FESTS AND EVENTS Amazon’s ‘Tumble Leaf’ Wins Five Daytime Emmy Awards

Amazon’s Tumble Leaf dominated the animation categories in the 42nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards, winning five awards, including Outstanding Preschool Children’s Animated Program.

The series also took home four individual achievements for lead animator Michael Granberry, character designer Drew Hodges, production designer Jason Kolowski and colorist Robyn Yanoukos.

Overall, it was a great night for animation on streaming video with three wins for DreamWorks Animation Television’s All Hail King Julien, which streams on Netflix, and two for Moonbot Studios’ short film Silent, which was made for Dolby and entered as a YouTube project.

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