Kilkenny based Lighthouse Studios continues on its growth trajectory, recently announcing a recruitment drive for Little Ellen, a new Warner Bros show about the life of a young Ellen DeGeneres. While some of the studio’s usual platforms for talent attraction, such as job fairs and animation festivals, have taken on new forms in 2020, adaptability is the name of the... Read more...
A year on from its launch, Creating Madness has been keeping busy on several exciting projects. Their creation, Goat Girl, was recently pitched at Cartoon Forum to overwhelming success, landing in the Top 10 Most Viewed pitches for the week. When not working on the Daily Madness development slate, Shannon George and Kristina Yee have continued to provide Story Editing... Read more...
Studio 9 is one of the lucky 10 Irish studios awarded a commission from RTE to make a 2 minute animation ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas- a contemporary telling‘. The studio worked with writer Saoirse Anton on a contemporary version of the classic Clement Clarke Moore poem A Visit from St. Nicholas . The poem has been reimagined for modern Ireland, celebrating... Read more...
Igloo Animations have producing an Irish Animated Comedy Show titled Fantasy Ireland, a 13 X 11 min series set in a fantastical version of contemporary Ireland. The award-winning studio has teamed up with Ciaran Morrison and Mick O’Hara (Podge and Rodge, Zig and Zag) to take a new spin on classic Irish legends in the world of today. FANTASY IRELAND is an outrageous post-watershed... Read more...
Cartoon Saloon’s latest feature film WolfWalkers, directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews with many reviewers calling it “the best animated film of 2020”. WolfWalkers follows a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, as she journeys to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack.... Read more...