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Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation And Adult Swim At Pixelatl’s La Cumbre Animation Summit 8th And 9th April

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Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation And Adult Swim At Pixelatl's La Cumbre Animation Summit 8th And 9th April

Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation And Adult Swim At Pixelatl’s La Cumbre Animation Summit 8th And 9th April

Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and Adult Swim will be present at Pixelatl’s La Cumbre Animation Summit which will be held at InterContinental Presidente Santa Fe Mexico Hotel in Mexico City on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th April. The animation industry summit is an additional event to Pixelatl’s main animation festival which is held annually in September (this year’s Pixelatl’s animation festival will be held on 3rd to 7th September, at the usual location of Cuernavaca, Mexico). The event is a chance for animation industry professionals to network with each other and to help promote Mexico’s fast growing animation industry, the event isn’t just limited to animation studios but also other companies where animation is occasionally produced as a form of entertainment or advertising, this includes – video game studios, advertising agencies and production houses.

At the event, Cartoon Network Latin America will be represented by CN Mexico’s Jaime Jiménez Rión – Content Director and Humberto Cervera – Writer and Producer of Original Productions.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/Cartoon-Network

Yesterday (2nd April), Pixelatl, the organisers of the summit announced on Twitter that Warner Bros. Animation (Looney Tunes, Unikitty!, Teen Titans Go!, Justice League Action) will also be present:

On 21st March, it was announced that Adult Swim will be present at the summit and will be seeking Mexican talent, Vice President of Animated Production at Adult Swim – Ollie Green will be there too:

Bardel Entertainment, the studio behind Cartoon Network’s hit animated show – Teen Titans Go! and Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty will be represented by 2D Supervising Animation Director – Johnny Tesoro.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/Bardel

Renegade Animation, the studio behind Warner Bros. Animation’s The Tom and Jerry Show and Cartoon Network’s Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi will also be at the La Cumbre Animation Summit, the studio will be represented by Production Manager – Scott Lowe and Director – Miguel Angel Uriegas.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/Renegade

Cinema Fantasma, the stop-motion studio behind Cartoon Network Latin America’s Toontorial, will be represented by the studio’s co-founder – Arturo Ambriz.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/Cinema-Fantasma

Mighty Animation, the studio that produces Cartoon Network’s Viking Tales, will be represented by Creative Director – Claudio Jimenez and Head of Animation – Julio Pacheco.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/Mighty

Ánima Studios, the studio that produces Cartoon Network’s Ram Pam Dam will be represented by the studio’s Chief Operating Officer – José Carlos García de Letona.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/%C3%81nima

Titmouse, the studio behind Adult Swim’s Tigtone and Ballmastrz 9009 will be represented by Chief Operating Officer – Ben Kalina.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/TitMouse

Reel FX, the studio that has produced some 3D CGI Looney Tunes shorts, will be represented by Executive Producer – Chuck Peil.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/Reel-FX

AI Animation Studios, the studio behind the successful short-form animated series specially produced for Cartoon Network – Villainous will be represented by Villainous show creator – Alan Ituriel and producer Mayte Sanz.

https://www.lacumbre.mx/Estudio/AI-Animation-Studios

https://www.lacumbre.mx/

More Info About Cartoon Network Events And Guests At Pixelatl Festival 2018: Villainous Panel And Pilot, Steven Universe Keynote, Viking Tales Talk

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More Info About Cartoon Network Events And Guests At Pixelatl Festival 2018: Villainous Panel And Pilot, Steven Universe Keynote, Viking Tales Talk

More Info About Cartoon Network Events And Guests At Pixelatl Festival 2018: Villainous Panel And Pilot, Steven Universe Keynote, Viking Tales Talk

Pixelatl has announced more special guests that will be attending their animation, video games and comics festival next month, this year’s Pixelatl festival will be held between Tuesday 4th and Saturday 8th September, also a panel for Cartoon Network Latin America’s popular short-form series – Villainous, new short-form series – Viking Tales and a keynote lecture about show-writing on Cartoon Network Studios’ Steven Universe.

The Villainous panel is called “Villainous: Mexican Talent Without Limits” (Spanish Title: “Villanos: Sin límites”) and will be held on Saturday 8th September at 1.30pm. During the panel, the show’s creator – Alan Ituriel will be showing unpublished material including never seen before scenes, a brand new villain orientation video, and also a preview of the pilot for the series.

