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Monster Entertainment has recently made a raft of sales for Irish-produced animation.  The Day Henry Met…?, award-winning animation produced by Wiggleywoo Ltd, has been sold to RTÉ in Ireland, RAI Cinema in Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Monaco, Malta and Italian speaking Switzerland, and Eesti Rahvusringhääling in Estonia for Free TV, IDIPPER in France, and TF1 Video in France, DROM,... Read more...

Culture Night 2019 is coming up on Friday, September 20th! And once again, you’ll find a fantastic line-up of events, as venues and public spaces across Ireland open their doors to host a program of free late-night entertainment, as part of an all-island celebration of arts, heritage and culture. This year the Brown Bag Films Dublin studio will be taking part in the fun... Read more...

In April 2019, Daily Madness launched their script-writing and development team, ‘Creating Madness’.  This Script-Editing/Head-Writing dream team is a new partnership by Shannon George and Kristina Yee. From America, but now Dublin-based, this dynamic duo have a second-to-none credit list to their names, and have worked on a number of productions for global clients such as Disney XD, Universal Pictures,... Read more...

Lindsey Adams and Shannon George, Founder and Creative Director, respectively, of Daily Madness Productions, will be heading to Cartoon Forum in September to present the company’s first in-house developed project, Pins and Nettles, to investors and buyers throughout Europe.  Pins and Nettles is a preschool series aimed at 2-4 year olds that follows the adventures of two hedgehogs who happen... Read more...

Animation Skillnet had a great summer of networking, learning, and upskilling! Straight back from a busy Annecy International Animated Film Festival, we launched into two intense and successful weeks of Bootcamps with recent graduates in June: the 2D Animation Graduates – Next Step Bootcamp and 3D Animation Graduates – Next Step Bootcamp offered 24 participants targeted workshops with Animation professionals... Read more...

This September we see Pink Kong Studios new show ‘Urban Tails’ being unleashed.  A 26 x 2min episode series that will have young people tuning in. ‘Urban Tails’ airs on the 30th September on RTÉjr. ‘Urban Tails’ is the ultimate Music Show starring Awesome Animals from YOUR city. Each episode is a brand-new music video filled with funny factual character... Read more...

Nickelodeon’s first original interactive series, TOT COP, has launched in the US on the Noggin app, on Amazon Prime and on the Noggin Roku channel. Created by Mooshku‘s Jason and Méabh Tammemägi, TOT COP follows the preschool adventures of Truman (Tot Cop) and his partner Officer Ruth as they solve cases, help those in need and make time for the... Read more...

Ink and Light is in production on Ollie, a 52 x 4minute animated pre-school series, with design and animation services also provided by Daily Madness. The series will begin airing on RTÉjr this winter. The poetic non-dialogue show tells the adventures of a little owl named Ollie and his friends as they explore the quiet city park that is their... Read more...

Summer 2018 saw the establishment of the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland CLG following a number of informal meetings of composers who create music for film/tv, animation, documentary, advertising, video games and VR in Ireland. The primary aims of the organisation is to improve the status and rights of professional composers for screen in Ireland, to improve visibility for these... Read more...