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Assorted Nuts Animation Studios
IndustryAnimated
Founded2002 (2002)
FounderMagnus Jansson
HeadquartersJärnvägsgatan 10, 652 25 Karlstad, Sweden,
Karlstad
,
Sweden
Number of locations
Karlstad, Sweden
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
Key people
Magnus Jansson, CEO / Creative Director
Lee Adams, SVP Marketing / Licensing & Business Development Erik Öhrner, COO & Business Relations
Bo Landin, Chairman of the Board
ProductsAnimated films
OwnerMagnus Jansson
DivisionsAssorted Nuts Entertainment
2034 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Websitewww.assortednuts.se
www.theassortednuts.com
www.facebook.com/Magnus Jansson
Twitter - @TheAssortedNuts
Footnotes / references

Assorted Nuts Studio's Streamy Award logo

Assorted Nuts Animation Studios, headquartered in Karlstad, Sweden, is an award-winning, independent animation studio and development/production house that creates animated films and characters. The studio makes animated feature films, TV series and on-demand content for international markets that, in the words of its founder, Magnus Jansson, has subjects 'spanning all age-groups and genres, from pre-school to family entertainment to adult comedy.' [1]

The studio has an American subsidiary, Assorted Nuts Entertainment, founded in 2012 and located in Santa Monica, Los Angeles.

Founded

The company was founded by its CEO and Creative Director, Magnus Jansson, in Sweden, 2002.

Studio

Locations

The main headquarters of Assorted Nuts is located in Karlstad, the largest city of the province of Värmland in Sweden.

A new arm of Assorted Nuts Animation Studios opened in Santa Monica, Los Angeles in 2012 under the title Assorted Nuts Entertainment [2] and led by Lee Adams, the former Toonzone Studios VP of marketing.

Filmography

The Goob

The Goob is an award-winning animated series featuring adventures of the character Dwayne 'The Goob' Dunderson from rural Alabama in the American Deep South as he travels towards Hollywood and dreams of stardom. The Goob blogs his travels on his camera phone, establishing the series as the world's first to feature a 3D animated blogger.

The Goob earned Magnus Jansson and Assorted Nuts the 2010 Streamy Award for ‘Best Animation in a Web-Series’. The animated series also achieved over 5 million mobile downloads and The Goob character was signed by EMI as a recording artist, releasing a dance remix of the Country song Feel The Free.[3]

The Goob series was picked up by the American online network Toon Goggles in September, 2012 [4] and by October it was the network's number 2 rated show.[5]

Monkey Business

'Monkey Business' features the Tom & Jerry-esque slapstick comedy antics of two characters on a jungle island - Ben the seasoned monkey and Al the young gorilla. The series had its UK premiere on the BBC's CBBC channel in 2010.[6]

Jumping Green Things

In 2012 Assorted Nuts entered into a co-production with Tinopolis Ltd to create 'Jumping Green things', a full-length 90-minute animated feature - tagline They needed heroes. They got village idiots [7]

My Pink World

An animated comedy about eleven-year-old Tiffany and her relationship with her father, Mike.

Girls-Unit

As of 2012, the Assorted Nuts studio was developing 'Girls-Unit', a futuristic bank heist adventure set in Tokyo in 2022 in which five young women set out to steal two billion dollars from Sumitomo-Sakura Bank.[8]

  • Assorted Nuts Studios' Monkey Business poster
    Assorted Nuts Studios'
    Monkey Business poster
  • The studio's award-winning character, The Goob
    The studio's award-winning
    character, The Goob
  • Feature poster for Jumping Green Things
    Feature poster for
    Jumping Green Things

Awards

At the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards [9] on Sunday, April 11, 2010, at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California, Assorted Nuts's Magnus Jansson was awarded the Streamy Award for ‘Best Animation in a Web-Series’ [10] by the International Academy of Web Television [11] for the online series The Goob [12] after the animated series first became a successful mobile download in 2008 achieving over five million mobile downloads in its first year.[13]

The Goob, which premiered in the US on Strike.TV,[14][15] holds the distinction of being the world’s first animated video-blogger.[16] The character also became a recording artist for EMI.[17]

References

  1. ^ http://www.assortednuts.se/company
  2. ^ http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/lee-adams-to-oversee-assorted-nuts-l-a-office/
  3. ^ http://blip.tv/the-goob
  4. ^ http://www.theassortednuts.com/content/toon-goob-toon-goggles
  5. ^ http://www.theassortednuts.com/content/hillbilly-shoots-top
  6. ^ http://www.theassortednuts.com/content/monkeys-go-nuts-cbbc
  7. ^ http://www.assortednuts.se/?q=content/jumping-green-things
  8. ^ http://www.theassortednuts.com/content/assorted-nuts-entertainment
  9. ^ http://www.streamys.org/
  10. ^ http://www.streamys.org/nominees-winners/2010-nominees/
  11. ^ http://mashable.com/2010/04/12/streamy-awards-winners/
  12. ^ http://www.thegoob.com/
  13. ^ http://www.toongoggles.com/shows/goob
  14. ^ http://www.strike.tv/
  15. ^ http://www.strike.tv/feeds/shows/the-goob.rss
  16. ^ http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9949637.htm
  17. ^ http://www.awn.com/news/mobile-and-wireless/emi-signs-goob
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