This Friday, January 18th at 7:30pm (ET/PT), Cartoon Network (US) is premiering the first episode of the new Flash-animated series George of the Jungle. The show was co-produced by Classic Media, Teletoon Canada and Studio B Productions, who also physically produced the project. According to a recent New York Times article, Cartoon Network picked up 52 11-minute episodes, which will air in half-hour blocks in the above-mentioned time slot. For those who remember the original series that Jay Ward produced back in 1967, you’ll recall this was also a primetime show.
Below is the title sequence followed by a short episodic clip.
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Fans of the groundbreaking 1982 Disney film Tron will get a kick out of this. Ron Doucet at Collideascope dug up some clips from their 2002 work on Teletoon’s series Ollie’s Under the Bed Adventures (now Olliver’s Adventures), and is using the material in his Flash animation class to teach special effects. The episode he chose from the series sees Olliver get sucked into his PC, where he’s dumped into the Tron universe. Here’s a few clips (no audio):
Head over to Ron’s original post to see heaps of model sheets, more effects clips, and if you watch closely you’ll also see a reference to the video game classic Q*Bert.[link]
Fatkat, the 120-strong animation studio in New Brunswick, Canada, has just announced their inclusion in The Detour on TELETOON Pilot Project. Debuting in the Fall of 2008, the pilots are aimed at playing alongside Teletoon favorites like Robot Chicken and Tripping the Rift.
Fatkat’s submission, Space Knights, is an animated parody of superhero shows from the 90’s like Disney’s Power Rangers. The Fatkat blog explains that the series would follow “the misshapen adventures of the crime-fighting team who must battle bickering and in-fighting almost as much as the external foes they face.”
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Total Drama Island, a new Flash-animated series created by Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch, begins airing on Sunday July 8th on Canada’s Teletoon network. This reality show spoof series comes from Fresh Animation and is being animated by Elliott Animation with big help from CHF regulars Todd Kauffman and Mark Thornton, otherwise known as Neptoon Studios.
You can watch this same trailer on the Total Drama Islandwebsite where users can create customized avatars, play 26 unique games, and read a weekly email tabloid magazine tailored to each player.
And now here’s a :30 second promo that’s been airing on Teletoon.
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Toronto-based Blueprint Entertainment has teamed up with Jetix Europe to release a new Flash-animated series titled Iggy Arbuckle. The series is aimed at the 6-to-11 year old crowd, and was a produced along with National Geographic Kids and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures. According to Oasis International, the series “is a fast paced animated, buddy-comedy series that doesn’t just explore the wonders of the natural world, it burrows right down and rolls around in it like a piggy in the mud!” Last year, the series also saw orders from Canada’a Teletoon network. Head over to the Oasis website to see a short teaser clip.
Animax Entertainment and ESPN just launched the third season Off-Mikes with a new episode titled Casting Slouch. The Flash-animated series takes audio from the Mike & Mike radio show and re-imagines them as animated moments. Off-Mikes recently won the Spots Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Content for Non-Traditional Platform.
26-episodes of Edgar & Ellen, the Flash-animated series produced by Star Farm Productions, has been acquired by Nickelodeon channels in France, Italy and 7 other markets. The series, which started in book-form, also has a 6-book series in place with 14 international publishers.
As announced in Animation Magazine, Lola and Virginia, a Flash-animated series co-produced by Icon Animation & Millimages, has launched on the Animania HD channel. The 12-minute episodes follow Lola and Virginia, who live in the same neighborhood, but have vastly different lifestyles.
Pucca, the Flash-animated series produced by Studio B Productions, has received a second season order by Jetix Europe. The series is based on characters created by Vooz out of Korea. Pucca also airs in the US on Jetix blocks on Toon Disney.
Cartoon Network Europe has announced a new Flash-animated series for January 2008 - Best Ed. It’s aimed at the 8-12 market, and it’s being developed by Teletoon and Cartoon Network UK and animated by 9 Story Entertainment. The story centers on the unlikely relationship between a dog named Ed and his friend Buddy, a squirrel.
Over in the CHF message boards, I’ve posted my intentions to overhaul the Wikipedia ‘Flash animation‘ post. It’s woefully in need of repair and updating, and I think we’re just the community to take care of this situation. For starters, let’s figure out the timeline for Flash-animation on broadcast television. Why does this matter? To know where we’re going in our ‘paperless 2D’ industry, we need to know where we’ve come from. This is a great opportunity to cement the history of the rapidly-growing digital 2D medium.
In my mind, this first list should include any type of Flash animation on TV. This would include TV series, TV commercials, interstitials and even title sequences. Below is what I could come up with, but I’m expecting plenty of revisions and additions to this:
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