We're pleased to announce that Magic Lantern, in collaboration with CBBC and Studio Liddell, has been awarded  the International Award for Innovation in the 2010 Big Chip Awards. The Awards celebrate digital projects and practitioners in the North West of England, and we're really honoured that this year Bugbears was chosen among so many great projects.

The Judges said "the winner of the Big Chip innovation category showed originality as well as innovation by creating a series of 3D characters and a bespoke animation tool for CBBC to support the launch of a website for children, where they can discuss their own 'Bugbears' anonymously." The Innovation award is open to entrants from all over the world, and was introduced in 2008 to celebrate 10 years of Big Chip and 60 years since the invention of the first stored program computer in Manchester.