Pixelatl is an association dedicated to promote the creation of Mexican multimedia narrative and content. Its objective is to enhance Mexican productions and to expand their audience within Mexico and abroad. One of Pixelatl’s core project is Ideatoon, a Mexican contest , bootcamp & summit that seeks out ideas for animated series and movies. The goal is to encourage the creation and development of properties that can potentially become international hits. Ideatoon is opened to all Latin American studios, production companies, animators, artists, directors, scriptwriters and producers that are willing to participate. The winners receive mentoring from industry experts and financing to produce a pilot, which can help the studio find co-productions in the international markets.
The last edition of the Summit occurred during El Festival (www.elfestival.mx), a Mexican animation, videogame and comic book festival that took place in Cuernavaca, in September 2016. 239 ideas for series or movies were sent to participate. A jury selected the best 22 projects based on their potential for international commercial success and they went on to the next step in the competition, which were pitching sessions to an international panel. Here are the 2016’s finalists so you can have an idea of the content quality of Ideatoon in the hope that you may want to co-produce, partner, or just take a look at what is being developed in Latin America.
2017 WINNERS
Meet the most adventurous gang of Midgard! Viking Tales is the animated tv series that makes conquest fun again! Laugh your helmets off as you follow the adventures of a gang of teenage vikings in their search for treasures through exotic and mysterious lands. Fighting monsters, overcoming obstacles and rescuing helpless souls; these underdogs will surpass pain and suffering in their quest for glory and justice. In an 11 minutes comedic format for 8-12 adventurous kids, Viking 6
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Tales will focus on friendship, community, union, and purpose as often viking quests do. Dust off your boots and put on the horns as we join Reidar, our valiant and brave leader; Larsen, the brains of the operation; Rolf, our most feared warrior; and Markku, the viking with the heart of gold as they come together in an adventure against boredom! . . . They also have this girl called Mishina, she’s super weird but we’ll get into that.
Ideatoon Series 2016 Winner Ivanobich Verduzco
TV Series
Adventure, Comedy
9 to 12 years
11 min x 52 episodes In development
2D Animation
Conviction and injustice can turn any giving rain into a storm.
In 18th century Mexico, Marcela, a hardened farmer, tries to save the town of San Anselmo from drought. She travels south to search for “The Staff of Clouds”, an ancient artifact with the power to create rain and give life to the skies. She inadvertently returns to the town of Monteleón, the home she ran away from four years earlier.
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Marcela discovers it’s her little sister, Victoria, that has the staff in her possession. Despite Victoria’s resentment, they join forces to save San Anselmo, but a fugitive prisoner named Zenón steals the staff with the vengeful intention of destroying Monteleón. Concerned for their family, the sisters join forces again to recover the staff.
Adventure-Action
Featured film 9 to 12 years
100 min
CG Characters & 2.5D backgrounds
In Pre-production
A teenage superhero without special powers and a gorilla with superpowers work together to protect their city Welcome to Foxbay, where adventure is around every corner! From the waterfront, where Battle Jack and Darque Manning battled the Shadowlings from Nightmare World, to Ninness Tower where Aero-Girl and the Teen Stars defeated their evil doppelgangers from Dimension X – this city never rests! Between the evil machinations of Dr. Chimera, the mechanical monstrosities of The Recycler, and the
calamity created by the Clown Cavalcade, the population is lucky to have Aero-Girl and his trusty sidekick, Jak Jak, as their powered protectors. Though set in a fantastic world, the crux of our story is about a young girl growing up and dealing with added responsibility and an ever changing world. The story is as much about Jackie as it is about Aero-Girl.
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2D and Cut Out Animation
TV Series
Action, Comedy
11 min x 52 episodes 7 to 10 years
In development
A little girl and her gator friend discover the beauty hidden in the corners of Nature If you really love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. Vincent Van Gogh Yoko is a yummy little wondrous curious girl. Always carries with her his magnifying glass and a plastic container… She likes bugs but they are very frightening to her, especially spiders. Coco is a very friendly swamp crocodile. He’s a pacifist and very calm (sometimes he stays a whole day
without moving!) Most humans are afraid of him, but he’s actually terrified by a simple cockroach. Together they will explore and discover the “nature of nature”. The natural wonders of the world that are under our feet and within our eyesight. By getting a little bit closer to nature, Coco and Yoko will have a deeper understanding of the simple beauty that lies underneath...
