Baboon Animation has entered a partnership with Tokyo- and L.A.-based Custom Nuts to merge their pools of writing and visual talent.<\/p>\n
Baboon\u2019s creative development team, with 31 Emmys collectively, has developed titles such as Angry Birds Toons<\/em>, Gigantosaurus<\/em> and Pocoyo.<\/em>\u00a0Custom Nuts is led by Silas Hickey, who has developed two of the most successful series in Asia, including Chhota Bheem<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cSilas and Matthew bring absolute top-class expertise [and] deep, firsthand experience in IPs from countries across Asia, and funny, funny cartoon comedy,\u201d said Baboon CEO Mike de Seve.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are no better writers anywhere than Baboon,\u201d Hickey said. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled that each of us is a complementary piece to the other.\u201d<\/p>\n Custom Nuts\u2019 Matthew Howison added, \u201cOur incoming investor base is excited by the greatly enhanced firepower of talent and global capability that this partnership brings.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cExpect some extremely funny cartoons to come out of this partnership,\u201d added Joe Vitale, head of series at Baboon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Baboon Animation has entered a partnership with Tokyo- and L.A.-based Custom Nuts to merge their pools of writing and visual talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":26132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[6250,7214,8599,7215,7011,7217],"class_list":["post-26131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-baboon-animation","tag-custom-nuts","tag-joe-vitale","tag-matthew-howison","tag-mike-de-seve","tag-silas-hickey","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n