BuzzFeed Studios has announced that its Animation Lab, home to hit short-form animated channels across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, like The Land of Boggs, Chikn Nuggit, Weird Helga and theGood Advice Cupcake, is expanding its current slate of content with a new Dungeons & Dragons live-play series and two new Spanish language Latine shows.
BuzzFeed Studios Animation Lab’s new programming includes:
Magic & Stuff (Releasing 31 May 2024 on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook) – BuzzFeed’s first true D&D show led by an all queer female-identifying cast.
Puerco Y Babosa (Available now on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok) – the edgy, hilarious animated series that captures the essence of growing up Chicano!
El Mundo De Boggs (Available now on YouTube) – The Land of Boggs Spanish language spin-off.
BuzzFeed Studios Animation Lab head Zee Myers stated, “We are thrilled to be announcing our exciting new animated properties for 2024 – Magic & Stuff, Puerco y Babosa and El Mundo De Boggs. The BuzzFeed Animation Lab has seen huge success and explosive growth for our animated properties and our new class of creators are making wonderful diverse content for 2024 – I can’t wait to share them with old and new fans.”
BuzzFeed enters the Dungeons & Dragons space with Magic & Stuff, which will release on YouTube weekly starting 31 May with eight half-hour episodes. The animated segments will also act as built-in short form vertical content for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Shorts. The cast includes Meredith Kesh as Freddie, a demon paladin who gives great hugs; drag queen, Syzygy, playing Mrs. Readings, a human bard “grandmother” – just don’t ask where her ex-husbands went; Elisabeth Riley as Felyn, a vampire rogue who loves gaslighting, gatekeeping, and girlbossing; Elizabeth Gottlieb, playing Ikky the Wizard, a possum sorcerer who’s just a little guy; and seasoned Dungeon Master Jasmine “ThatBronzeGirl” Bhullar, actress and writer for Dimension20, DesiQuest, and Critical Role, as well as Twitch content creator.
Magic & Stuff is produced for BuzzFeed Studios by creators and executive producers Elisabeth Riley and Meredith Kesh, director Derek Benig, and head of the Animation Lab Jun Zee Myers.
The new animated series Puerco Y Babosa brings audiences into the world of Latine culture as it captures the essence of growing up Chicano. It marks BuzzFeed Studios’ first animated series dedicated to Latine upbringing in America, with a focus on sibling rivalry.
El Mundo De Boggs is a full Spanish language dub and subtitles spinoff of the widely popular social shorts, The Land of Boggs. This is part of a wider initiative to expand Animation Lab properties to new territories and languages.