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2D and Cut Out Animation
TV Series Ecology
11 min x 52 episodes Preschool
In development
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FINALISTS
Little things make big friends
Ronnie turns six years old and uses his allowance from his parents to adopt a pet. His fear of mice encourages him to opt for Kibble, a giant cat, just to later find out that he happens to have the same phobia. The friendship that ignites between them makes them inseparable and gives them the courage to face their
fear together, even when it doesn’t always end well. Ronnie and Kibble have fun with their neighbors, having adventures and meeting new pets of all kinds and sizes. Ronnie proves to be able to take care of Kibble every day, and that he can be responsible and have fun at the same time with his best friend.
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2D Digital Animation
TV Series
7 min x 36 episodes
Adventure, Comedy
Preschool
In development
Imagination and playtime can help you to take care of yourself
Two kids with their imagination become super heroes and learn how to take care of each other. Pao and Ivan are two normal children, but at the slightest provocation of the simpler situation, and with the help of their imagination, they transform themselves into superheroes: he becomes Ultra Kid, the guardian of justice
with a gifted intelligence, and she becomes Ultra Girl with the super power of hyper speed. Together they will live fantastic adventures, along with their pets: Tragรณn and Bolita. The Chikiaventuras series aims to teach children in a fun way, the value and self-care of the body and self-protection against abuse.
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2D Digital Animation
Adventure, Fantasy
TV Series
11 min x 26 episodes
Preschool
In development
A child looking for explanations to the strange events that happen in his village Pipe is a child with an intellectually restless spirit and a big admirer of Sherlock Holmes. Every day he becomes a great detective trying to solve unexplained events that happen in his hometown of Monowi, a small village that stopped in time and away from everything. The villagers are barbarians and ignorant, and they are easily seized with fear and confusion from myths and legends that rapidly spread.
Outside the village there is an abandoned library, the only place where Pipe can find the answers to understand and unravel the mysteries of the town. With books as the source of knowledge and the relationship with the data collected, Pipe and his friends will find explanations to the mysteries that occur in Monowi.
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2D Digital Animation
Adventure, Fantasy
TV Series
11 min x 26 episodes
6 to 9 years
In development
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light
Petunia is the daughter of a couple of university professors. On a field trip all the family meets a small and adorable creature and decides to keep it as a pet. What they did not expect, is that when the little Mobou grows, he would begin to act like human child in spite of its unexpected 1.90 meters of height. Petunia’s parents decide to re-adopt him as their own child, but Mombou’s
life will change drastically with his first day of school, as he will realize that his appearance is his biggest obstacle to having friends and living in peace with the world. Share the adventures of Petunia and Mombou, the monster, and enjoy their childhood together facing the many challenges that they will face on each day of school.
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2D Digital Animation
TV Series Fantasy
11 min x 26 episodes 6 to 9 years
In development
Only the power of innocence can maintain the sweetness in the universe.
Candy Galaxy is a far away place that holds a quasar that sheds magical candy shards. The shards then search for a child with an innocent heart and grant them magical powers. These children help protect the Galaxy by joining an organization called Candy Galaxy Force. Adi, Tamara, Deema, and Claire are four girls from planet Earth that get chosen by said shards and
start using their powers to fight monsters and criminals and evil forces. On top of her troubles, the girls also have to deal with a mean man who will stop at nothing to get rid of them: Mr. Brittle. The girls and their clumsy but kind-hearted coach, Fay, will foil all his plans one and another time, trying to put him in jail for good.
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Digital Animation
TV Series
Comedy
11 min x 52 episodes
6 to 9 years
In development
Matt, a very shy young man, sees his life altered when he finds a strange mutant in his refrigerator
Matt is a frustrated writer that works at a fast food restaurant. His boss takes advantage of him with extremely long shifts leaving him with the bare minimum to eat and sleep. Because of his profound shyness and lack of self-esteem, he is friendless and even worst, girlfriendless. In fact, he has never had one. For years he has been waiting for
the perfect moment to declare his love to “Soledad�, his co-worker. One day, Matt discovers that he is not alone any more. The moment he opens his fridge he meets Leftee, the mutation of the leftovers that he has abandoned there for ages. With a childlike curiosity, Leftee explores everything without limits changing Matt’s world entirely.
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Edino Israel Ferreyra & Francisco Delacruz CG Animation Comedy Family
Featured film In Pre-production
75 min
Jon is a great private detective… or so he believes
Jon is a detective that every day is searching for the next case to be solved… However, since entering the Detective Academy, he has not been able to solve a single case. Nonetheless, all the time Jon is looking to prove that his skills and genius will solve every mystery that arises, but the truth is that his cat Shadow
is the one who always gets him out of trouble and helps him save the day. In his adventures, both of them will discover that by using various tools such as analysis and deductive thinking, everyone can find answers to the most unexpected situations and each case can be resolved.
