JULY NewsRound 2009
RED KITE’S NEW TRAILER
Red Kite Animations are proud to present our new and most awesome trailer for a kids show we’re developing for TV called…the N.E.R.D.S.!
N.E.R.D.S follows the adventures of an uber brainy, crack team of super sleuths who make up the Normalton Emergency Response and Defence Squad. Together Walter, Mackenzie and PJ take on the various spooks and ghouls that seem to be infiltrating their sleepy and remote town of Normalton. These heroes’s are not your average everyday super sleuths however; as they use their super high IQ minds to thwart all manner of different monsters they come across!
All the residents seem to be oblivious to all the strange goings on that our young heroes find themselves taking care of…whether it’s gathering up ghosts or zapping zombies, they find time to do it all!!!
The best way to describe the N.E.R.D.S. really would be to think…‘Bill gates and his mates’ and you’d be about there!!
As soon as we’re all finished with our trailer we’ll let you know but please look over these stills to help give you a taste of what’s to come…!
Cheers
Red Kite Animations
Bear on the Fringe
Once Were Farmers have just completed a promo for the launch of Baxterbear – a Scottish Storytelling Bear. Baxterbear’s stories are being read at the Caledonian hotel with afternoon tea during the festival – Fringe Venue 325.
See the animation here.
www.baxterbear.com
www.oncewerefarmers.com
Abertay Ads
Jason Wagner has just completed three new adverts for the Bridge. The client, Abertay University, wanted to develop existing banner ads for television that show their course diversity and opportunity for new students. The television ads are great fun and allowed Jason to animate loads of bouncing balls, atoms, ginger bread men and space invaders! The adverts will be broadcast on STV over the next couple of months.
New Children’s Animation from BBC Scotland
Mischievous mushrooms, motor-biking eggs, dancing underpants, and a daredevil tomato…welcome to the OOglies’ world. Fast, furious and fun, OOglies is an innovative new CBBC sketch show.
Created by BBC Scotland’s Children’s Department, it is set in an ‘ordinary’ household where just about everything comes to life, when the humans’ backs are turned.
There are more than 70 characters and the pace is unremitting with an eclectic mix of 30 second sketches zipping through each 15 minute episode, shown every weekday for five weeks.
The cast of everyday foods and household objects communicate with an array of silly sounds, but no discernible words. All comic emotion is conveyed through the eyes with a healthy dose of slapstick moving the action along.
It seems simple but behind the scenes it was a major production. For four months, an industrial unit in Glasgow housed a production base where 12 mini studio pods of bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms were created, where the OOglies enacted out their general mayhem and mischief courtesy of a team of some of the top animators from across the UK.
Each of the 70 or so characters also needed up to 29 different expressions in varying sizes. At a conservative estimate, the design team customised more than 30,000 googly eyes.
Not every character is a ‘regular’ with some appearing more than others. The first episode has a melon literally swinging its weight around as some grapes get the rough end of seesaw made up of sewing box bits and bobs, and devious blender enticing other food into its clutches, while a cool magnet, ‘attracted’ to a bit of bling, tangles with some tinfoil.
Series producer Nick Hopkin says “We hope the audience – whatever age they are – just enjoy OOglies and think it is fun.
“But our serious hope is that OOglies, having brought such a creative team together, will be a spark for more animation projects in Scotland.”
OOglies
Monday 10 August
CBBC, 5.45-6.00pm