Smiley and the Brainy Kids

After over thirty years in engineering, Abulu's love for gadgets and innovations led him into research and development in theoretical physics. Unable to produce these high-tech designs he began to write technical papers and essays in science futures called the "Imagine-that" series. His essay, "Visions Of The World In The New Millennium" was widely published in National newspapers in Nigeria, on many online magazines and as the cover story in the millennium edition of The Nigerian Society of Engineers magazine.
Still unsatisfied that his innovations were "not coming to life", Mr. Abulu began to write science fiction movie scripts. To turn these scripts to movies required computer visual effects and animation. At that time, fifteen years ago, animation techniques and tools were still exclusive to big digital studios. Internet access in Nigeria was not common and there was no animation school in the country. Abulu met a lot of "dead ends" and discouragement from close friends because it was clear to them that producing an animated movie would not only cost millions of Dollars, it would also require hundreds of trained animators working for several years to produce just one animated movie. Motivated by his motto, "If some people can do it, then I can too" Abulu took lessons from animation print magazines, using the demo software provided. After four years of self-training, Abulu produced his first short animation, "ABIKU". The nine minutes movie was inspired by Prof. Wole Soyinka's epic poem. In 2005, the movie won an award in Nigeria and brought Abulu into limelight.

Several short movies and commissioned animation project followed the ABIKU movie and Mr. Abulu's company, CGI AFRICA LTD became the leading digital studio in Nigeria.