Comfort Arthur

Comfort Arthur is a British-born Ghanaian animator, graphic designer, visual artist and editor. She is best known for the animation works such as Black Barbie, The Cursed Ones and Children of the Mountain. She is the founder of "The Comfy Studio" which is a multimedia studio based in Ghana.

Personal life She was born in the United Kingdom. She obtained her bachelor's degree in graphic design from Central Saint Martins and completed her master's degree in animation from the Royal College of Art.

Career During her time with Royal College of Art, Arthur won the first prize for the Best Emerging Motion Graphics Designer at the Real Ideas Studio in 2009. She also won the First prize for Animation/Moving Image in 2007. After graduation, she worked in a supermarket for seven years. However in December 2012, she left London and moved to Ghana as a film editor with the help of her sister. Then she joined with the Sparrow Productions and worked for three years. In 2015 she became a freelancer, and started working her own personal projects. In 2016, she made the animation poetry short film Black Barbie and screened over 40 international film festivals. The short received critics acclaim and nominated Arthur for many awards as well as Best Animation Award at the Ghana Movie Awards 2016. The poetry won the award for the Best Spoken Piece film at the Real Times Film Festival in 2016.

Meanwhile, Arthur won the award for the Best Female director at the BlackStar International Film Festival as well for Black Barbie.

Filmography Year Film Role Genre Ref. 2015 The Cursed Ones Isoke Film 2015 The Cursed Ones data wrangler Film 2015 Grey Dawn Script continuity Film 2016 Children of the Mountain Female Resident Doctor Film 2016 Black Barbie Director, Animator, Writer, Producer Short film 2017 Yaa Slave 1 Short film 2017 Keteke Animator Film