Cartoon Saloon

Cartoon Saloon is an Irish animation studio and YouTube Channel known for producing the films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers. Most of their films revolve around Irish mythology and culture.
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In 1999, three alumni of the Ballyfermot College of Further Education’s animation degree course, Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey and Paul Young founded the company, and in the same year began producing the trailer for their first project The Secret of Kells. It wasn't until 2005 until they could fully produce it, due to lack of funding, due to the company's main source of income being making animations for adverts. Meanwhile the studio of 12 animators relied on commercial and corporate work including web-site design and CD ROM production with Paul Young focusing on illustration whilst Tomm Moore undertook the animation. The Secret of Kell's success caused Cartoon Saloon to become multi-award-winning animation and illustration design studio, with their works receiving five Academy Award nominations, their first four feature length works all receiving nominations for Best Animated Feature and one for Best Animated Short Film (Late Afternoon).
The YouTube channel of the company was made in 2009, with its main purpise being for uploading trailershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh6wTBtwLLg ofhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WpOvvAPgQ theirhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kh5qltVwI0 upcominghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2_HZTuQBE projectshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUKh_alsZbk and animations.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ42zo_VrqI However a few of their next uploads were clips from their first movie and other animations. They also advertised extra content and merchandise, such as the art bookhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwKXvy-vHCw and show reels.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdORZh2-OuI
In 2017 they released a conceptual trailer for their film Wolfwalkershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL_RH3P6Cz0, a movie that would garner them fame after receiving positive reviews from reviewers like Saberspark, Schaffrillas Productions and YourMovieSucksDOTorg. It was their biggest project yet, involving musicians such as Kila and AURORA.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NKESF5Ykk
==Trivia==
*They have provided animation for the shows Vikingskool, Puffin Rock, Dorg van Dango and Ellie the Ace
*They provided the graphics for the successful Emperor of the Irish exhibition at Trinity College Dublin, in 2014
*For St. Patrick's Day, they released a bonus short of Wolfwalkers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkq5Ne6sbgU
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Category:Art YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Irish YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2009