Speakers include the longest-serving writer and producer of The Simpsons RENDR, a new creative industries festival taking place in Belfast next month has added to its blockbuster lineup of speakers with leading talent from the animation industry whose credits include The Simpsons, WolfWalkers, My Father’s Dragon and upcoming animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. Taking place over two evenings... Read more...
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First Report on Cultural Impact of Section 481 Tax Incentive for the Creative Screen Industry published by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
The Cultural Dividend Generated by Ireland’s Section 481 Film and Television Incentive is the first report of its kind and examines the impact that Section 481 has delivered for Irish society, for audiences at home and abroad, and for professionals working in the creative screen industry in Ireland. The cultural dividend is the collective value of the cultural impact and industry... Read more...
Australia’s Princess Pictures has acquired Irish Animation Studio Boulder Media
The deal closed in October and provides Princess Pictures expanded production service capabilities for its in-house and third-party projects. Established in 2000, Boulder Media is one of Ireland’s most prolific animation studios. Their considerable portfolio of content produced over its 22 years have garnered numerous awards and nominations, such as BAFTAs, Emmys, ANNIEs, IFTAs, British Animation Awards, Cartoons on the... Read more...
BAFTA win and Emmy nominations for Lighthouse Studios
The team at Lighthouse Studios had plenty of reasons to celebrate this quarter. El Deafo, the 2D special produced at Lighthouse for Apple TV+, won the studio’s first BAFTA Children & Young People’s award in the Content for Change category at November’s ceremony in London. This is the third award for El Deafo in 2022, after Prix Jeunesse and Humanitas... Read more...
Little Moon Animation is the first in Europe to achieve broadcast of an animated series produced through Unreal Engine 5
Dublin, Ireland – November 17th 2022 – Little Moon Animation, an Irish based CGI studio,has joined the growing list around the world as one of the first studios in Europe to achievethe broadcast of a series produced through Unreal Engine. Fia’s Fairies made its broadcast debut on RTEjr on October 31st, 2022. Created by LittleMoon Animation, the original series (26... Read more...