{"id":448935,"date":"2026-02-04T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448935\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:10:11","slug":"wnba-star-angel-mccoughtry-launches-animation-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448935\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Angel McCoughtry Launches Animation Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Former WNBA star Angel McCoughtry\u2019s McCoughtry Entertainment is getting into the animation game via a partnership with production company Digital Epic Studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe aim is to make film, TV, digital media and branded content in the short and long form animated space. Digital Epic Studio, a former marketing agency set up in 2019, is led by founder and creative director Ahmad Hamass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcCoughtry Entertainment says it will lead the slate from a creative standpoint while Digital Epic Studio will handle production. The partners say the development slate includes a feature, animated shorts, and formats for digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOur goal is simple,\u201d McCoughtry Entertainment said in a statement. \u201cWe provide animation that meets people where they are \u2014 whatever the vision, whatever the style, whatever the platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs we previously reported, two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time All Star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/angel-mccoughtry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McCoughtry<\/a>\u00a0is lining up her feature directorial debut, a thriller called\u00a0Apt 6B. Her debut short film launches on Amazon this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Former WNBA star Angel McCoughtry\u2019s McCoughtry Entertainment is getting into the animation game via a partnership with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[96171,99,434],"class_list":["post-448935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-mccoughtry","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}