The Chris O’Dowd animated pre-school series, Puffin Rock has been picked-up by the international streaming giants, Netflix who will exclusively stream the show from September 2015 in the US, Canada, Latin America, Benelux, France and Germany.

Puffin Rock is a collaborative production, made by Oscar-nominated animators, Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny and Derry-based children’s media company, Dog Ears, and book publishers, Penguin.

“We couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with such a diverse group of creative talent on these new Netflix series for kids,” said Netflix VP of Global Independent Content, Erik Barmack as the platform unveiled its new children properties.

When Cartoon Saloon received its second Oscar nomination in January of this year, Newstalk spoke to co-founder Paul Young “I’m shaking here, I can’t believe it” was his initial reaction.

The film, Song of the Sea ultimately lost out to Big Hero 6.

Fellow co-founder, Tomm Moore recently spoke to Down to Business, he explained to Bobby Kerr that it's no easy feat to create an animated film, outlining the intricate process that goes into building a film from scratch. 

"We're the lead studio so we do all the main designs. We do the blueprints for the whole production maybe about 20 minutes of the animation to set the standard - all the main backgrounds, the main design, the writing story-boarding and then our partners would follow on from there.

"Usually you record the voices very early on when you only have a rough storyboards and then the animators can be inspired by the actor's performance and the music would be a collaboration right from the start. 

"You might have some of the key themes written early on and then at the end when the film's completed, you record it with the orchestra."