On behalf of the McKinnon & Saunders Studio, stop-motion producer Ian Mackinnon will obtain the Studio of the Yr Award 2023 on the upcoming Cartoons on the Bay – Worldwide Competition of Animation, Transmedia and Meta-Arts 2023. Mackinnon can even serve on the Competition’s Worldwide Jury. The pageant takes place in Pescara, Italy, from Could 31-June 4, 2023.
Mackinnon is without doubt one of the inventive administrators and co-founders of Mackinnon & Saunders, a studio specializing in character improvement for animation and producers of stop-motion and 2D digital animation. Over its 30+ years of operation, the studio has delivered to life a number of the best-known characters on this planet of films, TV collection, commercials, and brief movies. Work consists of the puppets for the 2023 Oscar and Golden Globe-winning animated movie Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix) and the puppets for Wes Anderson’s Implausible Mr. Fox, Tim Burton’s Mars Assaults! and Frankenweenie, and Mike Johnson’s and Burton’s Corpse Bride.
The Mackinnon & Saunders studio is actively concerned in animation for the UK market with the BBC on exhibits like Postman Pat; Wanda and the Alien; Twirlywoos; Moon & Me; and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion. Extra lately, the studio labored on Netflix’s 90-minute stop-motion anthology The Home and the collection The Sound Collector, produced by EagleVsBat.
Cartoons on the Bay can even host the British movie director and producer Peter Lord and the Israeli movie director and producer Ari Folman, who will each obtain the Pulcinella Profession Award.
Supply: Cartoons on the Bay
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