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/content/72/1350/Villainous_Mexican_talent_without_limits.html

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/speakers/1282/63/Alan_Ituriel.html

For the Steven Universe show-writing lecture – “Writing Steven’s Universe” (Spanish Title: “Escribiendo el universo de Steven”), Crewniverse members – Kat Morris (Supervising Director, screenwriter and storyboard artist) and Hilary Florido (Storyboard artist) will show and explain the show’s character development, all the way from the first thumbnails that were produced and also the storyboarding and directing process during the production of a episode. The Steven Universe lecture will be held on Thursday 6th September at 1.30pm.

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/content/72/1342/Escribiendo_el_universo_de_Steven.html

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/speakers/1265/63/Kat_Morris.html

Ivanobich Verduzco, the creator of Cartoon Network Latin America’s brand new animated short-form series – Viking Tales (Spanish title: Vikingos) will also be speaking at the festival on Thursday 6th September at 4pm. Mighty Animation, the company that produces the series and Ivanobich Verduzco were the winners of Pixelatl’s Ideatoon competition in 2016. During the session, Ivanobich will talk about the future of the series and what’s next for Reidar and his friends.

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/content/72/1349/Cartoon_Network_introduces_Vikingos.html

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/speakers/1237/63/Ivanobich_Verduzco.html

Cartoon Network Latin America and Mexican animation festival Pixelatl have teamed up once again for a animation pitching contest – Girl Power: Pitch Me The Future. The pitching competition will be an opportunity for female animators and creators to pitch their show ideas to Cartoon Network, however potential projects must fit into Cartoon Network’s editorial values, must be a original idea and different to anything else currently on the channel and must have a multiplatform approach, this may include short-form content or offer an interactive experience. Today, this year’s pitching competition finalists will be announced on Pixelatl’s social media accounts. The competition’s finalists will have the chance to pitch their ideas in-front of Cartoon Network executives at the festival.

Adventure Time director (53 episodes) and creator of Cartoon Network’s Welcome To My Life animated short – Elizabeth Ito will also be at the festival.

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/speakers/1256/63/Elizabeth_Ito.html

The vice president of animation at Adult Swim – Ollie Green, known for her production work on Rick and Morty, Robot Chicken and many other series, will also be at the festival as a special guest.

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/speakers/1228/63/Ollie_Green.html

Also attending the festival is Jayro Giron, Manager of Creative Affairs at Warner Bros. Animation, he has direct involvement of developing new original shows based on new ideas and based on existing successful properties from the Warner Bros. Animation library, Jayro oversees the production of the Wacky Races reboot and The Tom and Jerry Show.

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/speakers/1263/63/Jayro_Giron.html

Former Senior Vice President of Original Animation for Cartoon Network – Linda Simensky will speaking her own masterclass session “The Future Of Children’s Content” which will take place on Thursday 6th September at 10.30am. Linda was behind the development of Cartoon Network’s original “Cartoon Cartoons” animated shows including The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Ed, Edd n Eddy and many more.

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/content/72/1364/The_future_of_children%E2%80%99s_content.html

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/speakers/1276/63/Linda_Simensky.html

TBS’s Final Space’s art director – Devin “DVO” Roth will also be at Pixelatl.

https://elfestival.mx/2018/en-US/speakers/1243/63/Devin_DVO_Roth.html

https://regularcapital.toonsphere.com/2018/07/pixelatl-2018-special-guests-alan-ituriel-creator-cartoon-networks-villainous-ollie-green-vp-animated-production-adult-swim/

https://regularcapital.toonsphere.com/2018/07/pixelatl-2018-ivanobich-verduzco-creator-of-cartoon-network-latin-americas-viking-tales-invited-as-special-guest/

https://regularcapital.toonsphere.com/2018/07/cartoon-network-latin-america-teams-pixelatl-animation-pitch-competition-girl-power-pitch-future/

https://elfestival.mx/

Viking Tales Premieres On Cartoon Network Latin America Tomorrow 4th August

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Viking Tales

Viking Tales Premieres On Cartoon Network Latin America Tomorrow 4th August

Tomorrow (4th August), Cartoon Network Latin America will premiere its new short-form animated series – Viking Tales created by Ivanobich Verduzco. Viking Tales (also known by its Latin American Spanish title – Vikingos) tells the story of Reidar and his fellow Viking gang, together they traverse through the great land of Midgard finding treasure, fighting giant monsters and have lots of fun. Cartoon Network Latin America has been working with Mexican animation studio – Mighty Animation to produce the new animated series.

Ahead of the premiere tomorrow, Cartoon Network Latin America and Cartoon Network Brazil has been posting video clips introducing three of the show’s main characters – Reidar, Rolf, Helmi and Markku:

http://www.cartoonnetworkla.com

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.br