Joy The Christmas Penguin – Unveiled

The latest Christmas Offering from Cheshire Smile Animation Inc. We were pitching this show at KidScreen Summit in NYC this February.

1 x 48 Minute Animated Genre: Family / Animation / Adventure / Christmas

Joy, an intrepid penguin, journeys to the North Pole to learn the secret of flight from Santa and his reindeer.  Along the way she must foil SKY PIRATES, three bumbling elves-gone-wrong, bent on destroying Christmas.

It’s like: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer meets Happy Feet.

JOY is both an optimist and a dreamer.  She confesses to her only friend BLIZZ that she longs to soar in the sky like other birds.  But when Blizz accidentally reveals her secret to several other penguins, she is ridiculed and ostracized.  Humiliated, Joy embarks on a quest to the North Pole, where she hopes to learn the secret of flight from Santa and his Reindeer, cleverly hitching a ride on a plane carrying kids’ Christmas letters to the North Pole.

Blizz, shaken by guilt at revealing Joy’s secret, convinces the penguins who made fun of Joy to help him find her and bring her back home.  Meanwhile Joy’s plan is working: she is hidden away safely in a crate full of letters headed to the North Pole, when suddenly it is hijacked by three mysterious thieves.

At the South Pole, Blizz leads the grumbling penguins due north, only 11, 486 miles to go!  As the group complains about their impossible journey, Blizz finds a camp of polar weather scientists preparing to move to the North Pole where winter has just begun.  He convinces the other penguin to stow away among scientific equipment about to be shipped to the North Pole.

Joy discovers that the thieves who have stolen all of Santa’s letters are Sky Pirates: FINCH, HORRACE and TINSEL, three bumbling, disgruntled, disgraced elves, fired from Santa’s workshop for making unsafe toys.  They have vowed revenge and are determined to destroy Santa’s reputation by putting an end to Christmas.  Without the children’s Christmas wish letters, Santa won’t have a clue which presents to make or deliver.  Joy outwits the Sky Pirates and escapes with the letters and delivers them to Santa’s workshop.  As a reward, Santa shares the secret of flight, and Joy soars triumphantly among the clouds for the first time.  On her return, she finds the workshop in chaos. The Sky Pirates have struck back, kidnapping the reindeer.  Joy’s despair turns to shock when she finds Blizz and the other penguins trudging toward her.

To save Christmas, Joy must teach Blizz and the other penguins to fly, lead Santa’s round the world flight and reconcile some disgruntled elves with their old boss.  Impossible tasks yes, but not for Joy, the Christmas Penguin, especially when she discovers…

… that being a little different can make all the difference in the world.

For more information about this show,

contact: Tim Tyler – Producer

306.229.2567 tim@cheshiresmile.com

http://www.cheshiresmile.com

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All Rights Reserved

 

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The Littlest Bridge Troll

It is the beginning of the 09-10 pitch season for broadcasters and I am excited to be pitching Cheshire Smile Animation’s latest preschool property The Littlest Bridge Troll to SCN in Saskatchewan today, and other preschool broadcasters (SCN, Treehouse, and Nickelodeon) at the 2009 Ottawa Television Animation Conference in October.

Billy The Littlest Bridge Troll

The Littlest Bridge Troll was originally conceived as a series called The Bridge City Trolls a variety style show with different trolls under different bridges. The idea lay dormant for a number of years until I had the great fortune of attending Little Airplane Academy last August in New York City. Quite simply this is the most in depth, honest view of what it takes to conceive, develop, produce and exploit a Great Pre-School Television Series.

This blog gets a lot of hits from people who are interested in learning how to pitch and create television series for children. I can tell you, that in all of my years attending conferences like KidScreen, Banff, MIP, and the Ottawa Television Animation Conference, there is no better crash course to be take that can give you a more complete view of the process than Little Airplane Academy. If you are hitting this page because you want to learn how to pitch and create a TV series for children – Go to this workshop – you will not regret it + you get to spend a killer weekend in NYC.

I came away from the experience inspired, and The Littlest Bridge Troll is the result. Check it out.

The Littlest Bridge Troll
Created By: Tim Tyler

Logline: The Littlest Bridge Troll is a 6 x 11 minute pre-school animated series starring Billy, a little boy bridge troll, who can’t help but get himself into trouble. It’s his troll nature! Through honesty, the advise of his troll elders, and the support of his best friends, 3 pigeons, he always
puts things right at the end.

Design Brief: The Littlest Bridge Troll mixes cut out friendly muppet monster style animation designs, with larger than life green screen live action characters, and digital sets that merge surreal perspective photographic bridge imagery with home and life elements such as bedrooms,
kitchens, studies, and back yards to create a distinct collage style reality that is clearly not of our world, but relatable to kids through it’s familiarity to their own lives.

Curriculum: Social Development – honesty, tolerance, and problem solving. Let’s face it everyone makes mistakes. It is important for children to learn that mistakes are a part of life and honesty, tolerance, and problem solving are the best way to deal with them.

Backstory (As told to the producer by Billy):

Hi, I am Billy. I am a little boy bridge troll.

I was born when they started building a new bridge over the Saskatchewan
river. My mom says when they finish it, I will be all grown up.

My 3 best friends are pigeons, Cagny, Scott and Thimm. They live under my
mom’s bridge too.

There are lot’s of Bridges in my city. Each one has it’s own Troll.

There is the University Bridge. It’s the bridge to the university and
Professor Thumpson is a very smart Troll. He is my teacher.

There is the Broadway Bridge. Fran lives under that Bridge. She loves music,
and people and lets me play her Bongos.

The Victoria Bridge is the oldest Bridge in Saskatoon. Mr. and Mrs BrassHorn
are two veerrry old trolls who live under it. They have lived there forever.
Once I was playing Troll Tag with Cagny, Scott and Tom, and broke a light.
Mr BrassHorn was very mad, but Mrs. BrassHorn said it would be OK and I
helped him fix it. I don’t think he likes little boy trolls.

The Freeway Bridge is where the highway crosses the river, Jet, who lives
under it is the fastest Troll I know. He never does anything slowly, he zips
and jumps from here to there, and talks really really fast. When I grow up
he is going to show me how to skateboard.

I live with my mom and dad under the Family Bridge. It’s the bridge that
families cross when they go to their homes at night after work and school.