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 Ambience
Adds Pep to Pop Pups
Following the success of Ambience Entertainment and A Stark Production's
animated series, The "Pop Pups", which have been screening
on the ABC during 2003, the Australian National Broadcaster has
purchased a further 19 episodes.
The one-minute episodes, created for pre-schoolers are based on
the three balloon puppies that originally appeared on the 'ABC Kids'
commercials. The new episodes will air on The ABC immediately.
"We are really delighted to have the Pop Pups again screening
on the ABC, who have been strong supporters of the series since
the very inception of the idea." said Avrill Stark, Producer
of the series.
The "Pop Pups" follow the adventures of three cheeky little
puppies as they play with their toys and interact with each other
developing imaginative and funny adventures. The Puppies have a
squeaky, balloon like quality and their world consists of fun, happy
colours that sit outside the realm of the ordinary. Using simple
stories that ignite childrens' imagination, the series, uses movement,
music and sounds to portray the jolly existence of the three puppies
and their friends.
"We feel that the Pop Pups appeal is global as they have been
produced in such as way as to use music, movement, colour and sound
to showcase their adventures without the use of any particular phonetic
language" added Avrill Stark.
Ambience Entertainment's Head of 3D, Shaun Schellings was involved
in the initial pitch and animation of the first nine episodes. He
spent quite some time researching puppies, concentrating on the
dogs movement and behavior, specifically their walk and run cycles.
"The process of animating was relatively smooth with all the
scripts written in house" said Shaun. "The project was
a lot of fun for the animators. The characters and story were kept
simple to allow the animator to really bring the character alive."
The puppies were all animated separately with the secondary animation
of the tail, nose and ears being all hand animated adding life to
the final creation of these wonderful little characters.
The Pop Pups are also heading to France where they will screen on
children's broadcaster TiJi which is a French channel on cable and
satellite for children under 7 years olds and second lead kids'
channel in terms of audience ratings for the 4-10 years olds from
January 2004.
"It was such a coup for Ambience and A Stark Production to
secure Tiji as a broadcaster in France as Tiji have a wonderful
reputation for airing beautiful, quality
children's content" said Avrill Stark, Producer of the series.
CREDIT LIST
Visual (Ambience Entertainment)
- Shaun Schellings - 3D Animator
- Ben Goerlach - 3D Animator
- Duncan McLaren - 3D Animator
- Tim Mackintosh - 3D Animator
- Nick Lines - 3D Animator
- Wayne Osborne - 3D Animator
- Tim Gosbly-Smith - 3D Animator
- Ryan Grobins - 3D Animator
- Laef Hosking - Compositor
- Bianca Di Crescenzo - Compositor
Audio (Tracks Television)
- John Wyatt - Mixer
- Penn Robinson - Sound Effects Track Lay
- Paul Huntingford - Foley Artist
- Danielle Wiessner - Foley Recordist
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