Wallace and Gromit creator and others form campaign group to press coalition government for help for animation industry
Wallace and Gromit, Bob the Builder and Pingu are going in to battle as leading lights of Britain's animation industry prepare to campaign for government support for UK-based talent.
The industry, creator of classics such as Bagpuss, Mr Benn and Thomas the Tank Engine, is seeing talent lured overseas by lucrative tax breaks. And they complain that work is being outsourced to studios in the Far East. Earlier this month it emerged that a film produced to showcase one-eyed monsters Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots for the London 2012 Olympics, was produced in China.
Animators including Blue Zoo Productions, Chapman Entertainment, Nickelodeon UK, Wallace & Gromit creator Aardman, and Hit entertainment, home to Bob The Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine, have banded together as Animation UK, to try to revive the sector's fortunes.
Wallace and Gromit, Bob the Builder and Pingu are going in to battle as leading lights of Britain's animation industry prepare to campaign for government support for UK-based talent.
The industry, creator of classics such as Bagpuss, Mr Benn and Thomas the Tank Engine, is seeing talent lured overseas by lucrative tax breaks. And they complain that work is being outsourced to studios in the Far East. Earlier this month it emerged that a film produced to showcase one-eyed monsters Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots for the London 2012 Olympics, was produced in China.
Animators including Blue Zoo Productions, Chapman Entertainment, Nickelodeon UK, Wallace & Gromit creator Aardman, and Hit entertainment, home to Bob The Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine, have banded together as Animation UK, to try to revive the sector's fortunes.
- 5/29/2010
- by Ed Vaizey, Richard Wray
- The Guardian - Film News
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