The APPeal of Pok Pok

 The first two stories I wrote for Pok Pok have become episodes on their official YouTube channel.

Pok Pok is an educational app for kids, and they have an associated YouTube channel that does gentle learning and entertainment videos using toys and characters from the app.

I was approached about working with them, and was happy to agree to write storylines for them. I've done a lot of toyplay before, so this was nothing new - but it's always nice to make some charming, simple little tales for younger audiences (especially when my other job is making robots punch each other!)

It's a lot less script intensive, the team like to adapt things as they shoot and match the particular voice they want. But I'm generating concepts and writing out the full plots for them to take into the studio.

The first episode is about Gardening and the second is a mystery about a Giant Egg! (with another in production on the way!)

Enjoy!

Fire Fire! Kidibli Premiere 🔥🔥

 The first episode of the Kidibli reboot has gone live! In fact, the first two episodes have!

The first about waffles in the toaster is the final version of the pilot that I created the animatic for. The second is an episode I actually wrote(!) about a cat getting stuck in a tree.

Watch them both below here:

This was a really fun project to work on, and figure out the brand new format for the show. There's a couple more episodes I have written that should come out in the next few weeks, so keep your eyes peeled!

It was great to work closely with Jeremy Krause again, and fellow writer Jessie Stephenson (quite possibly our first project since Popeye!) looking forward to many more as the series progresses.

Kidibli

 In the wake of my departure from WildBrain, I was given the fantastic opportunity to work on a series refresh for the studio Animaj.

They were looking to revitalise their digital show Kidibli - bringing a similar energy to what was produced for Kiddyzuzaa.

I had the pleasure of working with a number of my former WildBrain/Kiddyzuzaa colleagues for the project, and I hope it continues to be a lot of fun!

My role, initially, on the project was to help produce an animatic for the pilot episode, that would be used as part of the internal pitching to greenlight the full series. Written by the incomparable Jeremy Krause.

Originally this was about glue and had a slightly different execution.

But then the team pivoted to an episode about misusing a toaster (and starting a fire.)

I'm very happy with how the animatic turned out. I used a combination of assets provided by our fantastic illustrator Courtney Summers, along with my own drawings and some real photos of an actual fire engine toy that I bought for the project.

The idea was that the show would have a mixed media look, swapping between live-action, stop-motion and hand-drawn animation for different moments.

Being a wholly illustrated 2D animatic, it was important to express this visual distinction as much as possible - hence the different styles throughout the piece.

I'm thrilled to say it was a success and the project is going into production. I am on board as a writer and storyboard artist for the show. I will share more as things progress!