A team of animation graduates are on their way to launching Australia.s first animated adult TV series.
Smalltown Animation has just raised $6,000 through Kickstarter to put the finishing touches to a pilot program that will be pitched to Australian networks, platforms and providers.
The Sae Creative Media Institute graduates' series, Tough Love, is the creation of Brad Duence who teamed up with fellow students in 2012 to make a comedy series about three 20-somethings struggling to construct adult lives in Sydney.
Two years later, Duence and his colleagues, Sapphire Sheedy, Brett Irwin and Kylie Moreyra, have now secured funding to buy animation and editing software licenses, pay voice actors and acquire music licenses.
Duence said the team started working on Tough Love as a major project at Sae.
"It.s been a labour of love since then, with all of us spending at least two days a week to on...
Smalltown Animation has just raised $6,000 through Kickstarter to put the finishing touches to a pilot program that will be pitched to Australian networks, platforms and providers.
The Sae Creative Media Institute graduates' series, Tough Love, is the creation of Brad Duence who teamed up with fellow students in 2012 to make a comedy series about three 20-somethings struggling to construct adult lives in Sydney.
Two years later, Duence and his colleagues, Sapphire Sheedy, Brett Irwin and Kylie Moreyra, have now secured funding to buy animation and editing software licenses, pay voice actors and acquire music licenses.
Duence said the team started working on Tough Love as a major project at Sae.
"It.s been a labour of love since then, with all of us spending at least two days a week to on...
- 11/3/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
When Martin Sharpe.s animated short Still Life was a finalist at Tropfest last year, it.s doubtful he realised his little project could be expanded into a 3D series for Australian and international audiences.
Hamish Lewis, a co-founder of international distribution and TV and film financing start-up Escapade Media, spotted Still Life and immediately begun discussing projects with Sharpe. Sharpe created the concept for Artie! - a 26 x 11 minutes, 3D animated TV series targeted primarily at 8-10 year-olds with a slight male skew and Hamish saw the market potential right away. Artie tells the story of the title character Artie, an adventurous spirit who discovers he has the ability to enter other worlds.
Managing director Natalie Lawley plans to pitch the project at Mipcom Junior in October. She is talking to three animation production companies, two Australian-based, the other in Singapore, and hopes to have decided on the production entity before the market.
Hamish Lewis, a co-founder of international distribution and TV and film financing start-up Escapade Media, spotted Still Life and immediately begun discussing projects with Sharpe. Sharpe created the concept for Artie! - a 26 x 11 minutes, 3D animated TV series targeted primarily at 8-10 year-olds with a slight male skew and Hamish saw the market potential right away. Artie tells the story of the title character Artie, an adventurous spirit who discovers he has the ability to enter other worlds.
Managing director Natalie Lawley plans to pitch the project at Mipcom Junior in October. She is talking to three animation production companies, two Australian-based, the other in Singapore, and hopes to have decided on the production entity before the market.
- 8/6/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
International distribution and TV and film financing start-up Escapade Media has hooked up with OmniLab Media.s production arm Ambience Entertainment.
OmniLab has taken an equity stake in Escapade, which also gets international sales rights to a number of Ambience's children.s TV series.
Escapade is negotiating with Australian producers to help finance and sell internationally a range of adult TV dramas, children.s, lifestyle and factual programs.
The founders of Escapade are Natalie Lawley as managing director, Anthony Mrsnik as director and Hamish Lewis as sales and development executive.
Until last year all three worked at the ABC, where Lawley was manager of content sales at ABC Commercial, Mrsnik was its manager of international acquisitions and business development and Lewis worked in ABC sales and acquisitions.
.We decided to get together because we all have a passion for the business and we enjoy working together,. said Mrsnik, who had...
OmniLab has taken an equity stake in Escapade, which also gets international sales rights to a number of Ambience's children.s TV series.
Escapade is negotiating with Australian producers to help finance and sell internationally a range of adult TV dramas, children.s, lifestyle and factual programs.
The founders of Escapade are Natalie Lawley as managing director, Anthony Mrsnik as director and Hamish Lewis as sales and development executive.
Until last year all three worked at the ABC, where Lawley was manager of content sales at ABC Commercial, Mrsnik was its manager of international acquisitions and business development and Lewis worked in ABC sales and acquisitions.
.We decided to get together because we all have a passion for the business and we enjoy working together,. said Mrsnik, who had...
- 5/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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