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Raúl “Robin” Morales & Artemisa Martínez TV Series 2D Cut Out Comedy, Adventure 9 to 11 years
12 min x 26 episodes In development
A little boy who dreams of being a fighter, will receive superpowers to save his father and, incidentally, the world as well A child witnessed the birth of a powerful scepter at the hands of his father, Jaguar Negro, along with his uncle, El Magnate. To keep all the power for himself, El Magnate traps Jaguar Negro inside the Scepter, and tries to kill the child. But the scepter is so important that Death makes a pact with the child: she will grant him a new chance
to live and rescue his father, with the condition of destroying the Scepter, because it’s the only object on Earth able to cheat death. This child now returns as El Calavera, a fighter with powers given by dead, and will face monsters created by El Magnate to conquer the world.
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Guadalupe Peña & Ricardo Rodríguez TV Series 11 min x 52 episodes 2D and 3D Animation Comedy, Adventure 9 to 11 years In development
5 strangers. 1 unknown planet. 1000 problems to solve
A group of human warriors from different eras are kidnapped by Riply, an alien who intends to take them to their planet and make them fight in an arena for their own benefit and amusement. On their way back they encounter a black hole that sucks them and throws them into a mass that floats in space with a very unstable ecosystem, with
a permanent rain of galactic trash: leftover food, technological waste and space monsters, among a thousand things more. As the ship crashes it suffers severe damage, the four prisoners and their captor are condemned to live on the planet, while looking for a way to return home.
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Oscar Hernรกndez TV Series 2D Digital Comedy, Action
26 min x 12 episodes 9 to 11 years In development
The quest to break free from a haunted ship
Golfillo is a happy, innocent, extroverted, and impulsive corgi. Canica is an unpredictable and selfish, agile and independent kitten. Patches is a sloth bear that boasts of an intense past. The three friends are stranded on a deserted island. When they are losing all hope, they discover a mysterious ship on the coast and desperate decide to venture into
it only to discover that they are now victims of a curse. Now the three new members of the crew of the ship, must comply with any whim of evil Lady Charlotte, as well as Captain Joan and the rest of the ship’s company. Join these kids in their adventures through the sea and their quest to break the spell and be free.
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Elisa Hobart 2D Digital
TV Series Adventure
11 min x 48 episodes 9 to 11 years In development
The hero’s path starts with good deeds
Lein has protected the forest of Emiralia for some time. She has the last flame of Light, which makes her the only one that can scatter the sacred fire. However his routine life ends when he meets Riley, a small, troubled child with the appearance of a rabbit. Riley calls himself an “adventurer” who is “searching for a quest.” But in
his eagerness, he steels something that looked like an insignificant sword which in reality is an ancient and powerful relic. Now Lein and Riley most march to find the power of the sword so that Padma, a spirit of an ancient warrior, can fight darkness and save the world.
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José Manuel Félix Salinas TV Series 11 min x 26 episodes 2D Digital Epic adventure 9 to 11 years In development
People need to believe and children need to create
Imagine that you could go into space and discover that you can tame a comet. Or that you went to a stellar beach with sand like million tiny stars of all colors. Or that in one of your backpacks there was a black hole in which you could keep what you want !!! All this is possible because there is MAGIC, a city built inside the Moon with a secret tribe dedicated to protect humanity from ourselves, spreading
reasons to believe in the whole universe, so that people can fight against selfishness and greed. Now we introduce you to Felipe N., a kid with a wonderful imagination and a language disability. He will take us on an adventure to fight Eveno, a greedy and dark man, with the help of the people of MAGIC who chose Felipe as the astral pirate who can save the universe‌
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Shirel Porras 2D Digital
TV Series 11 min x 52 episodes Fantastic comedy 9 to 11 years In development
The overlord of a magical and wasted world unwillingly becomes a kid and starts an adventure to retrieve his empire
Fausto is the aged and ruthless owner of the world domination enterprise Magic Co. One day, Fausto drinks a substance that rejuvenates him, but unexpectedly becomes a kid and he is thrown out of his corporation and forced to live in the decadent world that he destroyed himself.
