Cartoon Saloon is an Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 company which provides illustration

Illustration

An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...

, design, animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

, film

Film

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 and TV services. The company is based in Kilkenny

Kilkenny

Kilkenny is a city and is the county town of the eponymous County Kilkenny in Ireland. It is situated on both banks of the River Nore in the province of Leinster, in the south-east of Ireland...

 City. The company developed the successful cartoon series Skunk Fu!

Skunk Fu!

Skunk Fu! is an Irish animated television series and IFTA award winning children's television series featuring the fables of anthropomorphic animals protecting their valley using martial arts...

. Skunk Fu was nominated for a BAFTA Children's Award in October 2008. The company has also developed the animated film The Secret of Kells

Brendan and the Secret of Kells

The Secret of Kells is a 2009 Irish-French-Belgian animated feature film by Cartoon Saloon that premiered on February 8, 2009, at the Berlin International Film Festival. It went into wide release in Belgium and France on February 11, and in the Republic of Ireland on March 3...

. The film features the voice of Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor. His best-known films include Braveheart, Gangs of New York, In Bruges, 28 Days Later, the Harry Potter films, The Guard and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty...

 and is set in the 9th century AD when the Book of Kells

Book of Kells

The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created by Celtic monks ca. 800 or slightly earlier...

 was written. The film premiered on February 22, 2009 at the closing Gala of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

On February 2, 2010 The Secret of Kells was nominated in the category of best animated film at the 82nd Academy Awards

82nd Academy Awards

The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. The ceremony was scheduled well after...

History

Cartoon Saloon began as an informal partnership between a group of animators brought together by Paul Young and Tomm Moore

Tomm Moore

Tomm Moore is an Irish illustrator, comics artist and filmmaker. He is co-founder of Cartoon Saloon, an animation studio and production company, based in Kilkenny, Ireland...

 in 1999. Cartoon Saloon has since grown into a multi-award winning animation and illustration design studio.

Services

Cartoon Saloon provides animation, illustration and design services for clients ranging from the BBC to Walker books and advertising agencies.

Clients

A list of clients and partners:

• CBBC
  CBBC
  CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
  
  
• Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
  
  
• Super RTL
• TG4
• RTÉ
• Disney
• Cadburys
• Walker Books
• O’Brien Press
• I.I.B.B.D.O
• Foras na Gaelge
• Leo Burnett
• McConnells
• Leo Burnett & Assoc
• DDFH&B
• Owens DDB
• Chemistry
• Genesis
• Bloom
• FCB Chicago
• DDB Chicago

Productions

• Song Of The Sea (2013)
• Old Fangs (2010)
• The Secret of Kells (2009)
• Skunk Fu!
  Skunk Fu!
  Skunk Fu! is an Irish animated television series and IFTA award winning children's television series featuring the fables of anthropomorphic animals protecting their valley using martial arts...
  
  (2007)
• Cúilín Dualach (2004)
• From Darkness (2002)

External links

• The Cartoon Saloon website