The 2023 Irish Animation Awards came about over the weekend in Galway, the primary time that the ceremony has been held in individual since 2019.
Cartoon Saloon’s My Father’s Dragon was the massive winner at this 12 months’s awards, taking 5 prizes together with finest Irish characteristic.
Directed by Nora Twomey, the Netflix authentic movie relies on Ruth Stiles Gannett’s Newbery Medal-winning children’ e-book of the identical title. The script was written by Inside Out screenwriter Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) who tailored the display screen story with John Morgan.
From the television classes, Igloo Animation’s children’ sequence Tales from Dún Draíochta and Sixteen South’s Odo each picked up two prizes, with the previous successful finest animated children sequence.
Talking in regards to the Irish animation business’s spectacular progress in recent times, Animation Eire’s chief govt Ronan McCabe mentioned in a launch: “It has been one more very good and record-breaking 12 months for Irish animation with 53 productions nominated. The sector is constant to energy forward each when it comes to the standard of the work being produced, which you’ll be able to definitely see from the awards ceremony and the variety of productions being delivered.”
2023 Irish Animation Awards
Greatest Animated Preschool Sequence
- Circle Sq., Kavaleer Productions, Wyndley Animation
Greatest Animated Youngsters Sequence 6+
- Tales from Dún Draíochta, Igloo Animations, Trevor Courtney
Youngsters Selection Preschool
- Fia’s Fairies, Little Moon Animation, Vanessa Robinson, Eoghan Garvey
Youngsters Selection 6+
- The Cuphead Present!, Lighthouse Studios, Ruchi Shah – Paul Madden – Cormac Slevin
Greatest Animated Quick Movie
Greatest Worldwide Quick Movie
- The Stranger, Jihye Jung, Jusuk Lee, Hyunju Kim
Greatest Author for Preschool Animation
- Odo – “Doodle Music,” Ishai Ravid
Greatest Author for an Animated Sequence
- Tales from Dún Draíochta- Lusmore and the Rapping Fairy, Trevor Courtney
Greatest Animation for Apps, Video games, and Interactive
- Waggle, Katie McNeice, Maeve MacNamara, Jim Pipe
Greatest Artwork Course and Design
- Bardo, Aisling Conroy, Alan Holly, Cora McKenna
Greatest Director of an Animated Sequence
- Karma’s World, Bronagh O’Hanlon, Pete McEvoy, Brian O’Brien
Greatest Animation Sequence
- The Cuphead Present!, Julius Mingi, Dindo Santos, Gian Carla Atienza
Greatest Music
- My Father’s Dragon, Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna
Greatest Sound Design
- Memento Mori, Ed Costello, Ryan Quinn
Greatest Irish Characteristic or Particular
- My Father’s Dragon, Cartoon Saloon
Greatest Innovation in Animation
- Face2Face – “Charles & Camilla,” Retinize & Flickerpix
Greatest Irish IP
- Odo – “Reggie,” Colin Williams
Greatest Scholar Movie
- Small Makings of a Storm, Avery Angle
Greatest Enhancing
- My Father’s Dragon, Richie Cody, Darren Holmes
Greatest Storyboarding
- My Father’s Dragon, Giovanna Ferrari
Greatest VFX
- My Father’s Dragon, Cartoon Saloon
Excellent Contribution to the Business
