Ollie TV Series
PROJECT TYPE
Service
CLIENT
Ink & Light Films, Lunanime Studios
BROADCASTER/BROADCAST DATES
RTÉjr, and Ketnet (Belgium) launched December 2019
SOFTWARE USED
Toonboom Harmony, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Final Draft Scripting Software
Series Brief
Right in the middle of a very busy city, there is a peaceful place. It's a cosy park, closed off and forgotten, a true oasis. This is where you will find Ollie, the little blue owl and his friends - a small stork, a young frog and five little birds. Together they all have lots of adventures. If you want to meet them, you are very welcome there, if you can find it…
Small stories about big issues like discovery, friendship, being alone, and the importance of the little things in life. If you want to meet Ollie and his friends, you best come at nightfall. That's when the city turns quiet and everybody goes to sleep. Except for Ollie and his friends who are still awake, just long enough for a little adventure. The show is aimed at the dreamer in all of us.
“Daily Madness’s First Credit initiative is just one way we are able to fulfil our promise to the promotion of women behind the scenes on all our productions. On Ollie, we were delighted to provide a First Director credit to our Animation Director, Gemma Martin, and two further First Broadcast Credits to two amazing graduate animators, Claire McLoughlin and Cliona Noonan.”
Production services
Being experts in animated TV productions, a large part of our contribution for the series was structuring the production schedule and the pipeline. Setting out expectations, identifying the quality and standard needed and capable within the budget and deadline dates. Locking down the pipeline process and ensuring that all partners and crew members were clear on each section of the production, and on how the responsibility and workload would be shared throughout.
Design
We provided design services for 27 episodes of the series – including key designs, character, background, layout, rigging and scene prep. All backgrounds were built in Photoshop and all characters were built and rigging in Toonboom Harmony.
Animation files were compiled through a process called ‘scene prep’ before being passed to the animation crew.
Character poses - Ollie
Character Poses - Mabel
Character Poses - Bird
Character Poses - Bird
Animation
We provided animation services for 27 episodes of the series. As our commissioning broadcasters are Europeans, all animation was created at 25fps and HD. Once completed, we uploaded the completed Toonboom Files and Final renders to be sent to the Post Studio, Storyline in Norway.
