The Newest Salooner
Nora and baby Patrick
Congratulations to Nora and Michael on the birth of their new baby Patrick!
IFTAS win for Kells!
We were delighted to accept the Best Animation IFTA on Saturday night on behalf of all the talented and dedicated artists, animators, cast and crew that worked on our first feature film. It was an extra honour for Tomm Moore (thats me:) to win the Rising Star award too, we met some lovely people and it was a grand night out. Hooray.
Snaps from Oscar Luncheon
Check out Paulies snaps from the Oscar Luncheon this week on our photos page.
See if you can spot the famous folks.
Oscar Nomination for The Secret of Kells!
THE SECRET OF KELLS
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
OSCAR NOMINATION!!
Tomm Moore and the rest of the team at Cartoon Saloon are ecstatic to receive an Academy Award ® nomination for Best Animated Feature for their debut feature film THE SECRET OF KELLS.
Best Animated Feature is a huge category to be in, with Cartoon Saloon sharing the nominations with major studios Pixar, Fox, Focus and Disney, and beating other major studios to the short list.
Director Tomm Moore said “The nomination for The Secret of Kells in the animated feature category of the Academy Awards ® is a huge surprise and honour. It’s a tribute to the hard work and dedication of the entire crew and all our partners in the production”.
The Secret of Kells (now on DVD across Ireland) was also recently nominated in the BEST ANIMATED FEATURE category in THE ANNIE AWARDS, (Animation’s Highest Honour), along with 3 IFTA nominations.
Cartoon Saloon began as an informal partnership between a group of animators brought together by Paul Young and Tomm Moore in 1999. The company has since grown into a multi-award winning animation and illustration design studio and develops and produces feature film and TV series projects while producing award winning short films, television commercials, graphic novels and children’s books.
In addition to developing and producing Tomm Moore’s THE SECRET OF KELLS, The Saloon also successful developed and produced its first TV Series, The IFTA award winning SKUNK FU! (which was also nominated for a BAFTA) which has been sold to broadcasters in over 120 countries worldwide, including the BBC, Cartoon Network, Canal J. France 5 Super RTL Disney and ABC Australia.
Cartoon Saloon is currently in development of a number of new projects, Three new feature film projects, Song of the Sea, Skunk FU! The Movie and Bluebeard. Children’s animated TV series Galaxy Boyz, Pirate Zoe and Puffins Rock are currently in development for the international market.
If you want to see the movie – why not buy a signed DVD from our online store?
Sundance puts Old Fangs online….
The latest Short film from Cartoon Saloon , Adrien Merigeaus’ “Old Fangs “is online
and currently screening in Sundance. VIEW FILM
The Secret of Kells US Premiere
New York Childrens Film Festival to screen The Secret of Kells in July!
New Yorkers will see it first! Let us know what you think!
Kecskemet Animated Film Festival
The Secret of Kells takes home the beautiful clockwork award for the Jury prize and also a gorgeous ceramic cat for the audience award!!!!!!
Hooray and congrats to all the crew!
Fabian Erlinghauser, who animated and supervised animation for Cartoon Saloon picked up the award. The most handsome man in animation! Check him out!
