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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...

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...

Paper Owl Films, the production company behind the award winning series Pablo, launched its latest show, Happy the Hoglet, in November.. The first 26 x 7’ episodes of Happy the Hoglet launched on 14th November 2022 and continue to air on littleBe and RTÉjr throughout December.  Happy is a grumpy, smelly hedgehog who has fleas. If he can make a... Read more...

Paper Panther were very excited by the success of their first outing to Cartoon Forum. Their trailerfor Little Whale premiered on Variety Magazine accompanied by an interview with director CarolFreeman:“Little Whale was one of the early-breakouts at this year’s Cartoon Forum. Following their Tuesdaypitch, series director Carol Freeman and producer Chris Hees greeted a steady stream of Frenchstudios and U.K.... Read more...

Studio 9 are delighted to have won a new commission that is a collaboration between CÚRAM, The National Talent Animation Academy and Ardán. CÚRAM is a Science Foundation Ireland research centre based in Galway.  They are looking for 2 animations to explain 2 research projects that they have been developing at the centre. The second piece of good news is... Read more...