City Kidz
NextGen

Animation
Studios

Think bigger. Dream bigger. Build bigger.

City Kidz NexGen Animation Studios is creating a bold new animated franchise where kids learn entrepreneurship, creativity, financial literacy, and leadership through culture-driven storytelling and unforgettable characters.
WHAT IS CITY KIDZ NEXGEN?

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City Kidz NexGen Animation Studios is a new media platform designed to inspire young people to think bigger, dream bigger, and build bigger.

Born from a 21-year vision and rooted in real-world youth empowerment programs, City Kidz is building a nexgen media platform designed to inspire children and families to think bigger, dream bigger, and build bigger.

What began as financial literacy boot camps, entrepreneurship training, food science labs, and the real-life City Kidz Café has evolved into a cinematic animated universe focused on one powerful idea:

Teaching future generations how to create opportunity through entrepreneurship.

At its core, City Kidz is about helping kids understand:

City Kidz was the brainchild of Pastor Clinton Bush and Sonya Fleshman.

THE MISSION

Empowering the NexGen Through Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Ownership

The City Kidz Crew is united by one powerful purpose:

War on Poverty Through Entrepreneurship

Through teamwork, innovation, and ownership, the crew learns how to solve real-world problems while inspiring others to do the same, providing a foundation for a prosperous future.

Instead of waiting for change, they create it.

Through engaging real-life story lines told through sweeping cinematic animation, the City Kidz Crew learns that success is built through:

Through every adventure, challenge, and business opportunity, the crew discovers that the greatest superpower is the ability to create something meaningful for yourself and your community by creating value, building stability and owning your future.

MEET THE CREW

Meet the City Kidz Crew

A new generation of entrepreneurs, innovators, and future leaders is rising.

Led by Lil Clinton Bush™, Mango Manny™, Sonya the Tropical Storm™, Suga Shug™, Professor Pound™, Wally Waffle™, Boxxey Box™, and the rest of the City Kidz Crew, these unforgettable characters learn how to build businesses, solve problems, and navigate challenges while running the legendary City Kidz Café.

Each character is unique but shares the critical traits of success – creativity, leadership, hustle, innovation, confidence, courage, and teamwork.

THE WORLD

The City Kidz NexGen world uses music, culture and technology to teach the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, technology, business management and community empowerment.
Inside the City Kidz Universe
https://citykidznexgenstudios.com/

As the crew grows, they discover that success requires more than talent. It takes vision, discipline, perseverance, teamwork, and mastery of practical life skills around money, ownership, entrepreneurship, debt, investing, and economic resilience.

At the center of it all is the City Kidz Café — a creative clubhouse  and cultural touchstone where ideas become opportunity and learning becomes adventure. This is the cover of the original City Kidz soundtrack.  Have a listen!

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City Kidz Album

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MUSIC & CULTURE

Powered by Music. Driven by Culture.

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City Kidz blends animation, music, visual storytelling, and cultural energy into a new kind of media experience.

The sound of City Kidz is just as experientially important as the strong visual characters, both designed to inspire, energize, and connect audiences through emotionally driven storytelling and original creative expression.

The studio’s growing creative team spans animation, visual effects, music production, and storytelling talent across the United States and the Middle East. 

FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT

Built From Vision. Grounded in Purpose.

Pastor Clinton Bush is a Black social impact leader whose work has focused for decades on youth entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and community empowerment.

Twenty years ago in a storefront in Jacksonville, he launched the City Kidz Café and City Kidz Food Science initiatives, which helped inspire the foundation of the City Kidz universe. Through City Kidz NexGen Animation Studios, Pastor Bush is transforming those real-world experiences into a new generation of storytelling designed to inspire children and families globally.

About Us

Building the Future of Purpose-Driven Animation

City Kidz NexGen Animation Studios intends to change how children and families consume animation through an innovative, tech-forward approach to creating and producing powerfully rich content.
As a culturally driven empowerment franchise, we are developing a scalable intellectual property platform built around:
We have assembled an impressive team of seasoned investors, entrepreneurs, movie industry executives, and thought leaders to help guide our global vision. A group of talented up-and-coming professional creators, animators, directors, producers, musicians and visual effects experts are bringing our vision to life.
We’re headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., with hubs in Atlanta, Ga., Philadelphia, Pa., and the Middle East. Besides creating and growing the City Kidz franchise, our studio team can provide animation, video and storytelling services to organizations around the world looking to harness the power of imagination to bring an idea to life.

CONTACT US

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We’d love to hear from you! Join the City Kidz Crew movement!

citykidzcrew@citykidznexgenstudios.com

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LOCATION

Jacksonville, Florida USA