News from 2014
CelAction open over holidays
Even though you'd think we'd be taking some time off after such a spectacularly busy year, CelAction will be open as usual between Christmas and New Year. We've got even more exciting things planned for 2015!
BBC shows On Angel Wings
On Angel Wings from Illuminated Films will be shown on BBC1 at 4.15pm Christmas Eve and 9.30am Christmas Day. From the book by Michael Morpurgo, this half-hour film features the voices of Sir Michael Gambon, Dominic Cooper and Juliet Stevenson.
Sarah & Duck wins BAFTA!
Sarah & Duck from Karrot Entertainment has won the Best Pre-School Animation award at the Children's BAFTAs held on the 23rd November 2014.
CelAction at Asian Animation Summit
A representative from CelAction will be attending the Asian Animation Summit on 3rd-5th December 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Contact us to set up a meeting.
CelAction at SIGGRAPH Asia
A representative from CelAction will be attending SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 on 4th-6th December in Shenzhen, China. Contact us to set up a meeting.
CelAction sponsors Cartoon Business
CelAction is sponsoring Cartoon Business, being held in Bordeaux, France on 2nd-4th December 2014. Contact us to set up a meeting.
Sarah & Duck nominated for BAFTA
Sarah & Duck from Karrot Entertainment gets a nomination for the second year running in the Best Pre-School Animation category at the Children's BAFTAs to be held on the 23rd November 2014.
CelAction sponsors CTN Expo
CelAction is proud to again be a sponsor of CTN Expo. CelAction will be on Booth B37 at the event in Burbank, California, on the 21st-23rd November 2014. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
CelAction in South Korea
A representative from CelAction will be attending Cartoon Connection in Jeju Island, South Korea, on the 11th-13th November 2014. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
CelAction sponsors World Animation Summit
CelAction is proud to be the only 2D animation software company supporting and sponsoring the World Animation & VFX Summit held on 2nd-5th November in Los Angeles.
CelAction partners with Digital Video
Digital Video and CelAction, two of the leading European animation software developers, announced today a strategic partnership which sees CelAction reselling and marketing Digital Video’s well-respected Toonz product range to complement their portfolio.
Toonz Harlequin is full-featured software for traditional animation used by some of the most prestigious animation studios in the world, allowing both scanned drawings and paperless digital drawings to be coloured, manipulated and animated with a full range of compositing effects. Toonz Bravo is a slimmed-down version of Harlequin that focuses on just the paperless aspects of production. Both versions feature the innovative Plastic tool for deforming vector and bitmap images.
"CelAction are a growing company with global ambitions and a lot of experience in the industry on key productions," said Digital Video's Claudio Mattei. "They are the perfect partners for us to confirm Toonz as the number one product for hand-drawn animation."
"We’re extremely proud to be chosen by Digital Video to represent their distinguished and much-loved products," said Andy Blazdell, CEO of CelAction. "Now we can add traditional animation to our range of software solutions, giving us the ability to cater to all companies in the 2D animation market."
CelAction are also very active in the educational field, and believe Toonz Harlequin is the ideal way to preserve hand-drawn animation skills.
“We’ve had a lot of enquiries recently from educators looking for ink-and-paint software that maintains the detail of the original drawing exactly, without losing the charm and artistry,” continued Andy. “Toonz Harlequin is by far the best software for scanning in animation from paper, and will go a long way to stop these skills being lost forever.”
Toonz Harlequin and Toonz Bravo are available for Windows and Mac OSX.
CelAction on panel at WAS
Andy Blazdell, CEO of CelAction, will be speaking on a panel at next week's World Animation Summit in Los Angeles about 21st Century Tools of the Trade, at 2.15pm on Tuesday November 4th.
Tea With The Dead wins at RIIFF
Tea With The Dead by Wiggleywoo has won the First Prize for Best Animation award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, held in Rhode Island in August 2014.
