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11/01/2002
CHANNEL 4 CLOSE ANIMATION DEPARTMENT
CHANNEL 4 have closed their animation department, after two decades of customised commissioning of seminal British animation.
During the last three months the Channel has been shedding staff, cutting programming budgets and scaling down their interactive website division, mainly as a result of reduced advertising income.
Amongst the latest departures are Camilla Deakin, Editor for Arts & Animation and Ruth Fielding, Assistant Editor, Arts & Animation. As a result it will now be up to larger departments at Channel 4, and no longer an animation department, to commission animation by television genre rather than production technique.
Deakin and Fielding are establishing their own production company Lupus Films and have already been commissioned to produce Channel 4's next two Christmas animation specials. They will also act as external commissioning editors for the Channel's three animation schemes: animate!, Mesh and C4/MOMI Animators in Residence. (CD)
During the last three months the Channel has been shedding staff, cutting programming budgets and scaling down their interactive website division, mainly as a result of reduced advertising income.
Amongst the latest departures are Camilla Deakin, Editor for Arts & Animation and Ruth Fielding, Assistant Editor, Arts & Animation. As a result it will now be up to larger departments at Channel 4, and no longer an animation department, to commission animation by television genre rather than production technique.
Deakin and Fielding are establishing their own production company Lupus Films and have already been commissioned to produce Channel 4's next two Christmas animation specials. They will also act as external commissioning editors for the Channel's three animation schemes: animate!, Mesh and C4/MOMI Animators in Residence. (CD)
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