UK-based director/designer/animator Jez Hall has served as series director on a new show currently airing on CBeebies. The Flash-animated show, titled Wibbly Pig was produced by 9 Story Animation (under Jay Lin’s animation direction) and it’s based on the storybooks by Mick Inkpen. You also have seen Hall’s work – he’s the designer of our very own Federov, the CHF mascot at the top of the page. Here’s a short clip of the series that airs weekdays at 3:30pm.
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, Fatkat
Anything 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, Fatkat
Three 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 Collective
Three 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
Curtis Jobling’s 2001 book Frankenstein’s Cat has been adapted for TV, and on February 4th the Flash-animated series premiered on CBBC in the UK. Jobling’s career saw him as a production designer on Bob the Builder and in the prop department on the Wallace & Gromit film A Close Shave and Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! This series order is for thirty 11-minute episodes. Here’s the series teaser:
Myles and Greg McLeod, otherwise know as The Brothers McLeod (pronounced “MacCloud”), have teamed up Philip Cooper and BBC Childrens to create a new animated series. Pedro & Frankensheep is the brainchild of Philip Cooper at BBC Childrens and the series features a big-brained guinea pig and his patchwork pal Frankensheep as they set out on various scientific misadventures. The Brothers McLeod were heavily involved in the show – sharing the writing with Cooper, as well as designing and directing the series. The brothers even composed the music. Ten episodes were created and released exclusively online.
Nick Wade joined the brothers on the animation front. You can watch more episodes at the CBBC, but only if you live in the UK.
Handle and Spout Productions, which was founded by TV producer Paul Shuttleworth, has teamed up with BBC Worldwide to deliver a new Flash-animated series called Harry and Toto. The 26-episode show is set to premiere in Spring 2008 on CBebbies. The two stars of the show, Harry the Hare and Toto the Tortoise, aim to help teach children about the concept of opposites.
Myles and Greg McLeod, otherwise know as 
