BBC Children’s: Inform. Educate. Animate.

Everything you need to know about pitching and developing an animation project with BBC Children’s!

Sarah Muller and Liz Chan will outline how pitching works, what type of materials we expect to see, and how these materials need to develop over time both before and after the point of commission. And crucially: what sort of financial or production partnerships are needed to get a TV series made for CBBC and CBeebies.

We will also meet the finalists from the BBC’s animation development initiative – BBC Ignite. Hear first-hand about their experience of developing a series idea with BBC Children’s

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Guests

Liz Chan

Liz Chan is the Commissioning Executive looking after the BBC Children’s & Education nationwide Animation development programme BBC Ignite.

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Sarah Muller

Currently Senior Head of Commissioning 7+ at BBC Children’s and Education

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Sam Shaw

Sam is a Bristol based director, animation generalist and duck fan currently working at Sun & Moon Studios. From art direction to storyboarding, Sam has helped out in pretty much every stage in a production pipeline for clients including, CBeebies, Games Workshop, Woodland Trust, Doctor Who and Louis Armstrong.

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Tim Bryans

Tim Bryans is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Northern Irish animation studio ALT Animation. Tim has been instrumental in producing a number of projects such as the animation and VFX for the award-winning series Mimi’s World for Milkshake! and the series Sullivan Sails for RTE Jnr. He is also currently producing the hand-drawn animated series ‘Doodle Girl’ with Studio Meala in Ireland.

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Matthew Bradley

Matthew began his animation career as a designer and has been working for the Northern Ireland-based ALT Animation as a Development Producer since 2021. In 2023, it was announced that his comedy series ‘Captain Onion’s Buoyant Academy For Wayward Youth’ was one of the successful series to be greenlit through BBC Children’s Ignite initiative.

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Sam Morrison

Sam spent a decade as an animation director with Nexus Productions and Aardman Animations before turning to screenwriting full-time, largely for young audiences. After writing fifty episodes of Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom he moved on to Peppa Pig, Shaun the Sheep, Hey Duggee and numerous others.

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