As usual, CelAction will be open between Christmas and New Year, supporting our customers whose deadlines don't match with big companies' ideas of when holidays should be. Stand by for an amazing year in 2016, we have some very cool things lined up for you!
Sarah & Duck by Karrot Entertainment fought against stiff competition to win the Radio Times Children's TV Show Champion 2015 award. In fact, 3 out of the 4 finalists were made using CelAction2D, Charlie & Lola and Mr Bean - The Animated Series were also runners-up.
A representative from CelAction will be attending the Asian Animation Summit on 7th-9th December 2015 in Jeju, South Korea. Contact us to set up a meeting.
Airmail (Messages Dans L'Air) by Isabelle Favez is in the International Competition at the London International Animation Festival being held on 4th-13th December in London.
CelAction is proud to again be a sponsor of CTN Expo. CelAction will be on Booth B62 in Pavilion Hall B at the event in Burbank, California, on the 20th-22nd November 2015. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
The Big Knights by Astley Baker Davies will be shown at selected cinemas on 14th-15th November 2015. See here for more details.
We've had one of our best years ever for Children's BAFTA nominations! In the Children's Animation category we have Mr. Bean The Animated Series from Tiger Aspect, in the Pre-School Animation category we have Lily's Driftwood Bay by Sixteen South and Peppa Pig by Astley Baker Davies, and finally in the Writing category we have Peppa Pig and Horrible Histories. The award ceremony will be held on 22nd November 2015.
A representative from CelAction will be attending the World Animation & VFX Summit held on 2nd-4th November in Los Angeles. Contact us to set up a meeting.
CelAction is proud to again be the only 2D animation software company supporting and sponsoring the World Animation & VFX Summit held on 2nd-4th November in Los Angeles.
A representative from CelAction will be attending Cartoon Connection Canada in Quebec City, Canada, on the 26th-29th October 2015. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
A representative from CelAction will be attending MIPCOM in Cannes, France, on the 5th-8th October 2015. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
King Rollo Films is running more CelAction2D courses in October and November. Click here to find out more.
CelAction is proud to be a Showcase Sponsor for the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2015!
CelAction is proud to sponsor Cartoon Forum 2015!
A representative from CelAction will be attending TAC in Ottawa on 16th-20th September. Contact us to set up a meeting.
A CelAction representative will be at Cartoon Forum in Toulouse, France, on 15th-18th September. Contact us to set up a meeting.
A representative from CelAction will be attending IBC in Amsterdam, on 10-15th September. Contact us to set up a meeting.
A representative from CelAction will be attending SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles, on 11-13th August. Contact us to set up a meeting.
Three films made in CelAction2D are in competition at Anima Mundi this year, held in Brazil on 10th-22nd July. The Meek by Joe Brumm and Tea With The Dead by Gary Gill are in the Short Films category, and Messages Dans L'Air by Isabelle Favez is in the Short Films For Children category.
A representative from CelAction will be attending the Children's Media Conference in Sheffield, on the 1st-3rd July 2015. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
Rita & Crocodile by Ladybird Films won the Jury Award for a TV Series at the prestigious Annecy festival held on 15th-20th June 2015.
The Meek by Studio Joho will be playing in the Australian Showcase at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, being held in Melbourne on 21st-28th June 2015.
Come to our stand in MIFA and give us your business card, and you will be entered in a prize draw to win a licence of CelAction Animatic! We will be on MIFA Stand 2.006 at the Annecy 2015 festival, held on 17th-19th June 2015.
CelAction will be on Stand 2.006 at MIFA at the Annecy 2015 festival, held on 17th-19th June 2015. Contact us to set up a meeting, or just drop by and say hello!
Messages Dans L'Air by Isabelle Favez is in the Panorama at the Annecy 2015 festival, held on 15th-20th June 2015.
Rita & Crocodile by Ladybird Films and Nelly & Nora by Geronimo Productions are in the TV Competition at the Annecy 2015 festival, held on 15th-20th June 2015.
On Angel Wings by Illuminated Films won the Best Children's Short at the UK Christian Film Festival 2015, held in London on May 21st 2015.
Footy Pups by Dot to Dot Productions will start showing on CBeebies at 4.30pm on 25th May 2015.
