Animation and wanderings of director / producer Tim Tyler

We have been rolling along on the re-development of this concept and have a one sheet that we are now starting to shop around to broadcasters. I am going to pitch this to Treehouse next week.

Any comments / criticism / insights would be greatly appreciated.

Toby’s Time

13 x 3 minute animation / documentary

Preschool (3-5)

Toby’s Time is a 13 X 3 minute animation / documentary series for 3 – 5 year old children starring Toby, a digi-savy seven year old who makes and stars in his own short docu-videocasts about his experiences discovering the magic and diversity of life in the world around him.

Toby is an inspired, animated (literally and figuratively) child in a live-action world who is passionate about discovering the many facets to life in the world around him. Toby goes to great effort to share his findings with his friends in the TV audience all over the world.

Children love Toby. They look up to him because he is versatile and talented with computers, cameras and technology and he uses those skills and his natural curiosity to explore stories that children want to know and learn more about.

From behind the scenes at the Rodeo, to shearing sheep, model railroads, or fighting forest fires in Northern Saskatchewan, Toby is in front of the camera and behind it all the while providing a youthful point of view for the children in his viewing audience.

Toby is not afraid to get to the heart of the story and find out in a sometimes serious, sometimes cheeky way the facts that only children can truly appreciate. That’s right everything from how many pounds of poo gets mucked out of the Rodeo Stalls in a day to the number of pieces of railroad track it would take to make a model railroad that could span the planet or go to the moon. These are just some of the facts that Toby will share with his friends along the way.

As an animated child, Toby has access to a wide range of places and situations that most children never experience. Toby uses that access to provide a unique point of entry into the exciting world that exists just beyond the front door.

Toby’s Time is a series that aims to introduce children, in a fun, educational manner, to the diversity of life and experience that can be found within Canada, this great land of ours.

For more information about this show please contact Tim Tyler, Producer.
tel: 306.652.2102 email:tim@cheshiresmile.com http://www.cheshiresmile.com
2007 Birkland Bros. Entertainment and Cheshire Smile Animation Inc.
All Rights Reserved

Ever since the day I realized that I can not simply walk into a store and by a Wii, my desire to own one has been going through the roof.

Last week I saw a flyer from Zellers advertising that they were going to have Wii consoles in, and on sale. How great is that! I called down a learned that there was going to be 4 consoles at the Zellers near where I live and the were going to be available to the public at 10 am on Friday (Good Friday) morning.

My son Jonah, who is just as compulsive as I am, had at this point got into the act and agreed with me that the thing to do was for us to get up early and go wait in line at the Zellers so we could get one. So at 8 am we wandered down and got into line. When we arrived, there was one other person, an older gentleman who was hoping to get one for his grandchildren.

Over the next couple of hours before the store opened, quite a few people showed up and the atmosphere turned first into a bit of a coffee party and then as the hour neared it turned to the competitive as everyone jockeyed for that optimum place in line. Sadly for us, this Zellers has two doors to get in to the store, and of course, they opened the other set of doors leaving us essentially in the cold. When I got to the counter all 4 were spoken for - the people who had shown up first and lined up for hours were left hanging.

I complained a little to the people at Zellers and told them that it was unfair that they had no way of managing this any better. They just looked at me and shrugged in that way that only a person who is working for just over minimum wage can.

Downhearted and a little dejected, Jonah and I left the store empty handed.

This is where the Act of Kindness comes in.

As Jonah and I moped outside the store, Jonah a little more than me (he really was on the verge of tears - it is a lot of work to wait in line for 2 hours at 7 years of age), one of the people who had purchased one of the consoles came up to me and we started talking. He had come down to buy one for his kids but when he called to tell them he had got one, they were all still sleeping. Put off by his own children’s lack of passion, he returned it so that Jonah could have it.

“What comes around goes around, you must have done something nice for someone this week.”

Thank you sir!

Your kindness and generosity was truly inspiring, and we have had a great time playing on that console.

Now it is my turn to pass that act of kindness around……..

A Mohawk-a-doodle back from her morning walk. Doesn’t she look tuff?

Ruff Ruff!!