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BU animation graduate enjoys BAFTA success

11 January 2010

Best Breakthrough Talent honour awarded to co-founder of leading animation studio.

BU Animation graduate Adam Shaw has won the coveted Electronic Arts British Academy Children’s award for ‘Best Breakthrough Talent’.
The special award pays tribute to the talent of individuals who produce the best children’s productions of the year across a range of entertainment platforms including film, television, video games and online.

Adam is co-founder of Blue-Zoo Productions, one of Britain’s leading animation studios. He also serves on the industrial advisory board of the BU-based National Centre for Computer Animation.

As Joint Managing Director and Head of Production at Blue-zoo, Shaw has directed teams behind the award-winning Those Scurvy Rascals and Stitch Up Showdown as well as Directing the animation for Cbeebies’ ambitious flagship series Kerwhizz.

Since graduating in 2000, Adam has several awards and nominations under his belt, including two previous Children’s BAFTA finalist places for Best Short Form (Those Scurvy Rascals and Stitch Up Showdown), numerous Promax awards, and two British Animation awards (Best Children’s Series and Children’s Choice award for Those Scurvy Rascals).

Adam says that receiving the ‘Best Break-through Talent’ award at the BAFTAs is an unbelievable accolade to receive.

“I’m ecstatic to be honoured by the industry,” he continued. “I have a great team around me at Blue-Zoo which makes producing high quality work possible."

Howard Litton, SVP, Managing Director, Nickelodeon UK, summed up the feeling of the Children’s Awards and Events Committee in selecting Adam as this year’s recipient: "Adam and his company are fabulous because they represent everything positive about UK animation — talented, enthusiastic, passionate, cutting edge, with a total eye on quality. I’m sure Adam and Blue-Zoo are destined for great things."