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"The official visual retrospective of the first 25 years of Cartoon Saloon.

For twenty-five years, Cartoon Saloon has been telling stories through art. What began as a small studio with big ambitions has grown into a body of work that has travelled around the world while always remaining rooted in creativity, craft, and a deep love of animation.

The Art of Cartoon Saloon: 25 Years is a celebration of that journey. Across 300 pages, this book brings together artwork from every corner of our catalogue—from beloved feature films to television series, and short films that have helped shape who we are. It is a collection of sketches, paintings, character designs, storyboards, concept art, and visual explorations that trace the evolution of ideas from their earliest spark to the screen.

Alongside familiar images are pieces of never-before-seen artwork, drawn from our archives and shared publicly for the first time. Together, they offer a rare glimpse into the creative process behind the stories, characters, and worlds that have defined Cartoon Saloon over the last quarter century.

Whether you have followed our work from the beginning or are discovering it for the first time, we hope these pages invite you behind the scenes and into the heart of our creative journey.

Thank you for being part of the story."

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"The excitement around Mebh and the Wolf Pups has us ready for adventure 🐺, looking forward to cartoon_media.eu this September!.

Mebh is a wild, adventurous young girl, a Wolfwalker! Her pack is made up of four regular wolf pups, each with its own distinct personality. This gang of friends explore the forest, make new friends, and help the other animals they share a home with - friendly mice and squirrels, a grumpy badger and more. Full of mischief, Mebh and the Wolf Pups often cause mayhem with their boisterous fun but, when Mebh transforms into a wolf, she connects with nature and her environment allowing her and her pals to solve any problem! There is a huge woodland out there for Mebh and the Pups to explore, filled with friends to meet and no end of adventure!

Mebh and the Wolf Pups is a TV series prequel to the Academy Award® nominated film WolfWalkers where we get to know Mebh and her wolf pack before she met Robyn."

This symbolism can be seen in how the Abbot, for example, finally understands the value of the book by seeing how it and Brendan survived and grew while the wall he was obsessed with finishing never ended up working and lost his ability to appreciate the other things in life. Or how in Song of the Sea the shell is the main object Ben has held onto to remind him of Bronach, but as he grows to understand and appreciate Saoirse more, he slowly heals that wound and when the shell breaks, he doesn't care and immediately sprints to save Saoirse, which is an amazing way to show Ben "letting go" of the past. Finally, in WolfWalkers, the flower is a smaller token of appreciation that starts between Robyn and Bill but slowly starts growing into a token of friendship and ultimately leads to a token of understanding between Bill and Mol, who previously were completely against each other and illustrates the entire conflict arc in a simple and clever way.