When trying to recover his empire from the clutches of Mephisto, his former cat, Fausto meets an old friend and his young disciple, and he learns that maybe there are more important things in life than power
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Ruy Fernando Estrada, Erasmo RodrĂguez y Tonatiuh Moreno 110 min 2D Traditional Adventure Family
Featured film Pre-production
Valery has to fight the group of beings that feed the dreams and nightmares of humans.
Valery is an independent girl with a little problem; she’s missing her left leg since an accident when she was 3 years old. But thanks to this, she learns she has the power to get inside her dream world and control what is there. In the dream world Valery has friends, like Esteban, a little gargoyle who has a secret crush with her, and her ragdoll kitten, the PHD professor
Fito. There are strange creatures like the LeFranc family, whose sole purpose is to return to our world to conquer it. But there are far more dangerous creatures inhabiting the dream world, specially one who feeds off the dreams and fears of children‌ The boogeyman.
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Big Bear Animation TV Series 11 min x 24 episodes 2D Digital Dark Fantasy 10 to 14 years In development
Tony, the human chef working at Mabú, wants to win a cuisine contest to get his late grandma recipe book and learn more about his family Tony is the human chef of the Mabú, a restaurant at land of the Alebrije where colorful monster reside. His parents died when he was eight and got adopted by Nomy, the owner of the Mabú, here he will learn how to be a chef, with the help of Ale, an alebrije huntress. Tony had an easy going life until he heard of the Bone Appetit, a contest which highest prize is a cookbook written by his lost grandmother, the best known cook of Mabú. Nomy and Ale
convince him to enter the contest to retrieve and reclaim the cookbook and finally make a name for his restaurant. After some setbacks and attempts of sabotage by the rival restaurant. Tony wins the cookbook only to discover his grandmother wasn’t what he had imagined and that his real family at the Jumu has been supporting him all along.
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José S. Escutia Slice of Life
Featured film 9 years and up
95 min 2D Traditional In development
A band of warriors who fight using music against a demon trying to destroy sound.
The Mariachi Samurai Clan has been destroyed, leaving Renji masterless and without a clan. In his wanderings, he is attacked by Esmeralda, a female assassin with a secret past. Their battle is interrupted by the presence of an evil demon named El Serno, whose goal is to destroy music and ultimately, all sound. Renji and Esmeralda eventu-
ally form a band of wandering warriors hailing from different musical genres who engage in battle using hybrid musical instruments/weapons. The newly formed Mariachi Ronin are the only ones who can stop El Serno, vowing to save music and sound from being destroyed‌
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2Dnutz 2D Digital
TV Series 13 min x 22 episodes Drama, AcciĂłn 10 to 14 years
In development
The insecure protector of the land of dreams must stop the new threat that is terrorizing the dreamers, and face his dark past Every day, thousands of children, teens and adults enter Somnoria when they fall asleep. The land of dreams is guarded by a sagharian named Morx, but this land is about to face a new threat, Terry the queen of nightmares, who wants humans to suffer making them wish they never dream again. She seeks an object of pure darkness that could make her virtually invincible and Morx will try to fight his inner demons in order to stop this from happening.
The evil queen has a secret, apparently she was not always bad... And her past is closely linked to Morx’s. On the other hand , it seems Morx is carrying a great guilt that burdens him and makes him weak but he desperately tries not to be affected by it, because he must stay focused on his mission… protect Somnoria.
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Selma Peña & Alejandro Peña Featured film 90 min 2D with 3D backgrounds Fantasy 10 to 14 years In development
Two freelance scavengers, team up to learn the ropes of heroism
Nicki and Hawn is a quest and adventure show but with a bit of a twist: While trouble and evil boils in the background, threatening to bring forward terrible world-shattering events that could change the fabric of the Universe, we see the day-to-day quests of two simple freelance scavenger nobodies who are trying to turn their business around into something a little more heroic.
Neither of our main characters is what one would traditionally want to have as “the chosen one” or “the hero” of their story, but they still end up getting involved in these larger-than-life events, and must learn to deal with them without destroying the fabric of reality
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Julieta Colás TV Series Action-adventure, comedy
11 min x 30 episodes 2D Hand-drawn 14 years up In development
STUDIO PITCH: The opportunity for your studio to find partners in the Mexican Animation Industry: meet the local studios, see their work, schedule one-on-one meetings, and find your future ally in Mexico.
THAT WHICH UNITES US: International Animated Short Competition about the social gaps and how to overcome them. You can find the call for entries in pixelatl.com
SECUENCIARTE: Presentation of the four winners of Pixelatl’s comic book contest. For more information, please contact José Iñesta +52 (1) 55 3649 9824 jose@pixelatl.com 52