Cartoon Masters 2026

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Cartoon Masters 2026 seminars and training pitching events for European animation professionals: Cartoon Masters are seminars and pitching training events dedicated to the professionals of the animated industry. The Cartoon Masters are designed to provide European animation professionals with the tools, knowledge and contacts they need to: - improved understanding of the market and anticipate changes; - increase their competitiveness and the circulation of their work; - integrate cross-media aspects early on in development; - strengthen their links with all operators (new and traditional) within the Creative Europe Programme through networking and co-production opportunities; - enhance the European animation workforce. We will organize 3 events in 2026: > CartoonNext: a new seminar and pitching event dedicated to the new opportunities created by technological innovations, new modes of content consumption and new audiovisual formats. > Cartoon Springboard: a project-based seminar dedicated to young talents in animation, aimed at helping them improve and accelerate their access to the audiovisual and digital markets. > Cartoon Business: a seminar dedicated to the business models of the animation industry. Our objectives are to reinforce the skills and capacity of European animation professionals throughout their working lives thanks to top-level content training, promoting the international and European perspective and cross-sectoral approach that characterize the animation industry. We are targeting young professionals (at graduation stage with Cartoon Springboard) to producers and their projects (with CartoonNext), and the buyers, financial and sales strategists (with Cartoon Business and CartoonNext). We target professionals at all levels (young talent to seniors).