Red Kite & Once Were Farmers Form Combined Animation Studio

The Scottish production companies Red Kite Animation and Once Were Farmers are coming together to create a new combined studio, Wild Child Animation.

The 50/50 joint venture will be based in Scotland and focus on providing content and animation services for both the U.K. domestic and international marketplaces. Wild Child Animation brings together the expertise of the multi-award-winning production company Red Kite Animation (Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, Wendy) and the BAFTA-winning animation studio Once Were Farmers, which specializes in story and character creation, graphics and visual effects and 3D animation.

Red Kite’s Sueann Rochester and Ken Anderson will be managing director and director of exploration and discovery, respectively. Once Were Farmers’ Will Adams and Rory Lowe will both be creative directors of Wild Child Animation. Ron Henry joins the new company as director of operations, and Michael McKiernan will be the finance director.

Rochester said: “Having worked together co-developing previous projects, we realized that the combination of Once Were Famers’ creative skills and Red Kite’s production expertise was a natural fit. Our complementary skill sets will accelerate our expansion and increase our impact at an international level.”