Tarofish me up, Scott!

 

Sean Scott of Tarofish Animation is quite famous for developing hit properties. He was one of the founding artists at Collideascope in Nova Scotia back in the mid 90's. Here he developed a show called "Oliver's Adventures". He was the dude who developed that studio as an animation power before moving on in the early turn of the century to greener pastures.

Sean (go check out his blog)then smashed the boarder to a new province and this is where he developed this neat little cartoon callled "Doodlez" that had great promise. This was with Cellar Door Productions in PEI; it did quite well indeed. 

Now Sean is in Montreal, Quebec, (bypassing New Brunswick and Newfoundland all together) he's going nuts I imagine. He's quite the dude and we don't keep in touch as often as I'd like.

Sean Scott is a television creative genius and is going to be quite famous I'd imagine. He knows the secret to making a great cartoon show and it's just a matter of time before one takes off for him.

Speaking of Sean, I'm currently working with him and Edward Kay (They both got Jimmy Two-Shoes on air, and boy does it not disappoint) on my adaptation of the Mr. Men with Chorion. I can't wait to work more with Sean!

I Can Blog About my Redesigns of the Mr. Men!

In May of 2008 ago I got an email from Diana Manson of Chorion. She asked me if I would be interested in taking a stab at giving the Mr. Men and Little Misses another face lift for a new series. I was like....um.....reallllly?.....YEAH!. I took a stab at it and they really liked it! Ive been working with Chorion and Adam Hargreaves to bring it to life. 

The show's being produced by 9 Story Entertainment in Ontario, and Studio B Productions and my company. It will air on Disney Channel internationally, Treehouse in Canada, and CBBC in the UK in 2010.

 When I was in London back in 2006 I studied the shit out of these books.So to be asked to give these characters a new look has been an amazing, honorable, hard, and fun experience.

The original Men and Misses that have been streamlined through the decades so that was a tough one for me to figure out. I wanted to keep all of Roger Hargreaves' vision without changing it dramatically.

I gave them slightly different proprtions that emphasise things I always liked about the characters. An example is Mr. Bump's feet. I streamlined them and made them bigger. I thought it would look awesome in a walk cycle and be really fun to animate in general.

I began creating a demo, show bible... turnarounds, notes and drawings showing the new designs. I'd love to post some off the show bible but Ill have to check with my producers.  

 I knew I'd piss people off by making Mr. Nervous (Sorry all you UK fans but I refuse to call him Mr. Jelly) look like his current design on the current adaptation CN airs with the book version.

Im looking forward to working more with the crew on this show! It has been a great time so far for me!