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Bright Future for Costa Rican Animators
By Explore Costa Rica.com staff
May 18, 2010, 06:37

Bright Future for Costa Rican Animators

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The offices at Morpho Animation Studio in Guadeloupe, east of San Jose, display figurines of superheroes such as the Transformers and Batman. During lunch breaks, the crew watches cartoons.

These guys are not the typical comic book fans. Morpho is made up of animators, programmers and writers leading the way for Costa Rica's animation industry.

Procomer, the foreign trade promotion agency, realized the industry's potential for growth in Costa Rica. They decided to invest in their Costa Rica business as well as help with their logistics and production materials.

“It's hard to go to a bank and say, ‘hey, I need money to do cartoons,'” said Gustavo Madrigal, Morpho CEO. “It's not normal or usual in Costa Rica.”

Procomer will focus on Costa Rica's bright future with animation here and abroad. Morpho and several other animation studios around Costa Rica will help make that future a reality. Morpho is currently working on a Costa Rica children's animated television show to pitch to American distributors.

The animation company is the first to receive assistance from Procomer. In July Morpho will have a booth at an annual animation exposition in Los Angeles, thanks to the help of the agency. Madrigal said the greatest benefit of Procomer's assistance is it permits Morpho to focus on production instead of dedicating large quantities of time to business matters.

In addition to the television series, the company has done animations advertising companies such as Subway, Rayovac and Sony in Costa Rica. Meanwhile, all the major animation studios in Costa Rica are working together on the country's first feature-length animated film. Morpho has already received praised for its animation from renowned studios like Nickelodeon and Pixar.

When there's any down time, the animators spend it mixing business with pleasure. Studying cartooning from all over the world.

“We like to take a look at animation from any country,” Madrigal said. “And try to mix it with our own ways of seeing things.”

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