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PROCOMER: digital animation from Costa Rica puts its talent and creativity on full display at Kidscreen Summit 2023

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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The services offered by Costa Rican companies are aimed at the entertainment and animation industry, such as 3D and 2D animation, concept and character design, visual effects, as well as production and post-production services.

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  • The services offered by Costa Rican companies are aimed at the entertainment and animation industry, such as 3D and 2D animation, concept and character design, visual effects, as well as production and post-production services.
  • "This is the tenth time that PROCOMER has supported the participation of companies in the Kidscreen Summit to promote Costa Rican talent in the international entertainment and animation industry and, in so doing, close business deals and make strategic alliances.
  • The Costa Rican digital animation sector is taking the leap to not only offer animation services but to create content and successfully place it in Russia, Japan, Canada, and Latin American countries.
  • This has been made possible thanks to the talent and creativity of each company's production and service," said Mario Sáenz, exports development manager at PROCOMER.

Grom Social's Top Draw Animation Founder Wayne Dearing Names Former Nickelodeon Exec Russell Hicks as Successor to Lead Animation Studio

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Monday, August 23, 2021
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Boca Raton, FL, Aug. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire -- Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:GROM), the emerging social media and family entertainment company, today announced that Wayne Dearing, whose legendary career in animation spans more than four decades – including 22 years since founding and serving as Managing Director of Grom’s Top Draw Animation division – will retire in 2022. To meet the growing animation needs of Top Draw’s roster of global entertainment customers, Grom will install former Nickelodeon President of Content Development and Production, Russell Hicks, to oversee Top Draw in addition to serving as Chief Content Officer for Curiosity Ink Media, the original storytelling entertainment company Hicks founded in 2016 and Grom’s newest division. The executive announcements were unveiled today by Grom CEO, Darren Marks, who also confirmed that Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. has officially completed the acquisition of Curiosity Ink Media.

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  • Later, the Sydney, Australia native relocated to the Philippines to oversee operations at FilCartoons, Hanna-Barberas animation production unit.
  • In 1999, Dearing realized his dream and threw open the doors to Top Draw Animation, his company dedicated to premium animation production services that now produces hundreds of hours of animated content annually.
  • Waynes retirement leaves considerable shoes to be filled and we are so elated Wayne helped us recruit Russell Hicks to lead Top Draw Animation to its next level of success.
  • Grom Social Enterprises also includes Grom Educational Services, which has provided web filtering services for K-12 schools, government, and private business.