In 2009, Cartoon Saloon, an Irish animation studio founded a decade earlier, released their first feature film, The Secret of Kells. With its bold animation style and commitment to old school techniques, at the time fast falling out of favor with American animation studios (Disney’s last traditionally animated movie, Winnie the Pooh, was released in 2011), The Secret of Kells ushered in an exciting new animation studio, one that wasn’t afraid of cultural specificity or aesthetic experimentation. With Wolfwalkers, the studio’s newest film, they seem to be both closing a chapter (completing a loose Celtic trilogy that …