Irish Animation Success
While this blog is NOT about the Irish animation industry or intended to document the latest news in animation in Ireland or beyond, I think it would be remiss of me not to at least link out to news articles related to recent Irish animation successes.
The Irish Oscars 2010
Over the past 10 years the Irish animation industry has matured and become internationally recognised as a ‘safe pair of hands’ for companies who wish to outsource their animation production and creative development (creative mostly related to adverts I suspect). Recent Oscar nominations highlighted the vitality and high standards of the Irish animation sector. I’m not going to write a long article about this but rather I’ll provide links to recent news articles that do a far better job of covering the subject.
- Irish Oscar success
- Dubliner among the Oscar winners
- Cartoon Saloon fans celebrate Oscar appearance at hometown Oscar party
- Oscar nominees get vote of approval
- Oscar for art of possible goes to . . . Ballyfermot
- Maeve Dineen: We need to get animated about our talented cartoon studios
- An Animated Irish Invasion
- The Secret of Kells
Perhaps the international coverage Ireland has gained from these successes will make our national broadcasters reconsider their strategy regarding finance of indigenous animation programming?