History WesternAnimation / Zafari

* AnAesop: Difference and the celebration/encouragement of it is an overarching theme of the series.

''Zafari'' made its world premiere in July 2018 on the French channel [=FranceTV=], and has since popped up on [=NatGeoKids=] in Latin America, [=TinyPOP=] in the UK, Spacetoon in the Middle East, Creator/{{CBC}} in Canada, Rai [=YoYo=] in Italy, Creator/AmazonPrime Video, and Creator/NBCUniversal's streaming network Creator/{{Peacock}}. The series is distributed by [=NBCUniversal=] and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation Television. A second season has since debuted.

A Canadian AllCGICartoon created by David Dozoretz and produced by Montreal's Creator/DigitalDimension, ''Zafari'' is a show that teaches kids that our differences should not just be tolerated, but celebrated, encouraging young viewers to be comfortable with who they are and accepting of others who might be different. Brought to life through Creator/EpicGames's Unreal Engine 4, ''Zafari'' is a milestone in TV history for being the first ever animated series to be entirely created using [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine a real-time video game engine]].

A Canadian AllCGICartoon created by David Dozoretz, ''Zafari'' is a show that teaches kids that our differences should not just be tolerated, but celebrated, encouraging young viewers to be comfortable with who they are and accepting of others who might be different. Brought to life through Creator/EpicGames's Unreal Engine 4, ''Zafari'' is a milestone in TV history for being the first ever animated series to be entirely created using [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine a real-time video game engine]].

* GrumpyBear: Antonio is generally this, as his personal embarrassment with himself as a pink lion, makes him rather frustrated with his lot in life. However, he does have a soft heart underneath.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Quincy is a tarsier, a type of primate from Southeast Asia most people have probably never heard of.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Quincy is often identified as a monkey by the other characters despite actually being a tarsier (thus a prosimian primate), but there are two actual monkey characters on the show; those being the leader of the Zafarians, Babatua, and the romantic and artistic Colette.

! Tropes of the series:

* SupremeChef: Oscar is both a food lover and a food expert, and often creates dishes for the other Zafarians. To quote his bio, "He knows what he likes and likes what he knows, and what he knows is food."

In the natural world, some animals are just born different from the rest of their species. Take Zoomba for example, an African elephant inexplicably born with zebra stripes. Shunned by his herd as a possible ill omen, poor Zoomba was forced to leave his family for something he couldn't help being. But at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Zoomba discovers a marvelous place unlike anywhere else in the world - Zafari, a valley populated by animals that, just like him, were born with unusual physical traits that made them unique not just among their species but in the entire animal kingdom. With the help of the other one-of-a-kind animals of this very special place, Zoomba learns that his differences do not make him a freak of nature but an individual to be appreciated and admired for what makes him so different from everyone else. And thus is the premise of ''Zafari''.

''Zafari'' made its world premiere in July 2018 on the French channel [=FranceTV=], and has since popped up on [=NatGeoKids=] in Latin America, [=TinyPOP=] in the UK, Spacetoon in the Middle East, Creator/AmazonPrime Video, and Creator/NBCUniversal's streaming network Creator/{{Peacock}}. The series is distributed by [=NBCUniversal=] and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation Television. A second season has since debuted.

* MeaningfulName: Xiang and Fan are pandas with inverted coloration whose name means "opposite" in Chinese.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Quincy is a tarsier, a type of primate from Southeast Asia most people have probably never heard of.

A Canadian AllCGICartoon created by David Dozoretz, ''Zafari'' is a show that teaches kids that our differences should not just be tolerated, but celebrated, encouraging young viewers to be comfortable with who they are and accepting of others who might be different. Brought to life through Creator/EpicGames's Unreal Engine 4, ''Zafari'' is a milestone in TV history for being the first ever animated series to be entirely animated using [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine a real-time video game engine]].

In the natural world, some animals are just born different from the rest of their species. Take Zoomba for example, an African elephant inexplicably born with zebra stripes. Shunned by his herd as a possible ill omen, poor Zoomba was forced to leave his family for something he couldn't help being. But at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Zoomba discovers a marvelous place unlike anywhere else in the world - Zafari, a valley populated by other animals that, just like him, were born with unusual physical traits that made them unique not just among their species but in the entire animal kingdom. With the help of the other one-of-a-kind animals of this very special place, Zoomba learns that his differences do not make him a freak of nature but an individual to be appreciated and admired for what makes him so different from everyone else. And thus is the premise of ''Zafari''.

''Zafari'' made its world premiere in July 2018 on the French channel [=FranceTV=], and has since popped up on [=NatGeoKids=] in Latin America, [=TinyPOP=] in the UK, Spacetoon in the Middle East, Creator/AmazonPrime Video, and Creator/NBCUniversal's streaming network Peacock. The series is distributed by [=NBCUniversal=] and Creator/{{Dreamworks}}. A second season has since debuted.

A Canadian AllCGICartoon created by David Dozoretz, ''Zafari'' is a show that teaches kids that our differences should not just be tolerated, but celebrated, encouraging young viewers to be comfortable with who they are and accepting of others who might be different. Brought to life through Creator/EpicGames's Unreal Engine 4, ''Zafari'' is a milestone in TV history for being the first ever animated series to be animated using [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine a real-time video game engine]].

A Canadian AllCGICartoon created by David Dozoretz, ''Zafari'' is a show that teaches kids that our differences should not just be tolerated, but celebrated, encouraging young viewers to be comfortable with who they are and accepting of others who might be different. Brought to life through Creator/EpicGames's Unreal Engine, ''Zafari'' is a milestone in TV history for being the first ever animated series to be animated using [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine a real-time video game engine]].