CelAction in Quebec
A representative from CelAction will be attending Cartoon Connection Canada in Quebec City, Canada, on the 27th-30th October 2014. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
Toot airs on Channel 5
Toot The Tiny Tugboat by Lupus Films begins airing on Channel 5 on Monday 20th October at 6.30am. If you're not awake that early, you can see a teaser here.
On Angel Wings premieres at LFF
On Angel Wings by Illuminated Films has been selected to premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday 19th October.
Tea With The Dead wins at Raindance
Tea With The Dead by Wiggleywoo has won the Best Animated Short award at the 22nd Raindance Film Festival, held in London on the 24th September to the 5th October.
CelAction at MIPCOM
A representative from CelAction will be attending MIPCOM in Cannes, France, on the 13th-16th October 2014. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
CelAction at Cartoon Forum
A CelAction representative will be at Cartoon Forum in Toulouse, France, on 23rd-26th September. Contact us to set up a meeting.
CelAction sponsors OIAF
CelAction is a Showcase Sponsor of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, being held in Canada on the 17th-21st September.
CelAction at TAC
A representative from CelAction will be attending TAC in Ottawa on 17th-19th September. Contact us to set up a meeting.
CelAction at IBC
A representative from CelAction will be attending IBC in Amsterdam on 11th-16th September. Contact us to set up a meeting. In addition, Karrot Animation's Jamie Badminton will be doing a talk about the series Sarah & Duck on the Adobe stand on Friday, Sept. 12th at 1:00pm and Saturday, Sept. 13th at 12:30 and 2:00pm.
Adobe interviews Karrot Animation
Karrot Animation's Jamie Badminton is interviewed about the series Sarah & Duck, and how Adobe tools integrated with CelAction2D. You can read the full interview here.
CelAction2D training course in Ireland
Animation Skillnet is running an introductory CelAction2D course in Dublin, Ireland, starting 22nd September 2014. Please see here for more details.
Wanda & the Alien premieres
Wanda & the Alien, by Mackinnon and Saunders, starts showing on Channel 5 at 8.25am on Saturday 30th August. Check out clips from the show here.
CelAction2D training course
Cutlass Productions are running another of their hugely successful CelAction2D training courses in Brighton, UK on 6th-24th October 2014. Please see this PDF for more details.
CelAction at SIGGRAPH
A representative from CelAction will be attending SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver, Canada, on 12-14th August. Contact us to set up a meeting.
CelAction at CAKE
Andy Blazdell from CelAction will be giving a talk about modern animation processes at C.A.K.E. on 16th July, being held at Edge Hill University.
CelAction at CMC
CelAction will be at the Children's Media Conference being held in Sheffield, UK on 2nd-4th July. Contact us to set up a meeting. We're also taking part in the International Exchange, giving even more opportunities to meet us.
CelAction at MIFA
CelAction will be on Stand 2.013 at the MIFA being held in Annecy, France on 11th-13th June. We will be showing examples of the new Vectrinsic toolset, so make sure you drop by and see what all the excitement is about! Visit www.annecy.org for more details.
It's official - Horrible Histories is Best Children's Non-Fiction Show Ever
Horrible Histories has won the Best Children's Non-Fiction Show In The Last 50 Years category at the Prix Jeunesse 2014. We don't know what children's non-fiction shows were broadcast more than 50 years ago. But they probably weren't as good as Horrible Histories.
Horrible Histories wins Bulldog award
Horrible Histories has won the Children's category at the Bulldog awards. Sarah & Duck by Karrot Entertainment came in third.
Sarah & Duck nominated for Prix Jeunesse
Sarah & Duck by Karrot Entertainment has been nominated in the Up To 6 Children's Fiction category of the Prix Jeunesse 2014.
Boj premieres on CBeebies
Boj by Pesky premieres on CBeebies at 3.50pm 19th May 2014. You can find out more about the show here.
The Kiosk wins at Monstra
The Kiosk by Anete Melece won the Audience Prize at Monstra 2014 in Lisbon.
