Irish Animation Awards at Dingle! Celebrating the outstanding talent of Irish Animation, VFX and Gaming Industries. The second Irish Animation Awards will take place on Saturday 25th March 2017 at the Dingle Skelligs Hotel in Dingle. Kindly sponsored by Irish Film Board and RTÉ , this is Animation Ireland’s biennial awards ceremony to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding creative talent we have... Read more...
Production has completed on Harry & Bip, a new animated comedy series for pre-schoolers. Produced by Ink & Light in Ireland and Muste ja Valo in Finland, the show airs on RTÉ 2 from 12th December and on Finland’s YLE in early 2017. The 15×2 minute series follows the exploits of Harry and Bip, two over-enthusiastic penguins who will... Read more...
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 44th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Puffin Rock’ is nominated in three categories Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children, Outstanding Achievement – Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production & Outstanding Achievement – Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production. Brown Bag Films‘... Read more...
JAM Media has signed a global publishing deal (excluding North America) with Egmont Publishing for Little Roy. A hybrid of live action and animation, Little Roy airs on both CBeebies and CBBC in the UK and follows the everyday adventures of five-year-old Roy O’Brien, as his cartoon abilities and enthusiasm cause mayhem. Egmont’s publishing programme for Little Roy includes TV... Read more...
Animation Ireland welcome the Minister Humphreys announcement of an economic analysis of Irish TV, film and animation sector. The study will examine the economic impact and potential of the Irish film, TV and animation sector. Animation Ireland had called on the Government in their 2016 pre-budget submission to ‘commission an economic analysis of the current value of the audio visual industry in Ireland, to assess the scale, strengths and contribution of the sector in terms of economic activity and employment levels and its potential to expand further.’ in their 2016 Pre-Budget Submission. Following an open tender process, Olsberg SPI... Read more...