Irish Animation Awards

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Irish Animation Awards,
CountryIreland
Websitewww.irishanimationawards.ie

The Irish Animation Awards, for which the winners receive a statuette in the shape of a phenakistoscope, an early animation device, were first held on 13 March 2015 in Dingle, Co. Kerry. The statuette was designed by animator, film maker and teacher Eimhin McNamara.[1] The judges included CBBC, Nickelodeon and CBeebies[2] The second award ceremony took place on 25 March 2017. Winners included Song of the Sea as best Irish feature film and , whose Roy, won the Kids’ Choice Award for best animated series. The best music/sound design award was given to Danger Mouse. In 2017, Paul Young, then industry chair of Animation Ireland and co-founder of Cartoon Saloon said: “We Irish have a passion for storytelling and the arts – a culture which is ideally suited for the creativity of world-class animation studios and the quality of the award nominees shows this.”[3]

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  1. ^ "Paper Panther Productions Wins at Irish Animation Awards". 25 March 2019.
  2. ^ Slattery, Laura (12 March 2015). "Dingle Gets Animated". The Irish Times. ProQuest 1662318339.
  3. ^ "Inside Track". The Sunday Business Post. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.

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