Fabian Erlinghäuser
Director
at Cartoon Saloon
SILLY SUNDAYS
Co-Director
I co-directed 78 episodes of this Annie-nominated TV-show with creator Nuria González Blanco.
I was involved across departments from storyboard / animatic sign-off, Layout, locations, character design, in close cooperation with Art Director Fran Bravo, to character posing supervision, animation briefing in cooperation with Anim Director Paulo Ferreira, to Comp reviews, score music briefs and reviews with composer Dean Valentine, and finally sound mix & final picture sign-off at Gorilla Post.
Awards:
Winner:
Kidscreen Awards 2025
Best Preschool show
Nominee
Annie Award
Best Art Direction & Design
Winner
Magnolia Award 2024
Best Storytelling
Nominee
Royal Television Society of Ireland
Best Children's Program
Nominee
Irish Animation Awards 2025
Best Preschool Show
MY FATHER'S DRAGON
Assistant Director
I worked across departments such as reviewing character animation, briefing and reviewing character posing with supervisor Sandra Andersen, character design and modelsheet continuity, clean animation reviews, and general quality control across all figurative departments, with an eye on in-house teams as well as several co-production studios.
I was also involved in team casting matters such as testing, hiring, and liaising between departments overall.
Awards:
Best Animated Independent Feature
Directing in an Animated
Feature: Nora Twomey
Winner
ReFrame Stamp
Best Feature
Winner
Best Music
Irish Animation Awards
THERE'S A MONSTER IN MY KITCHEN
Co-Director
I co-directed this short film for Greenpeace alongside Tomm Moore, in collaboration with
Mother Agency London.
Focusing especially on figurative departments such as reviewing art direction & character design by Maria Pareja, on to Posing, character animation supervision, and generally ensuring consistency across departments all the way to Compositing. Lastly, music briefs for composer Bruno Coulais, and final QC.
Awards:
Winner
Annie Awards
'Best Sponsored Animated Production'
Nominee
Irish Animation Award
Best Short film 2021
Nominee
Irish Animation Award
Best Art Direction and Design
Nominee
Irish Animation Award
Best Animation
Watch it here:
DORG VAN DANGO
Co-Director
Co-Creator
I co-directed 52 episodes by 11 mins, alongside Matt Ferguson from Wild Brain studio.
I directed across departments
such as script reviews (with story editor Nick
V. Murphy) boards (with supervisor Ben Tomczyk-Bowen); Character & Location Design, overseeing consistency across departments all the way to final picture.
I am delighted to have directed composer Leo Pearson who won 'Best Composer of an animated series' for his outstanding work. I co- created Dorg with fellow Salooner Nora Twomey.
Awards:
Winner
Irish Animation Award
Best Director of an animated series 2021
Nominee
Leo Awards
Best Program 2020 + 2021
Winner
Irish Animation Awards
Best Music
Nominee
Irish Animation Awards
Best writing (x 2)
Nominee
Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence
THE BREADWINNER
Animation Director
+ Posing supervisor
I directed the 'Real world' animation teamdirecting / supervising the rough animation to maintain character performance consistency across the two studios, Cartoon Saloon and Studio 352.
I also supervised the posing team responsible for key animation reference, ensuring continuity across all sequences.
I contributed to
pre-production development, including character animation tests, character draw-overs, and acting reference.
Awards:
Academy Award nominee
Best Indy Feature Film,
2018
Emile Award 2018, Winner -
Best Character Animation
in a European Feature Film
Winner - Annecy Festival
Best Feature Film
Winner -
Annie Awards
Best Feature Film
SONG OF THE SEA
Assistant Director
Animation & Posing
I supervised the in-house team of character animators, and oversaw the quality of the character animation across two studios.
I also supervised the Character Posing Department as well as the clean animation department.
At the pre-production stage I contributed extensive animation tests to inform posing & modelsheets, and to lay a foundation the inhouse team and overseas studios could work from.
Awards:
Academy Award Nominee 2014
European Feature Film of the year 2014
Annie Award Nominee 2014
César Award Nominee 2014
Irish Film Of The Year
2014
THE SECRET
OF KELLS
Animation
supervisor
I supervised the overseas team of character animators.
I was also part of the character posing team alongside Barry Reynolds and Eve Guastella, giving design reference for the complex stylized shapes, and
helped develop the animation style through extensive
animation tests.
Five years prior to
production I was part of the small team which created the original trailer titled"Rebel", laying the foundation for this acclaimed debut feature by Cartoon Saloon.
Awards:
Nominee
Academy Award 2010
Winner
Annecy Audience Award 2009
Nominee
Annie Awards 2010
Best Animated Feature
Nominee
European Film Award
Best European Animated Feature Film
Winner
Edinburgh Film Festival
Best Feature 2009