Policy brief on developing Iran's animation industry

The animation industry is recognized as one of the strategic branches of the creative industries and is growing rapidly in the world. In addition to high profitability and revenue generation, this industry also has an impact on the cultural dimension, and since children and adolescents make up a large share of the audience for animation products, it plays a significant role in cultural formation and lifestyle. Therefore, countries that lead in this industry can, by producing appealing animation works, change a region's culture as they wish. Accordingly, leading countries have made substantial investment in this field.

Despite the economic potential of the animation industry and the thousands of years of history of animating images, unfortunately this industry has not developed in the country and faces numerous challenges. Accordingly, given the economic potential in the animation industry on the one hand and, on the other, the efforts made by some activists and stakeholders in animation to industrially produce animation products and to upgrade technological and knowledge capabilities at various stages of producing animation products, there is a need for strategic planning to develop the animation industry, and in the present document the policy brief on developing Iran's animation industry is addressed.