L’Idem International Animation Summit 2022 ended last Friday 25 March with good participation figures. In its first online edition, the event brought together 50 international studios and 70 students from our school with the aim of promoting the creative talent that has emerged from the classroom and connecting it with the job market. From 14 to 25 March, 400 job datings took place in which students and professionals held quick interviews, lasting an average of 20 minutes. In these interviews, the former presented their portfolios and the latter presented the professional opportunities that currently exist in their teams.
The high participation of studios at the event reaffirms its role as a platform for connecting professionals and new animation talent.
Cartoon Saloon, Illumination MacGuff and The SPA Studios, again at the Summit
The event was once again attended by leading international studios that have once again placed their trust in L’Idem when looking for new talent for their teams.
Based in Kilkenny (Ireland), Cartoon Saloon is a five-time Academy Award®, Golden Globe®, BAFTA and Emmy nominated animation studio. My Father’s Dragon’, ‘WolfWalkers’, ‘Song of the Sea’ and ‘The Breadwinner’ are some of its best known productions.
Headquartered in Paris, Illumination MacGuff boasts such blockbusters as ‘Minions’, ‘Despicable Me’ 1, 2 and 3, ‘The Lorax’, ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ 1 and 2, ‘The Grinch’ and ‘Sing’. Founded in 2011, the studio is today an industry leader in high-end animation production.
Ghost VFX is one of the world’s leading visual effects studios. For more than two decades, it has created the best visual effects, animations and motion graphics for more than 100 productions. These include the feature films ‘The book of Bobba Fet’, ‘The Mandalorian’ or ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’; and TV series such as ‘Narcos’ or ‘The Walking Dead’.
The SPA Studios is a Madrid-based animation studio nominated for a 2020 Academy Award® for ‘Klaus’, the first Netflix original feature film. The ‘Gru, My Favourite Villain’ franchise and the concept on which Warner-produced ‘Smallfoot’ is based are also SPA original ideas.
Specializing in traditional 2D and stop motion animation, Folimage received the European Animation Producer of the Year Award in 2018 (Cartoon Tribute), and the Export Award (Unifrance / AFCA) in 2020, a distinction that recognizes the “international distribution work” of its short films.
Since its creation in 1999, 2D3D Animations has been offering 2D and 3D animation services for film and television. Its projects convey universal values such as environmental protection or the defence of children’s rights, among others.
ON Animation, Framestore and Amopix make their debut at the Summit
The Summit 2022 also marked L’Idem Creative Arts School’s first collaboration with renowned companies in the animation sector.
Pipeline Studios is a creative-driven studio focused on the development, production and distribution of award-winning children’s and family content for a global audience. Sunny day’, ‘Nina’s world’, ‘Paper port’, ‘Babar’ and ‘Chuck & Friends’ are some of its best known productions.
The independent animation studio ON Animation produces TV series and feature films of international scope, such as ‘Gardien de la lune’ and ‘Le Petit Prince’. The latter is, to date, the biggest worldwide success of a French animated film. The studio is currently working on ‘Playmobil the Movie’ and the animated blockbusters ‘Badalisc’ and ‘Slumberland’.
Framestore is a Bafta and Oscar-winning creative studio offering a range of visual effects, production, directing and post-production services. Highlights include ‘Moon Knight’, ‘Fantastic Beasts: the Secrets of Dumbledore’, ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse’ and ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’.
Amopix is an audiovisual creation studio that co-produces documentaries, series, short and feature-length animated films for television, web and cinema. The film ‘Mesdemoiselles Les Palourdes’, the documentary ‘Mange-moi’ and the short film ‘Gauxuma’ are some of its most outstanding projects.
These companies are currently in the process of expanding their staff for the productions they will start working on in the second half of the year. For them, the Summit is the ideal platform to recruit young people ready to join their creative teams immediately.