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Monday, August 22, 2011

Oasis Animation Grows on Harmony with Lucky Fred

Oasis Animation Grows on Harmony with Lucky Fred


MONTREAL, Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - As one of Toon Boom's flagship
studios in Québec, Oasis Animation today announced that in view of its
upcoming project Lucky Fred, a 52 episode eleven-minute series for 6-12 year olds to be aired on
Disney Channel in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, India & Australia, the
studio will double its workforce and space. Lucky Fred has also pre-sold in over 150 territories including TF1 for France and
Nickelodeon in Benelux, Scandinavia, Latin America, Asia & South Korea.

Scheduled for delivery in January 2012, this 2D animated series is the
first Disney project done in Québec. Entirely produced using the Toon
Boom Harmony pipeline, this high quality project will create 70 new
jobs at Oasis. The entire animation production will be done in
Montreal. "We are quite thrilled to be working on Lucky Fred,
considering the very challenging state of the Quebec animation
production industry", comments Jacques Bilodeau, President at Oasis
Animation. "We hope this project will be the first step towards making
Québec the animation hub it used to be", he concludes.


Lucky Fred is co-produced by Imira Entertainment, Spain's leading production and
distribution company specializing in youth programming with Spain's
Televisió de Catalunya, RAI Fiction in Italy and Top Draw Animation in
the Philippines.


About Toon Boom Animation Inc.

Toon Boom Animation Inc. (toonboom.com) is the worldwide leader in digital content and animation creation
software. Toon Boom carries user-friendly animation applications for
all, catering to the needs of children, home users, creative
professionals as well as students, educators and schools.


About Oasis Animation:

Oasis animation Inc. is a state-of-the art digital animation studio,
producing high-quality animation content and providing advanced digital
animation services to the animation industry.  Founded in September
2003, Oasis Animation is based in Montreal and has over 80 employees.


About Imira Entertainment

Barcelona, Madrid and Vitoria based Imira Entertainment www.imiraentertainment.com  is a producer and distributor of top quality youth programs. It creates
innovative content for kids with strong editorial lines, and a
universal appeal.


SOURCE Toon Boom Animation Inc.

Toon Boom Animation Inc.

CONTACT: Karina Bessoudo
VP, Marketing Toon Boom Animation Inc.
kbessoudo@toonboom.com
514-490-6479


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