Animation Director Joseph Wallace has created animated sequences for ‘The Sparks Brothers’ a new feature documentary film by Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver). The film follows five decades of the iconic American pop-rock band Sparks and the founding brothers Ron and Russell Mael, drawing on archive, animation and interviews to bring their story to... Read more...
Brown Bag Films are thrilled to share that Wild Kratts has won the first-ever Shaw Rocket Fund Kids’ Choice Award presented at this year’s 2021 Canadian Screen Awards! Check out the Kratt Brothers video acceptance speech here! The Shaw Rocket Fund Kids’ Choice Award was developed for the CSAs with the goal of celebrating great Canadian content for kids, and to give those... Read more...
The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) have announced the winners of the 2021 NAMIC Vision Awards and we’re delighted to announce that Brown Bag Film’s Doc McStuffins has won Best Animation! The NAMIC Vision Awards honor original programming content created for television and digital platforms that best reflect the increasingly diverse, multiethnic and multicultural viewing audience. “Programmers and storytellers playing a pivotal role... Read more...
Pink Kong Studios short film “The Dead Hands of Dublin” was the winner of “Best Sound Design” at this year’s (virtual) Irish Animation Awards. The sound design and mix on animated short was carried out by the wonderfully talented Francisco Rios and Mark Fitzpatrick from our post house partners, Gorilla Post Productions. Along with this “The Dead Hands of Dublin”... Read more...
In June 2021 Screen Ireland and Animation Ireland announced its recipients of a new development fund “Animation Concept and Innovation Fund”. Pink Kong Studios is among the 10 projects selected and is now in development with this new innovative project. Project proposal: StoryVerse- Myth Masters is a multi-player augmented reality game for children consisting of highly entertaining gameplay coupled with engaging epic... Read more...
CRYPTIX is another TV Series in development from Pink Kong Studios. This September the series will launch its proof-of-concept trailer at the world-renowned market in Toulouse at Cartoon Forum 2021. More about the series: Why is it that Unicorns, Nessie or a Yeti have never been caught…because they are stealthy Kick-Ass Ninjas of course! With the realms in peril, The... Read more...
Studio 9 were delighted to be awarded a Concept and Creative Innovation Development Fund from Screen Ireland. They applied to develop their skills in puppet making for stop motion. Currently they produce animations that use 3D paper sets with replacement paper characters – and while this technique has produced some magical results, the move to animating 3D puppets in a... Read more...
On Sunday July 25th, 2021, the 33rd edition of the Galway Film Fleadh ended after another outstanding year. This year the Fleadh moved outdoors, a first in the festival’s history and was a huge success in the summer sunshine. Festival goers were also able to see the best of Irish and international film premieres online and in cinema. The annual awards ceremony... Read more...
Sky Kids have commissioned 20 x 10 minute episodes of Wildseed’s school-based animation series ‘Not The End Of The World’ based upon the multi-award winning graduation film of the same name by UK creator and series director Jack Bennett. The series has now been renamed “Dodo” and will commence broadcast. The series follows the adventures of Joe Connolly (11) in... Read more...
In the four years since Lighthouse Studios was first founded, its crew has grown from a handful of animators to over 250 artists from across the globe. Drawing on this abundance of diverse talent, the studio recently decided to take the plunge and create its very own animated short. The move represents a significant step forward in the studio’s ambitions... Read more...