Thursday, May 17, 2012

Nickelodeon Animation Hires New Zealand-Based Production Company 'Oktobor Animation' To Provide Animation And Post Production Services On Seasons 2 And 3 Of "Kung Fu Panda, Legends of Awesomeness"

From Omnilab Media:
Nickelodeon Animation brings Kung Fu Panda to New Zealand

Auckland, NZ. Oktobor Animation, New Zealand’s largest CG animation studio, has signed on to provide animation and post services on seasons 2 and 3 of “Kung Fu Panda, Legends of Awesomeness” for Nickelodeon Animation Studios Inc. This marks the third series Oktobor Animation has produced for Nickelodeon. In May of 2010 Nickelodeon and Oktobor inked a long term output deal that has seen Oktobor become one of Nickelodeon’s hub international studios. Prior projects under the pact between Nickelodoen and Oktobor include Emmy Award winning “Fanboy and Chum Chum”and Penguins of Madagascar” as well as the yet to be released buddy comedy series, “Robot and Monster.”

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Oktobor Animation

Based in Auckland New Zealand, Oktobor Animation is now in production on multiple CG-animated series seen in over 400 million homes all over the world, including Nickelodeon’s Emmy® Award-winning, “The Penguins of Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda”, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and the hilarious upcoming buddy-comedy "Robot and Monster”.

Oktobor Animation has grown to a team of over 130 creative artists delivering hundreds of minutes of top-quality animation in [their] first year alone. [They] did this with a proven CG pipeline designed from the ground up to be flexible, ensuring that [they] can adapt to all of [their] clients' differing workflows and needs; [They] tackle projects big and small with the same technological innovation, aesthetic sophistication, and can-do creative approach that has seen many a big dream achieved in New Zealand.

[They] also have an office in Los Angeles and are committed to [their] relationships with current clients, building new partnerships, and developing new projects and technologies for film, television, and interactive.