Animation event in Dublin, Monday 15 February.
Prof Paul Wells (author of the key text Understanding Animation) is giving a keynote on future trends in Animation and a panel of speakers will be talking about different aspects of Animation research. The session runs from 10-1, Monday 15 February at the new conference facility in the Dublin City Council Civic Offices, Wood Quay. The event is part of a week long conference on Arts Research organised by the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media and the full conference schedule is available at http://www.gradcam.ie/art_research_public.php#who

Bookings at http://www.gradcam.ie/art_research_public.php
Queries to elaine.sisson@iadt.ie

Irish School of Animation Event
Enterprise Ireland supported Animation Ireland's sponsorship of Ballyfermot College's Irish School of Animation (ISA) January 2010 event. The ISA CON was a great success with approximately 100 people in attendance over the two days. Guests included Nick Ryan (Director/Writer/Producer), Louise Ridgeway (Head of Animation at Rare Ltd.), Stephen McFarlane (Art Director at Rare Ltd.), Damian Farrell (Creative Director at Caboom), Chris Dicker (Creative Director at TT Animation and Jason Ryan (Supervising Animator at Dreamworks Animation).

Cartoon Saloon's "Old Fangs" at Sundance
Kilkenny based Cartoon Saloon's "Old Fangs" is directed by Adrien Merigeau and is his first short film. The project was produced by Cartoon Saloon and is one of the 2009 Frameworks, a short film scheme in association with the IFB, RTE and Arts Council. The film was recently screened as an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 in USA.

  

Yowza Digital & Kavaleer Productions hook up to bring Hi & Lois to the small screen
Kavaleer Productions are delighted to announce that they have recently signed a co-development agreement with Yowza Digital for world famous and much loved comic strip, Hi & Lois.

Yowza, the well-established, highly respected animation & visual effects house based in Toronto, and Kavaleer Productions, one of Ireland’s top animation studios, will be working closely together in the coming months. With such a large body of work, fifty years in fact, featuring in over 1,100 daily newspapers there’s plenty to draw inspiration from.

“Kavaleer are very keen to get started in the New Year on such an engaging property and certainly look forward to working with the team at Yowza”, says Gary Timpson, Kavaleer’s Managing Director.

Yowza Animation Executive Producer, Pete Denomme says, “Hi & Lois is a great property with strong family values directly in-line with Yowza’s ongoing mandate to provide quality family friendly entertainment. Yowza is very excited to work with a studio of Kavaleer’s caliber and know this will be an important and creative collaboration.”

  

JAM Media have recently completed ROY – 13 X 28 minute Live action/animation series for BBC. Roy’s tale is of a cartoon boy growing up in the real world and finding out what it’s like to be different when you’re a cartoon. The series is currently airing on BBC1 Friday afternoons at 04.05pm and repeated weekends on BBC2 Sunday at 9.30am. 

JAM Media are in the final stages of development with their new 52 x 11 minute animation series entitled TILLY AND FRIENDS. The series centres around a little girl and her six animal pals, who all live together in a cosy yellow house. Based on a six-book series written and illustrated by Polly Dunbar, England's current darling of kids publishing. Walker has published all three of her previous books, including Penguin, which won several prestigious publishing awards last year. What Dunbar excels at is weaving pastel shades together to create rich narrative tapestries, and her simple toddler-relevant stories are presented with great timing and a fresh brand of humour. The series will begin Pre-Production in Spring 2010.