Big plans for CBBC's animated comedy
Hours of footage commissioned
The most ambitious animation project ever seen in Scotland is under way to create a new children’s comedy show.OOglies, which will air on CBBC, is a sketch show in which household objects are brought alive with a pair of googly eyes.
Characters will include The Scramblers, a trio of motorbike riding stunt eggs, Lonely Sprout and Devious Blender, who deceives fruit into getting into him.
Two series of 13 quarter-hour programmes have been commissioned, as well as additional material for the CBBC website.
It will take a team of leading animators five months to produce – using the latest software to produce 20 to 25 seconds a day, four times the normal rate of production for stop-frame animation.
The series has been created and written by Tim Dann, Nick Hopkin, Sue Morgan and stand-up Austin Low.
Hopkin said: ‘This is a major project for BBC Scotland. As far as we know there hasn't been an animation project on this scale in Scotland before now.
‘Through the success of Wallace & Gromit, people have become familiar with stop-frame animation and characters made with modelling clay, but OOglies will be a new spin with actual everyday real objects – for the most part – coming to life.’
The programme has no connection with the OOglies toys popular at the end of the Nineties.
Published: 26 Mar 2009
