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==Founded==

The company was founded by its CEO and Creative Director, Magnus Jansson, in Sweden, 2002.

==Studio==

===Locations===

The main headquarters of Assorted Nuts is located in [[Karlstad]], the largest city of the province of [[Värmland]] in Sweden.

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==Filmography==

===The Goob===

The Goob is an award-winning animated series featuring adventures of the character Dwayne 'The Goob' Dunderson from rural Alabama in the American Deep South as he travels towards Hollywood and dreams of stardom. The Goob blogs his travels on his camera phone, establishing the series as the world's first to feature a 3D animated blogger.

The Goob earned Magnus Jansson and Assorted Nuts the 2010 Streamy Award for ‘Best Animation in a Web-Series’. The animated series also achieved over 5 million mobile downloads and The Goob character was signed by [[EMI]] as a recording artist, releasing a dance remix of the Country song <i>'''Feel The Free'</i>''. <ref>http://blip.tv/the-goob</ref>

The Goob series was picked up by the [[United States|American]] online network [[Toon Goggles]] in September, 2012 <ref>http://www.theassortednuts.com/content/toon-goob-toon-goggles</ref> and by October it was the network's number 2 rated show. <ref>http://www.theassortednuts.com/content/hillbilly-shoots-top</ref>

===Monkey Business===

'Monkey Business' features the ''Tom & Jerry''-esque slapstick comedy antics of two characters on a jungle island - Ben the seasoned monkey and Al the young gorilla. The series had its [[UK]] premiere on the [[BBC]]'s [[CBBC]] channel in 2010. <ref>http://www.theassortednuts.com/content/monkeys-go-nuts-cbbc</ref>

===Jumping Green Things===

In 2012 Assorted Nuts entered into a co-production with Tinopolis Ltd to create 'Jumping Green things', a full-length 90-minute animated feature - tagline <i>'''They needed heroes. They got village idiots'</i>'' <ref>http://www.assortednuts.se/?q=content/jumping-green-things</ref>

===My Pink World===

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===Girls-Unit===

As of 2012, the Assorted Nuts studio was developing 'Girls-Unit', a futuristic bank heist adventure set in [[Tokyo]] in 2022 in which five young women set out to steal two billion dollars from Sumitomo-Sakura Bank. <ref>http://www.theassortednuts.com/content/assorted-nuts-entertainment</ref>

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|File:Jumping Green Things - Assorted Nuts.jpg | Poster for ''Jumping Green Things''

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==Awards==

[[File:The Goob - Assorted Nuts award.jpg|right|150px]]

At the 2nd Annual [[Streamy Awards]] <ref>http://www.streamys.org/</ref> on Sunday, April 11, 2010, at the [[Orpheum Theatre]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], Assorted Nuts's Magnus Jansson was awarded the Streamy Award for ‘Best Animation in a Web-Series’ <ref>http://www.streamys.org/nominees-winners/2010-nominees/</ref> by the International Academy of Web Television <ref>http://mashable.com/2010/04/12/streamy-awards-winners/</ref> for the online series The Goob <ref>http://www.thegoob.com/</ref> after the animated series first became a successful mobile download in 2008 achieving over five million mobile downloads in its first year. <ref>http://www.toongoggles.com/shows/goob</ref>

The Goob, which premiered in the US on [[Strike.TV]] ,<ref>http://www.strike.tv/</ref> <REFref>http://www.strike.tv/feeds/shows/the-goob.rss </REFref>, holds the distinction of being the world’s first animated video-blogger. <ref>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9949637.htm</ref> The character also became a recording artist for [[EMI]].<ref>http://www.awn.com/news/mobile-and-wireless/emi-signs-goob</ref>

==Links==

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==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Animation studios]]