Galway City Council and Galway Cartoon Festival are inviting entries from children for a virtual St Patrick’s Day Parade to take place online in March. Entrants should draw their imaginative participants for the virtual parade, and entries will be animated and marching across screens on 17th March 2021! DRAW ST. PATRICK’S DAY/TARRAING LÁ ‘LE PÁDRAIG … Read more
Great new out of Kilkenny today: Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board welcomes the news that award-winning Irish animation company, Cartoon Saloon and Canadian firm Mercury Filmworks will launch Lighthouse Studios—a new venture, focused on 2-D animation, that will create 140 jobs in Kilkenny over the next three years. Supported by the IDA and … Read more
This is a guest post by DT Finn, who’s doing some brilliant stopmotion satire on his YouTube channel. I asked him to explain a little about the process of making the clips. I started Cutbacks almost two years ago, furious at what was happening with Lisbon and with Mister Cowen’s government. The stopmotion characters are … Read more
