FlickerLab, the New York-based design and animation studio, has created the content for three new DVD's integrating live-action and various styles of animation to create a series of entertaining and educational products for children ages 3-6 years, which are filled with hours of fun, brain-building activities, including animated segments dubbed "The Most Amazing Story," a twist on classic fairytales including Cinderelephant, Little Red Writing Hood and the Ugly Truckling.
FlickerLab Managing Partner/Creative Director Harold Moss explained, "We are fortunate to be able to bring a variety of different styles to this project and to integrate them into one fun, cohesive package. Also, working with Frank Drucker, because of his vast experience with children's episodic programming, is a plus. Having a team of talented art directors and animators able to contribute in ways that add to the depth of the programming, is an advantage, and I think it shows in the final product."
Added FlickerLab Partner/Executive Producer/Managing Partner/Studio Business Manager Tammy Walters, "This client is exceptional. Educate Products brought tremendous creativity to the project. They know their stuff, clearly love children's programming and understand how to communicate with kids. They have been a truly great client."
The FlickerLab team, led by Creative Director Harold Moss and Executive Producer Tammy Walters included Director/Senior Producer Frank Drucker; Associate Producer Franklin Zitter; After Effects Animation Director Eric Merola; Designers Jennifer May, Savark Dicupe, Max Porter, Nick Bertonazzi, Ru Kuwahata and Eric Merola; Storyboard Artists Ryan Sias and Richard Kranz. Shooting Boards: Otis Brayboy; Animatic Editors Carol Brezinski and Robert Jan deVries; 2D Animators Anand Duncan, Otis Brayboy, Sean McBride, Nick Bertonazzi and Phil Lockerby; After Effects Artists Eric Merola, Kat Llewellyn, Eddie Soto and Chris Siemasko; After Effects Compositor Sergei Martirosov; Editor Juan Guzman; Digitizer/Loader David Fishel; DVD Author Juan Guzman and Directors of Photography Bill Bradley, Rob Rogers, Skip Blumberg and Frank Drucker; Voice Over for the Bunny animations provided by Michelle Smith and for the Aaron animations by Morgan Ducker.
Flickerlab utilized Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator; Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver; Apple Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro; Panic Transmit; Gtech Graid firewire drives; iMac Intel Core Duo Computers; PowerMac G5 Computers; Apple Display 20" and 23" monitors; Dell 23" flat panel display; Apple Xserve and Wacom Cintiq/Intuos 3 tablets in the execution of this project.
For the three programs FlickerLab lensed live-action footage on location in Atlanta, GA; New York, NY; Buffalo, NY and Bloomfield, NJ.
Additional Flash animation for Little Red Writing Hood was supplied by IBC Digital (Buffalo, NY) and for Ugly Truckling, by Andy Norman Animation (Los Angeles, CA).
FlickerLab worked closely with Educate Products (Baltimore, MD) Director of Product Development Russell Ginns, Executive Producer Wendy Bronfin and Art Director Russell Zambito.
The musical underscores for the "Bunny" animations were created by Composer Stuart Kollmorgen of Red Dog Noyz (New York, NY) and the for the "Aaron" segments by independent Composer Robert Charde.
Sound design was provided by Thomas Lino Sound (New York, NY) and sound designers Thomas Lino and Johanna Bystrom and also SoundScribe (New York, NY) and sound designer Ryan Fagman.
Stock footage was obtained off the Internet from istockphoto.com.
Earlier this year, FlickerLab completed Hooked on Numbers, Hooked on Shapes and Hooked on Colors for Educate, which were released nationally and internationally in mid-May; they have recently begun work on an additional four DVD's.
About FlickerLab
Founded in 1999 as a design and animation studio, today FlickerLab's principals, long-term collaborators and strategic partners employ their skills, technology and industry experience on a variety of projects be they concept-to-screen development and production, or design and execution of commercials or broadcast promotions. In addition to high quality creative digital content development, FlickerLab works with clients to extend their project reach through advertising, Internet impact, online marketing, and merchandising.
The company's portfolio includes high profile work for media and entertainment companies including A&E Networks, Bravo, Comedy Central, Discovery Home, Disney Channel, Lifetime, Lions Gate Productions, Michael Moore Productions, MTV, Nickelodeon, Planned Parenthood, The Cartoon Network and The WB, and product/service companies including Bassat Ogilvy, Continental Airlines, Grey Worldwide, Johnson & Johnson, McCann Erickson, Microsoft, Party City and Procter & Gamble, among many others.
FlickerLab is headquartered at 7 West 18th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10011. For additional information, or to see a reel, contact Managing Partner/Executive Producer Tammy Walters at Tammy@flickerlab.com or by phone at 212 560-9228. Visit the FlickerLab website.
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