PUNKY to get SECOND series!!!

It has been confirmed. PUNKY is to get a second series! She will conquer the world yet!

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: The Last CAN event of the year

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: The Last CAN event of the year: Another great night last night - the final gathering of the Creatives in Animation Network (CAN) for 2012. I thought numbers would be tiny -...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: FIFTH 'CREATIVES IN ANIMATION NETWORK' EVENT CONFI...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: FIFTH 'CREATIVES IN ANIMATION NETWORK' EVENT CONFI...: The date: 10th December, 2012 The venue: ROASTED BROWN CAFE SPACE, FIRST FLOOR, FILMBASE, CURVED STREET, DUBLIN 2 Time: 7-9...

WULFIE and friends are GO!

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: WULFIE and friends are GO!: My animation series, WULFIE has been optioned and the Bible is looking fantastic, thanks to everyone at Monster Entertainment. The drawings ...

PUNKY Soaks Up The Sun!

PUNKY is in Cannes, soaking up the atmosphere, the sunshine and, hopefully, international deals! She's at MipCom , with Andrew Fitzpatrick of distributor, Monster Entertainment and showing at Junior... Wish I was there!

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: LET'S GROW THE CREATIVES IN ANIMATION NETWORK

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: LET'S GROW THE CREATIVES IN ANIMATION NETWORK: Let's get this network growing and rustling in the wind: The Creatives in Animation Network is open to writers and animators interested i...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: 4th CAN event is only days away

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: 4th CAN event is only days away: The fourth Creatives in Animation Network (CAN) event takes place on Monday evening in Temple Bar. Can't wait. From the line up of peopl...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: Another Great Evening of Networking!

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: Another Great Evening of Networking!: Many thanks to everyone who braved the horrible deluge to traipse into town last night. It was another really interesting evening and the ne...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: 4th CAN event is only days away

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: 4th CAN event is only days away: The fourth Creatives in Animation Network (CAN) event takes place on Monday evening in Temple Bar. Can't wait. From the line up of peopl...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: CAN Calls Animators and Writers Together Again

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: CAN Calls Animators and Writers Together Again: I’m organising the 4th Creatives in Animation Network (CAN) event on Monday, September 24th . There's a change of venue. This one takes plac...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: What Broadcasters (DON'T) Want... # 3

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: What Broadcasters (DON'T) Want... # 3: Since we all know the joys of getting notes we don't want on scripts that we want to be perfect, here - again from Alix Wiseman, Head of Sal...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: CREATIVES IN ANIMATION NETWORK

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: CREATIVES IN ANIMATION NETWORK: Introducing...the CREATIVES IN ANIMATION NETWORK History: Born December 2011. Became tangible on 31st January 2012 with the first Animat...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: What Broadcasters Want... part 2

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: What Broadcasters Want... part 2: Continuing the series of What Broadcaster's Want... ...based on the presumption that if we know and if that knowledge is filed away like a...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: What are broadcasters looking for?

What are broadcasters looking for?: Attended a fantastic day in The Lighthouse, organised by Media last Monday (30th) called Focus on Animation. Among the many gems - and I'l...

Punky heads to Finland!

Finland, the fifth largest country in Western Europe, has become the latest territory to embrace PUNKY. . "Matkusta hyvin pikkuinen"... which, hopefully, in Finnish means "travel well, little one".

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: ANIMATION NETWORKING EVENT # 3

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: ANIMATION NETWORKING EVENT # 3: Monday next, the 30th of April is the third get together between animation directors, animators and writers. The Screen Directors Guild of...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: Derry here we come

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: Derry here we come: PUNKY is among four nominees in the Celtic Media Festival's Children's TV awards section alongside two from BBC Alba(Scotland) and one from ...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: Second Success for the Animation Networking Group

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: Second Success for the Animation Networking Group: March 12th, an empty room in Temple Bar fills with the hum of conversation and networking at its finest -- good conversation, interesting pe...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: SECOND ANIMATION NETWORKING EVENT IS IMMINENT!

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: SECOND ANIMATION NETWORKING EVENT IS IMMINENT!: We have a fantastic selection of people from the writing and animation worlds lined up to come to the second of this series I somehow starte...

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: New nomination for Punky

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: New nomination for Punky: PUNKY has been shortlisted in the Celtic Media Festival! Even better, CMF is being held in Derry, one of my favourite cities, on 18 - 20 Apr...

The Next Animation Networking Event for writers and animation directors...

Yup, it's a snappy title. I can't help them - they just flood from the keyboard!

Anyway, following on the success and popularity of the first networking event, I'm organising another one to take place on March 12th in Temple Bar. Anyway, following on the success and popularity of the first networking event, I'm organising another one to take place on March 12th in Temple Bar.

