{"id":20243,"date":"2021-03-05T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:13:52","slug":"indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Discreet Arts Animation Studio Opens U.S. Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discreet Arts, an animation studio headquartered in India, has opened a U.S. office in Burbank, California.<\/p>\n<p>Under the leadership of President Steven Wendland, Discreet Arts USA will focus on the expansion of the company\u2019s 2D- and CGI-animated work-for-hire services for children\u2019s and family content, including film, television, gaming, apps for Android and iOS and interactive publishing. Wendland is also tasked to develop and produce original content, drawing on current Discreet Arts-owned properties as well as building a new IP slate.<\/p>\n<p>Feature films in Discreet Arts&#8217; catalog include <em>Top Cat Begins<\/em>, <em>Top Cat: The Movie<\/em>, <em>Ana and Bruno<\/em>, <em>Monster Island<\/em>, <em>Guardians of Oz<\/em>, <em>Norm of the North<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Captain Morten and the Spider Queen<\/em>. Some of the CG and 2D-animated series are\u00a0<em>Wissper<\/em>, <em>Marco Polo<\/em>, <em>Tashi<\/em>, <em>Sabrina the Teenage Witch<\/em>, <em>Lalaloopsy<\/em>, <em>Tarzan and Jane<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Puppy in My Pocket<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Discreet Arts Founder and CEO Srikanth Pottekula said: \u201cWe are extremely proud of the reputation we have built over the years of delivering consistent first-class animation for our clients, and now is the opportune time to further expand our operations by establishing a U.S. presence to build upon our strong relationships and attract new business. Steven brings years of solid expertise in animation production and creative and possesses all of the tools to drive our growth in our original IP and work-for-hire businesses. We look forward to furthering our commitment to provide creative innovation as we expand to offer U.S. clients a broad range of services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wendland said: \u201cDiscreet Arts is known for its focus on substance and reliability, consistently delivering quality animation that has propelled the company\u2019s growth over the past ten years. I\u2019m thrilled to join with Srikanth in our new U.S. operation, where we will continue to expand the work-for-hire business by establishing new direct relationships with studios, animation production companies, broadcasters and streamers, and provide a front-end office link to the India studio. And I look forward to building the company\u2019s library of properties with even more ideas and stories of universal appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discreet Arts, an animation studio headquartered in India, has opened a U.S. office in Burbank, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":20244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5923],"class_list":["post-20243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-discreet-arts","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>India\u2019s Discreet Arts Animation Studio Opens U.S. Office - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"India\u2019s Discreet Arts Animation Studio Opens U.S. Office - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Discreet Arts, an animation studio headquartered in India, has opened a U.S. office in Burbank, California.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-05T14:29:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-05T16:13:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/StevenWendland_discreet-arts-0321pi-copy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"418\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/\",\"name\":\"India\u2019s Discreet Arts Animation Studio Opens U.S. Office - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-05T14:29:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-05T16:13:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/indias-discreet-arts-animation-studio-opens-u-s-office\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"India\u2019s Discreet Arts Animation Studio Opens U.S. Office\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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