The Meek by Studio Joho will be playing in the Australian Showcase at the Australian International Animation Festival, being held in Wagga Wagga on May 15th-17th 2015.
Check out this case study on how CelAction2D is used with ftrack to manage Cloth Cat's pipeline.
CelAction will be presenting a workshop at FMX 2015, at 11am Wednesday 6th May in Raum Mannheim. CEO Andy Blazdell will be talking about how the new series of Mr. Bean was made, and revealing some of the secrets of our new Vectrinsic technology.
A representative from CelAction will be attending Cartoon Connection in Jeju Island, South Korea, on the 27th-30th April 2015. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
The Day Henry Met... by Wiggleywoo Productions has won the Pulcinella award for Best European Work at Cartoons On The Bay, held in Venice on the 16th-18th April.
The BBC's flagship news satire show Have I Got News For You has always had traditionally animated titles. For the new series, and for the very first time, this iconic title sequence features animation done using CelAction2D. You can't tell where the traditional animation ends and the CelAction2D animation begins. We're changing the way people think about drawn animation. Watch out for more examples of our new technology later this year.
The Day Henry Met... by Wiggleywoo Productions has been nominated for a Pulcinella award for Best Pre-School TV Series at Cartoons On The Bay, to be held in Venice on the 16th-18th April.
A representative from CelAction will be attending NAB in Las Vegas on the 13th-16th April 2015. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
A representative from CelAction will be attending MIPTV in Cannes, France, on the 13th-16th April 2015. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
A representative from CelAction will be at Cartoon Business in Munich from 24th-26th March 2015. Contact us to set up a meeting.
Horrible Histories has won Best One-Off, Special Or TV Movie award in the Tweens/Teens category at the Kidscreen Awards held in New York in February. It also won the Best Acting, Best Writing and Best Directing awards.
A representative from CelAction will be attending Cartoon Movie in Lyon, France on the 4th-6th March 2015. Contact us if you want to set up a meeting.
A CelAction representative will be at the Rio Content Market held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the 25th-27th February. Contact us to set up a meeting.
A CelAction representative will be at the Kidscreen Summit held in Miami on the 23rd-26th February. Contact us to set up a meeting.
Lily's Driftwood Bay by Sixteen South won the Best Pre-School Programme Award at the Broadcast Awards 2015, held in London on February 4th 2015.
On Angel Wings by Illuminated Films won the Critics' Award at the Blue Sky Animation Festival 2015, held in Ohio on February 2nd-4th 2015.
Mr. Bean - The Animated Series by Tiger Aspect Productions starts broadcasting a new series on CITV on 16th February 2015 at .9.25am. This second series was animated using CelAction2D software.
Peppa Pig - The Golden Boots by Astley Baker Davies will be shown in UK cinemas during half-term, starting Febraury 14th. It is a special 15-minute episode, and will be shown alongside some regular episodes.
Messages Dans L'Air by Isabelle Favez is playing at the Berlinale from the 10th-15th February.
Messages Dans L'Air by Isabelle Favez has won the 2nd Prize of the Lauréats Concours for best animated film at the Solothurn Film Festival held on 22nd-29th January 2015.
Nelly & Nora by Geronimo Productions premieres on RTÉjr on Monday February 2nd at 2.55pm.
Well, 2014 was a game-changer for the entire animation industry, and CelAction was right at the centre of it!
We released an affordable tool for professional storyboarding, CelAction Animatic, based on what working storyboarders really need in their software. We joined forces with Digital Video to resell and market the amazing Toonz Harlequin and Toonz Bravo packages. So now animators have a real choice for all aspects of 2D animation production.
In 2015, the world will see the results of our Vectrinsic technology when the new series of Mr. Bean - The Animated Adventures hits TV screens everywhere. We've been lucky enough to see a sneak peak of some episodes, and we can confirm that this series will be amazing.
Version 4 of CelAction2D just gets better and better - one of the advantages of being a truly independent company is that we are free to release a new version when we want to, when we think it's ready, not by the end of a financial year or before an earnings report to make share prices rise. Version 4 is going to be special, very special, so watch this space!
Happy New Year, everyone!