"I feel Signed Stories has huge potential to reach an audience which can sometimes be neglected, and I’m excited by the prospect of providing deaf children access to animated entertainment. 

The North East is a hotbed of talent in this industry, with great studios coming out of the region... as well as many young animators."

Curtis Jobling is an author, illustrator and animator, perhaps best known for designing the Bafta-award winning children’s cartoon Bob the Builder, and as the creator of Frankenstein’s Cat. Curtis mentored eleven North East animators as they created Handy Rhymes, a series of animated nursery rhymes with British Sign Language, text and sound.