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January 25, 2010
Season two of The Electric Company begins airing today. This is the spot we directed and animated for the new season. We're big fans of Conan O’Brien, and with all the hoopla about him lately, we thought it might be fun to show how he influenced this spot.
November 5, 2009
On our way to FilmColumbia last month, we got a call telling us that "Q&A" had won the Documentary Short Award at the Austin Film Festival. It was an honor to win the jury’s vote over several live action competitors.
As Pixar’s Brad Bird points out, animation is not a genre. It’s a medium. Documentary, Comedy, Drama, Western, and so on— those are genres! Many in the animation industry wish to see animation compete on equal footing with live action fare. Some people argue that there shouldn’t be an animation category at the Oscars at all. They are concerned that such a distinction ghettoizes animation. Our win in Austin is an encouraging sign that audiences are getting closer every year to accepting Animation as an equal member of the film world, not a second class citizen.
October 2, 2009
This summer, we completed work on a spot for Sesame Workshop, which will air later this fall on The Electric Company. The spot, titled "The Blob Who Likes to Blab", teaches the short "a" and "o" sounds and features a genial, but obnoxiously gabby blue glob whose jabbering is terrorizing the citizens of his metropolis.
The objective of The Electric Company, which is the number one program in its block on PBS KIDS GO!, is to fight the literacy crisis among American second graders and reduce the gap between low- and middle-income families by spreading the word that "reading is cool". Avid readers as children, we were thrilled to contribute to their programming. It was a fantastic opportunity to fulfill a couple of our core objectives as a studio— creating memorable characters to tell stories that entertain and enrich audiences.
