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Animation company enters voluntary admin

Melbourne-based animation company Ettamogah Entertainment has entered voluntary administration following twelve months of difficulties.

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Melbourne-based animation company Ettamogah Entertainment has entered voluntary administration following twelve months of difficulties.

The company, which produced children’s animation Wakkaville for Nine, was producing the 26 part Lil’ Larrikins for TEN.

It first came under the scrutiny of the Media Arts & Entertainment Alliance in November 2009 after the union alerted its members. At the time, writers, voice-over artists and animators said they were owed more than $100,000 in unpaid wages plus superannuation. A NZ  company also claimed overdue payments.

Last December the company restructured, following denials about financial problems.

The move follows a third motion to wind up the company, this time from international finance and leasing company De Lage Landen.

Source: Screen Hub

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  1. @Kirben, Wakkavaille is indeed a horrible show, looks bad, bad writing, corny characters, really typical stuff. Lil larrikins did however have a completely different production team, apart from a couple of the standard Aussie writers (who also do the same for flying bark BTW).
    investors and banks should learn from this and put their money with people who know how to make the stories and animation, not those who don’t.
    We need more success stories in Australia, for some reason however we keep making the same stupid mistakes, with all the talent we have, the problem obviously lies with management and executives. Give someone else a go.

  2. Wakkaville is horrible and already been shown on Nine, Lil’ Larrikins looked just as bad from the preview too. So they won’t be missed at all.

    Animation companies wouldn’t have these issues, if they actually managed to produced decent or good cartoon series. Only Flying Bark Productions manages to still make some decent cartoon series.

  5. I hope those dimwits at Nine take note – there’s a good reason to pay reasonable licence fees for kids programming – you simply cannot make quality kids animation or live actin programming for less than the Screen Australia licence fee. Otherwise complete messes like this can be allowed to happen – everyone has painfully lost money – while Nine has had a freeze on kids commissioning while this nonsense has helped them meet their quota. Everyone involved in this deal should be ashamed of themselves.

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