Canadian producer CarpeDiem is opening Animation Station Inc., a new toon studio based in central Montreal. The company has hired about a dozen employees, including studio manager Fran’ois Vachon, who has worked as a compositer on the feature films 300 and Pinocchio P3K. The launch coincides with the start of production on My Life Me, a new animated series co-produced by TV-Loonland for TELETOON Canada, France 2 and Canal J.
‘Our new digital studio will attract more great artists like Svetlana Chmakova (co-creator of My Life Me) to come and develop their projects with us; it’s also a drawing card for new international partnerships,’ comments Marie-Claude Beauchamp, president of Carpediem. ‘And with Fran’ois Vachon managing the studio, it will really set the creator-friendly tone we want to nourish. I’m confident that My Life Me is the first of many distinctive, original projects for Animation Station.’
The manga-inspired My Life Me uses humor to highlight central issues relevant to teen life, such as testing the boundaries of friendship, finding balance between social and school life, and suffering increasingly embarrassing parents. TV-Loonland will handle all international distribution rights in all media including licensing and merchandising.
Animation Station will also produce accompanying mobile and interactive components for My Life Me. The studio is equipped with new state-of-the-art workstations running a wide range of software including Toon Boom Harmony 2D animation, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Maya Unlimited and Photoshop Master CS3. The facility will initially work solely on CarpeDiem productions.
