Granity Studios

It is associated with United States. The record gives 2013 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Its recorded founders are Kobe Bryant. Its recorded seat is Newport Beach. The recorded field of activity is mass media. Recorded products are book.

• Name — Granity Studios • Hq Location — Newport Beach, California • Key People — Vanessa Bryant; CEO • Industry — Media • Products — Books, television, podcasts, films • Website — https: granitystudios.com

Granity Studios was launched by Kobe Bryant in 2013 to make films, television shows, novels, and other forms of media. In 2017, Granity Studios produced Dear Basketball, an animated short film based on Kobe Bryant's retirement poem in The Players' Tribune. It was directed and animated by Glen Keane with music by John Williams. At the 90th Academy Awards, Keane and Bryant won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Bryant became the first African-American to win the category and the first former professional athlete to be nominated and to win an Academy Award in any category. The film also won the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject and a Sports Emmy Award. It was also the first Oscar win for Keane, a veteran Disney animator. Beginning in 2018, Bryant wrote, produced, and hosted the television series Detail, which aired for multiple seasons on ESPN and ESPN+. It featured his insights into the game of basketball and in-depth analyses of games and individual players. On October 23, 2018, Bryant's book The Mamba Mentality: How I Play, with photographs and afterword by Andrew D. Bernstein, an introduction by Phil Jackson, and a foreword by Pau Gasol, was published by MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book looks back on his career. In the six months before his death in 2020, Bryant had been in talks with animator veterans Bruce W. Smith and Sergio Pablos about starting his own animation studio. At the time of his death, Bryant was working with Brazilian author Paulo Coelho on a children's book aimed at inspiring underprivileged children. After Bryant's death, Coelho deleted the draft, saying in an interview that "it didn't make any sense to publish without him." He did not say how many pages had been written or whether the book had a title. Bryant also co-wrote or -produced several young adult novels through Granity Studios: The Wizenard Series: Training Camp, Legacy and the Queen, and Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof. A fourth novel, The Wizenard Series: Season One, was released posthumously in March 2020. The Wizarenard Series: Season One topped the New York Times middle-grade hardcover list. Vanessa Bryant is the president and chief executive officer of Granity Studios.

• Year — Title — Created & Written by — Notes • 2017 — Musecage — Kobe Bryant — Produced by Granity Studios for ESPN and ESPN+ • 2018 — Detail — Kobe Bryant — Produced by Granity Studios for ESPN and ESPN+; 18 episodes as a host, 16 episodes as a writer for Bryant

• Year — Title — Written By — Created By — Notes — Ref • 2018–present — The Punies — Jon Haller — Kobe Bryant — 2 Seasons —