Targeting young adults/adults, the in-concept project offers an interactive, non-linear detective story about a retired comic book artist found dead at his home. “Here” (Patrones y Escondites, Spain Umanimation, France) Eyeless suffers from behavioral disorder and anorexia. “Eyes of Shame” (Joni Art, Lithuania Insomniak, France Institute for Transmedia Design, Slovenia)Ĭonceived as a VR feature aiming to provide an immersive and empathic experience of mental disorders, “Shame” follows 14-year-old Eyeless who is admitted into a hospital specialized in problematic teens. Created and produced by Federica Carbone, and directed by Anita Verona, an edutainment series in development consisting of 52 episodes. The humorous adventure of an albino seven-year girl who grew up in a little house by the sea with two astronauts as parents, who mysteriously disappeared when she was little, leaving her in her grandmother’s care. “Astrid And the School of Astronauts” (Lumiar, Italy) Projects pitched at the inaugural Cartoon Next: Three projects are in development, three at concept and two currently in production. Out of the eight projects pitched, one targets preschool viewers, another kids aged 6-9 three aim to attract tweens, another trio targets adult/young adult audiences.įrance is involved in four productions, Spain in two and Italy, Slovakia, Belgium, Lithuania, Slovenia and Austria in one. consultancy and IP creation company Polarity Reversal Orion Ross, VP of original programming and animation at Disney EMEA Aymeric Castaing, founder of French XR company Umanimation Luce Grosjean, who launched France’s Miyu Distribution, devoted to young talents and student films producer Sébastien Onomo at France’s Special Touch Studios and producer Anna Schur, head of content at Spanish gaming animation company ZeptoLab.

In a format similar to Cartoon Springboard, which focuses on a new generation of animators, at Next, creators and producers also pitch projects to a bevy of high-profile experts who offer suggestions on how to improve development or the titles’ completion.Īmong such experts at Cartoon Next’s inaugural edition were Japhet Asher, founder of U.K.

VR, Extended Reality (XR), cross-media and IP extensions were the event’s buzzwords.

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