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.

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.

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.