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Wolfwalkers - A love letter to Kilkenny Directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart speak about their latest film and the upcoming Oscars Reporter: mary.cody@kilkennypeople.ie Pictured at the Irish premiere of Wolfwalkers at the Kilkenny Animated FeDirectors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart ');  '); For the fifth time the team at Cartoon Saloon are enjoying the build up to the Oscars ceremony which takes place in Los Angeles this Sunday. Nominated for their latest film, Wolfwalkers, which is co-directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, there are some grounds for optimism that this might be the year wh...

Jake Coyle This image released by Apple shows Robyn Goodfellowe, voiced by Honor Kneafsey, left, and Mebh Óg Mactíre, voiced by Eva Whittaker, in "Wolfwalkers." (Apple via AP) April 09, 2021 - 1:02 PM NEW YORK - The medieval town of Kilkenny in the southeast of Ireland is an unlikely home for a perennial Oscar contender. But there, among cathedral spires and castle parapets, the animation studio Cartoon Saloon has carved out a factory of hand-drawn artistry and local folklore that has persisted and flourished well beyond its creators’ expectations. When Tomm...

How an Irish town became home for an animation powerhouse By JAKE COYLEApril 9, 2021 GMT NEW YORK (AP) — The medieval town of Kilkenny in the southeast of Ireland is an unlikely home for a perennial Oscar contender. But there, among cathedral spires and castle parapets, the animation studio Cartoon Saloon has carved out a factory of hand-drawn artistry and local folklore that has persisted and flourished well beyond its creators’ expectations. When Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, directors of the enchanting Oscar-nominee “Wolfwalkers,” met growing up in Kilkenny — or even after they f...

. What makes a great animated character? GLEN KEANE I think the best characters are characters that you can relate to. You see in them something of yourself, and those are the ones that audiences connect with. Even though these characters are imaginary, I have this strange belief that when you are designing an animated character, you are designing a character that's actually existing before you do the work on it. They reveal themselves to you. Our characters, we want them to touch the audience, to break that wall [so] that they are not on the screen — they are in your life.

The small Irish animation studio that keeps getting Oscars' attention Tomm Moore, an Irish filmmaker and animator, next to drawings from the film, “Wolfwalkers,” a film from Moore’s studio, Cartoon Saloon, being exhibited at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland, Nov. 30, 2020. With “Wolfwalkers,” Cartoon Saloon completes a hand-drawn trilogy based on Celtic mythology. Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times. by Carlos Aguilar (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- When Tomm Moore and 11 friends in the small city of Kilkenny, Ireland, set out to make an animated movie in 1999 based on Celtic mytholog...