The purpose of these events is to bring writers and animation directors together and see if we can't start collaborating with each other on various projects from shorts to features to series to, even, books. Who knows? There was so much creativity in the SDGI Screening Room the last time that if I hadn't called it to a close, I suspect we might still be there now! (Okay, slight exaggeration.)

There will be another event six weeks later on April 23rd and I'm hoping that we can get a Facebook Page up for on-line networking after the next one. There is a waiting list from the last event on Jan 31st but if you want to be part of the momentum, let me know.

Great Blog on Getting Punky Made...

... by Monster Animation's Animation Director, Jason Tammemagi, the creator of Fluffy Gardens. It deals with the difficulties and the rewards of doing something that you know isn't easy. If it works, you can end up with something special...

http://jasontammemagi.com/2012/01/11/punky-ifta-nominations/

Another interesting blog deals with his daughter Daisy's questions on PUNKY. (She's five.) Such as "why did you give her Down Syndrome?"

http://jasontammemagi.com/2012/01/30/creating-life/

PUNKY Dresses Up For The IFTA Awards Night....

Gearing up for a big day on Saturday 11th.

With PUNKY up for two IFTA nominations... with floor length gown and tux specified for entry along the red carpet into the new Conference Centre for the award ceremony... this could be one of the biggest nights for PUNKY!

The nominations are for Childrens/ Young People's Programme and for Sound Design. To everyone who voted for us, a heartfelt thanks.

But then it has already been a big nine months for PUNKY between the launch at the end of April, multiple screenings on RTEjr since May 3rd, to the overwhemingly positive response internationally - virally via the web, DVD's being sent overseas and word of mouth - to Gerard O'Rourke winning European Producer of the Year at Cartoon Forum last September and Target Entertainment coming on as distributor to launch the series internationally at MIPCom last October...

So Saturday already feels like a real celebration of all that has been achieved -- and very far from the scribblings of an idea that I had back in 2007!

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: FEW PLACES LEFT FOR ANIMATORS

Lindsay Jane Sedgwick; writer, script ed, tutor: FEW PLACES LEFT FOR ANIMATORS: INAUGURAL ANIMATION NETWORKING EVENT Next Monday 30th at 7pm, the first networking event to bring together a group of writers and animator...

INAUGURAL ANIMATION NETWORKING EVENT

Animators need writers and writers who like to write animation scripts need someone to bring them alive.

Here’s an opportunity to informally meet your counterpart and, hopefully, strike up relationships that might lead to new, creative and wonderful work in animation

On Monday 30th at 7pm in the Screen Directors’ Guild Screening Room in Temple Bar, The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI) and The Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild (IPSG) are inviting writers and animation directors to the first ANIMATION NETWORKING EVENT.

The idea is that animation directors and writers interested in or already writing in animation can meet in comfort, with a cup in their hand and get to know each other. The hope is that various collaborations and partnerships may form that will lead to interesting work in the field. It came about from a Screen Training Ireland gig when I broached the subject of where, as a writer, I could submit animation scripts. There didn’t really seem to be anywhere. Most companies create in-house and if you can’t draw, it can be hard to get a writing paw in the door.

And we need each other. Take PUNKY. I could have rattled around with that idea for years. As I have done with lots of other animation ideas and scripts. But for Monster Animation deciding to put their creative juices into it, it would still be an idea on a page. This, as a writer is frustrating. (Okay, basically, I wish I could draw!) To date, it’s turning into a very successful series that is on the verge of selling internationally in five countries that I know of, won the Producer of the Year Award for Gerard O’Rourke and has been nominated for two IFTAs.

But it seems to be crucial to develop ideas with the animation directors of companies, for the simple reason that if they are employed by a company, they need to be involved in most ideas produced by that company. Bringing a written idea from outside is difficult.

Surely for animators who need new ideas, who haven’t studied screenwriting or find it less interesting than drawing, it must be equally frustrating.

So this new group will meet on a regular basis. All animation directors and writers working or interested in working in animation are welcome; if you can’t make this one, let me know you’re interested and I’ll put your name down for the next one.

Could be fun!! Could be an interesting way to meet fellow writers and animators!! Could be the start of something amazing!!

PUNKY nominated for TWO IFTA awards 2012

Great excitement. PUNKY has been nominated in the childrens'/ young person's category and that of sound design. This is recognition for all those who put their hearts, souls and creative juices into bringing PUNKY to life, with special kudos going to Gerard O'Rourke, producer, Monster Animation who believed in this from the start. Once that happened, and especially once we had Ciara McClean's drawings and Aimee Richardson to bring Punky herself alive, all we had to do was make it happen!!

Awards night is February 11th.