Two Studios Team Up For Three Delivery
Animation Collective and Fatkat Studios have teamed up to deliver a new Flash-animated series for Nicktoons Network. The 26-episode order of Three Delivery premieres this Friday at 7:30, and it’s also slated for YTV and the BBC.
The show, which features 3 Kung-Fu teens who deliver fresh food and fists of fury, features a traditionally animated look, which isn’t the common approach for TV series produced in Flash.
Here’s short clip from an episode:
These clips below are selected action and effect shots from the production, animated by folks like Jon Lambe, Melanie Albert, Matt Taylor, Jeff Davis and Neven Nesic, and overseen by Robert Keith Anderson, one of the animation supervisors.
Click on the thumbnails below so see some background layouts from the series production:
Lastly, let’s hear from some of the artists and production staff who worked out of the Miramichi-based studio:
It’s a rare occurrence to be able to animate in a traditional style in Canada in a Flash environment, and I find that it forces me to apply all the art and animation techniques I’ve learned over the years.
-Tavis Silbernagel - Director, Three Delivery, FatkatAnything worth doing in life is hard and this show is no exception. Long days, cold nights, the hard but worthwhile fights. At the end of the day it all comes together with final picture and sound and you pick yourself up off of the dirty floor and shake off the discarded candy wrappers that you used as a blanket and say, “yes, that’s the show we wanted to make.”
-Robbie Anderson - VP of Production, FatkatThree Delivery has been one of the best opportunities I’ve had in the animation business to do something truly different. The characters are believable and easy to sympathize with and the artwork doesn’t follow the usual rules of geometric shapes and bright colors.
-Alan Foreman, Art Director, Three Delivery, Animation CollectiveThree Delivery is proof that you can traditionally animate an entire long format series in flash, and that you can do it here in North America with studios like AC and Fatkat.
-Gene Fowler, President, Fatkat
Tags: Animation Collective, BBC, Canada, Fatkat, Nicktoons, YTV
June 26th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
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June 27th, 2008 at 2:19 am
ugly emo characters fight evil
hot topic merchandise coming soon
collect them all
June 27th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I think Tobey’s the only one with the emo haircut hotshot. Also, Hot Topic switched to other cliche clothing styles last I heard. Generic insults won’t cut it anymore, watch the episode tonight and THEN slam us
Anywho, I can’t wait to hear what kids(aka target audience) think about the show. It’s been fun working on it but really straining my poor lazy tween loving brain. It’ll be nice to find out how all this hard work turns out in their eyes.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
They should have just outsourced the entire animation to FatKat.
June 29th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
i’ve been waiting to see this episode for MONTHS now! how long did it take to make?
June 29th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
months…….
June 30th, 2008 at 11:20 am
The layouts look fantastic, wicked color pallete.
June 30th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Ugh. Terrible.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:08 am
pft… people with real opinions aren’t afraid to leave there name.
To get back to question 5, originally it took us 4 weeks to rough this episode, then about 4 weeks to clean it up. At the same time background, and bg paint were working diligently to complete the first round of bgs, and combined with post production, and sound design, all in all about 3 months.
However due to forces unseen to Fatkat, we had to speed up the process. Now Myself and 3 other lead animators key out 60% of the entire episode ( the harder more action orentied shots), in a week, so animators are workin on about 15-20 sec’s a week ( thats rough to completly clean and colored and shadow passed animation) and in the 2nd week the rest of the show is done. So now were doing about 600 scenes in 2 weeks, complete to color and shadow pass. And the funny thing is that were on the later episodes of the season, and in my opinion there turning VASTLY better, in a quarter the time…..
Go figure.
Jon Lambe.
July 5th, 2008 at 9:56 am
and yer paying by the second… great way to treat your peeps…
and the design sucks sorry…
August 21st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Yeah. See, okay, if you like, it, go ahead. I don’t care if you’re stupid.
The truth is, this doesn’t seem like an original show. Why? Because it isn’t.
The voice actors are what grate my nerves to most. Before anyone starts foaming at the mouth and stabbing their screens, guess what? I AM the target audience. I am twelve, and jeez… I tried to sit through an episode and just couldn’t make it.
The characters are NOT easy to sympathize with. The show (from what I was able to force myself to sit through) was NOT FUNNY and the characters are so bland, with no personality. Of course, there’s the lead girl who “kicks butt” and is very, very clever (rolls eyes) and then there is the comic relief which is supposed to make you chuckle but just got me annoyed with stupid jokes. Then there’s the “semi-casual cool” guy who has some diificulties but ALWAYS manages to overcome his weaknesses aka beat the “bad guy” with some lame moral he learned. The bad guy was a bitch too.
Back to the voice characters… Good God, they are HORRIBLE!! They don’t even SOUND Asian, except for that one girl, who’s voice actress is Asian! what’s wrong with TV when they have to hire a White guy in America to play some teenager living in China or wherever the heck it is?! Get some real Asians that don’t sound like they’re talking through their noses and have whiny, 33-yr-old nasal, high pitched voices. Bleugh! I think I would have like it better- no, at least liked it- if the voices weren’t such utter CRAP.
Argue with me all you like, but the only audience this show is gonna get is 16-year-olds that have no other lives. This pree-teen isn’t stupid enough to buy this joke-of-a-show that won’t last for more than one season MAXIMUM.
End of rant that still is full of truth.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:16 am
hahahahahaha….. were producing season 2 right now snippy.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
The characters are dry,
they are hard to relate to and typical.
The plot is predictable.
However the animation catches your eye,
and is very creative, the style is different from
common cartoons and the characters are drawn nicely.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Damn straight!