IT'S JUST BUSINESS PT.3

SO FOR THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF THE WONDERFUL BUSINESS RESEARCHING, IN MY SIGHTS, 'CARTOON SALOON' 

Cartoon Saloon is an Irish based animation company established in 1999 by an informal group of animation students, Paul Young, Tom Moore and Nora Twomey. Since 1999 their company has created TV Series, both short and feature length animated films, as well as creating their own graphic novels and children’s books.

ABOVE: THE SECRET OF KELLS

BELOW: SONG OF THE SEA

Cartoon Saloon grabbed my interest due to their stylistically colourful and wonderfully animated films. They focus mainly on 2D animation, with bits and pieces of grading and photo manipulation thrown in with it. Examples with the most gravitas definitely have to be their 2009 feature film ‘The Secret of Kells’ and the most recent and shortly to be arriving to cinemas ‘Song of the Sea’. From reading their website and scouring through their pages, it seems to be a really happy and friendly (if not slightly eccentric) place to work and create, this being the reason they have been added into my list of companies that I’m interested in working for.