Future works

After "The Secret of Kells" received so much support from it's audience and critics alike, it was clear that the world was eager for more. They already have a second feature film in production, called "The Song of the Sea". Not much has been said about this film yet, but a conceptual trailer tells us that it will be made in a style resembling "The Secret of Kells".

The little girl is described as "the last of the seal-people", and when her mother one day disappears, it makes her life quite difficult. "Song of the Sea" will premiere in april 2014.

They also have another feature film in development called "Bluebeard". Very little is known about this production, other than it will be directed by Nora Twomey. 

A conceptual picture from the film "bluebeard". It seems the style in this production might be darker and more sinister, maybe like Nora Twomey's short "From Darkness".

Another big project coming from the studio is their animated TV-series "Puffins Rock", which is aimed towards preschool-children. This too is set on an island off the coast of ireland. With help from Dog Ears and Penguin, the series will be turned into both a TV-series, a book and an iphone-app. Not much is known about the series yet, but pictures and concept art has been published:

The story follows a family of Puffins, with main focus on a little puffin called Oona.

Another TV-series is in development, like "Galaxy Boyz"which is aimed towards a bit older audience.

The storyline for this series is as follows; Holly rescues an alien boy band on the run from the Secret service. She tries to keep them hidden, but these boys love to sing loudly, rescue kittens from trees and go shopping for white clothes. So, this might be one of the studio's more humoristic productions, maybe more along the lines of "Skunk Fu!".

These are just their biggest future plans, and there might possibly be more feature films in the making. Since "The Secret of Kells" was such a different and artist-driven film, the studio had some trouble finding distributors brave enough to take them under their wing. Hopefully the success it had will help future projects get distributors more easily. 

Cartoon Saloon is one of those few studios today who want to keep traditional, hand-made 2D-animation with all it's energy and charm alive, while still making it new. 

As a review written by a mother, found on their website says: 'My son (6) and I went to see this movie today. It was a great relief for me not to be watching the usual computer generated animation of children films. The Images were beautiful and the story held both of our interest as well as providing for interesting future discussions.' 

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