CelAction2D and Windows XP
As of 8th April 2014, Microsoft has discontinued support for Windows XP, meaning that there will be no new security patches. Therefore, running Windows XP will become more and more risky over time. CelAction2D still runs on Windows XP, but if you insist on continuing to use Windows XP, we recommend that you do not allow your machine to connect to the internet. Future versions of CelAction2D may not work on Windows XP, so you should think about upgrading to Windows 7 or 8 as soon as possible.
CelAction at NAB
A representative from CelAction will be attending NAB in Las Vegas on the 7th-10th April 2014. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
CelAction at MIPTV
A representative from CelAction will be attending MIPTV in Cannes, France, on the 7th-10th April 2014. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
CelAction2D training course
Cutlass Productions are running a CelAction2D training course in Brighton, UK on 6th-27th May 2014. Please see this PDF for more details.
Peppa wins British Animation Award!
Peppa Pig by Astley Baker Davies has won Best Pre-School Series at the British Animation Awards 2014, held on Friday 7th March in London.
Variety mentions CelAction
Variety talks about CelAction in a recent article about animation in London, even going so far as to use it as the term for 2D animation - it's nice to know we are being considered the standard for 2D animation now!
"There is a broad range of animation talent in London, ready to take on all demands, from CGI to CelAction, stop frame to puppetry, pre-school to art house."
CelAction shows nominated for BAAs
Peppa Pig by Astley Baker Davies and Sarah & Duck by Karrot Entertainment have been nominated for Best Pre-School Series at the British Animation Awards 2014 to be held on Friday 7th March.
CelAction sponsors BAAs
CelAction is proud to be a sponsor for the British Animation Awards 2014.
CelAction at Cartoon Movie
A representative from CelAction will be attending Cartoon Movie in Lyon, France on the 5th-7th March 2014. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
Sarah & Duck wins Kidscreen Award
Sarah & Duck by Karrot Entertainment has won Best Pre-School Animated Series at the Kidscreen Awards held in New York on the 11th February.
Ben & Holly wins International Emmy
Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom by Astley Baker Davies has won the award in the Kids: Pre-School category of the International Emmy Awards, held in New York on 10th February.
Ben & Holly nominated for International Emmy
Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom by Astley Baker Davies has been nominated in the Kids: Pre-School category of the International Emmy Awards, being held in New York tonight.
Sarah & Duck nominated for KidScreen Award
Sarah & Duck by Karrot Entertainment has been nominated for Best Pre-School Animated Series at the Kidscreen Awards held in New York on the 11th February. Horrible Histories has also been nominated for best Mixed Series.
CelAction at KidScreen Summit
A CelAction representative will be at the Kidscreen Summit held in New York on the 9th-12th February. Contact us to set up a meeting.
Two top brands of 2013 helped by CelAction2D!
Two of the top three most influential brands of 2013 used CelAction2D in their major productions, according to the Power List launched by Licensing.biz. In the Characters & Entertainment category, Peppa Pig took the number one slot and Moshi Monsters came in at number three.
Happy New Year!
Following an incredible year in 2013 that surpassed all our expectations, CelAction2D continues to be the fastest growing 2D animation software on the market. After helping create the Moshi Monsters movie in record time and being identified as the must-have skill for animators by the UK's Creative Skillset, we have also been putting the finishing touches to the latest version of CelAction2D.
In addition, we have developed a new vector technology for the upcoming new series of Mr. Bean. Initially this was to be a separate product, but we took the decision last summer to include it in CelAction2D Version 4 as part of the core code. This delayed the launch of Version 4, but will put much greater power into the hands of CelAction2D customers at no extra cost. This new technology is called Vectrinsic, so watch out for more announcements soon.
So with the new wave of training happening in several countries, and our push into new territories worldwide, 2014 will be a great year to be a CelAction2D user.
We look forward to welcoming you aboard.
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