Cartoon characters on the move.A Teesside animation company has received a pounds 10,000 boost to promote its children's TV cartoon at a high-profile festival in Cannes. Niel Bushnell , 36, developed the comic strip comic strip, combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts and dialogues are indicated by means of "balloons" containing written speech. Farmageddon with old school friend Gordon Fraser, also an illustrator, in 1992. Now Niel 's company, Qurios Entertainment, in Hartlepool , which employs a team of eight specialist animators and this year has doubled in size to a pounds 300,000 turnover, has taken on the idea and hopes to develop it into a pounds 2m cartoon series. It has been involved in television projects including ITV's The Outsiders and BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. sci-fi comedy Hyperdrive hy·per·drive n. 1. A fictional device allowing a spaceship to travel faster than the speed of light, especially by passing through hyperspace. 2. Informal A state of heightened activity or concentration. . Farmageddon is based on a farm where dinosaurs live side-by-side with pigs. The project has secured funding from Northern Film and Media, the regional screen agency for the North-east. "We put in an application for funding for a short trailer and were successful in receiving a grant with matched funding, so as a business we will be investing pounds 10,000 in this project as well," Niel said. Once the trailer is completed Niel is hoping to attract the financial support necessary to produce either 13 or 26 episodes of Farmageddon, at 11 minutes each, which could cost anything up to pounds 2m. |
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