BBC Ignite: Children’s Animation Ideas
BBC are looking for new children’s animation ideas, regardless of your level of experience. Here’s the details from their site:
BBC Children’s Animation is looking for fresh, bold, innovative new animation ideas for a fully funded development opportunity.
You may be taking your first steps into animation, be a long-standing industry professional with something you’ve always wanted to explore or a production company or animation studio with an exciting new idea. Whatever your level of experience, we want to see your proposal with a view to developing it into an Industry Standard proof of concept with living breathing characters in a world that children will love.
Up to three ideas will receive full development funding to create two minute animated pilots which will be considered for a commission by BBC Children’s.
We’re looking for submissions from sole creators over the age of 18, collectives, animation studios, production companies, or anything in-between, where creatives would like to co-develop with the BBC rather than engage with the BBC via the usual commissioning process (where applicable).
If you’re a sole creator we can help you find a creative team to help build authentic and engaging characters and stories for Children in the UK and around the world.
The criteria for selection are wide and could include any of the following: originality, engagement for children, innovation, potential to run to multiple series, reaching an underserved section of our audience, international appeal, relatable storytelling and recognisable characters. But central to any idea must be that the stories, settings and characters represent the British culture and values.
How to submit your idea
Initial ideas must be submitted as a pdf document via the BBC Uploader on a single side of A4. Please note, we will not accept ideas via email or BBC Pitch. Read the BBC Uploader privacy notice (pdf).
In the first instance we would like to see a one-sheet for an animated series, targeting young audiences between 0-12 (0-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 or any combination of these targets). This should give us a sense of the premise, tone and world you’d like to develop. It can include both illustration and narrative but should be no longer than one side of A4.
The deadline for submitting initial ideas is 11.59pm Sunday 15 August 2021.