He has a deep appreciation for stillness in nature in all its splendor. He’s interested in telling stories that express poetic truths about our shared experience and loves working with equally driven and creative people from all backgrounds to elucidate those interests.
He currently lives in Atlanta, USA, but still harbors hopes to one day play for the Nigerian football team at the olympics.
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Notable Features
Cartoon Brew feature and interview
Residencies and Talks:
MICA Animation Lecture 2022
Light Grey Art Lab Iceland Travel Residency 2019
Art Quarter Budapest Residency 2019
Springfield Arts Council Teaching Residency 2019
ISGR Gothenburg Character Design Workshop 2020, 2021
