The Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon more than doubled its profits in 2020, following the release of the Oscar-nominated Wolfwalkers.
The animation studio’s recently filed accounts show that its profits rose from €452,000 in 2019 to €1.18 million last year.
Last year it worked on My Father’s Dragon, a show for Netflix, which according to the accounts cost it €5.827 million to produce. The studio was also busy with Dorg Van Dango, a comedy that was shown on RTE and then had its rights acquired by Nickelodeon.
Puffin Rock, a preschool animated series, which has had its rights sold to Netflix, cost the company €650,000 in production services last year. Puffin Rock the Movie, produced with a Chinese partner, CNB, is due for release next year.
It also worked on Vikingskool, set to be released on Disney+, and another preschool series, Silly Sundays, will be shown on Cartoonito.
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According to the company, the pandemic did not have an impact on the studio, with all staff operating from home.
The studio, founded in 1999 by Paul Young, Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, has been nominated for five Oscars, and has had Golden Globe, Emmy and Bafta nominations.
In 2020 it released a short film called There’s a Monster in My Kitchen about Amazon deforestation.
