The Fantastic World of Fantástico Morales is an animated series concept imagined by Jossie Malis (Bendito Machine) and Ricardo Espinosa, and Malis wrote, designed and animated this pilot below. It nearly snagged a 7 episode pick-up, but was scuttled at the last moment. Too bad – it looks wonderfully unhinged.
The team at Canadaian studio Loogaroo, which is run by ex-Fatkat kingpin Gene Fowler, is hoping you’ll like Space Knights, a 22-minute, Flash-animated pilot for Detour, the adult block on Canada’s TELETOON network. The project is part of an animated contest that pits 10 series against eachother in a vote-a-thon. So far, Nerdland and Dunce Bucket have proved the most popular amongst viewers, but the recently-released Space Knights is already hurtling to the top. Here’s a short intersticial clip featuring the Green Knight:
The New Zealand animation squad formally known as Mukpuddy have given birth to a Nickelodeon pilot. Dirk Banzai is actually over 10 years old, and was the very first Mukpuddy character, but when Nickelodeon International invited the team to produce a pilot for their Open Mic program, they brought him back into the limelight. Below is the full 4:30 minute pilot, and you can see a whole slew of production art over at the Muks’ blog.
Check out this new pilot from New Zealand-based Mukpuddy. The Stallion is a collaborative effort they’ve embarked on with Jamie Linehan and Ben Boyce, the stars of Pulp Sport, a popular New Zealand sketch comedy show. It’s an adult-skewing, Flash-animated series, staring Edward the Horse and Warren the Rabbit. I love this title sequence song.
Gene Fowler’s got a new studio, Loogaroo, and a new cartoon – The Insatiable Mr. Banks. He created this Pink Panther-inspired series, partnered with Just for Laughs and then Mick Harrison joined on to help with story and storyboarding. Animation was handled by Jason McArthur, Tavis Silbernagel, Andy Coyle, Jon Weldon, Ian Brenneman and Ryan Keizer.
