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:

The series was produced by Mackinnon & Saunders and Kayenta Productions, and a few CHF regulars were involved in the production. Ian Culbard was on the pilot team and the Brothers McLeod wrote several episodes.

Curtis Jobling, a British illustrator and animator, has teamed up with fellow countryman I. N. J. Culbard to bring Biteneck Beatniks to life. This original series concept created by Jobling did a lap around the MIPCOM floor earlier this year, and is currently aiming towards a full pilot. The two brought in Luc Chamberland and Sardine Productions team to create this 2-minute animated teaser below.

Just when you think you know all of the great Flash animators out there, you stumble onto another. Well, it shouldn’t have taken me so long - Ian Culbard, who hails from the UK, has been following this site and posting here for a while now. But then once he turned me onto a Golden Nuggets TV spot he animated, I was hooked. Then, about 2 days later, I’d finally gotten all the way through his body of work, and I was ready to share. So cancel your meeting, skip your class and turn up your volume. Ian Culbard has been busy.

We’ll start with ‘Death Metal,’ a short film he made only a few weeks ago.

Next is a short Ian animated and directed called ‘Dagmar’s Friend,’ which was written by Ian Carney.

Had enough? Me neither. Here’s a trailer Ian made for ‘Biteneck Beatniks,’ a series he’s working on with Curtis Jobling.

He’s got another half-dozen projects in motion, including a series for the BBC based on Curtis Jobling’s book ‘Frankenstein’s Cat,’ a Dark Horse comic he drew in Flash, a TV commercial he can’t talk about just yet, his own indie feature project ‘Grimmwood,’ for which he’s hoping to incorporate some Swift 3D shots.

Whew! And lastly, I’d like to direct your attention over to the Message Boards where you can see the aforementioned Golden Nuggets commercial he did through Picasso Pictures. Great stuff, Ian!