Screen Arts - S2 Week 4



31/07/2019

This week: Mukpuddy and Weta Workshop

 Sparkle and Friends
I remember sparkle and friends on What Now. I especially remember watching the episode they did for What Now's 30th anniversary special, which included special guest appearances from Thingee and New Zealand broadcasting icon, Dougal Stevenson.

 CRUMB
It looks like the writers had a lot of fun creating an animated show with food-theme cops that rely on puns and generic cliches. The resoultion seems to be higher than Sparkle and Friends.

 Pocket Protectors
It pretty much Transformers for New Zealand childrens' TV and animation. Instead of moving vehicles, they are school stationary. We only watched one part, but I definitely would go back to it later and watch the rest.

 Mukpuddy is on Twitter and Facebook

 The Barefoot Bandits
It has a child target audience and uses vibrant colours like other such shows by Mukpuddy . It has a bit more Kiwi humor than the rest of the stuff we have watched from Mukpuddy. This show has a lot of great Kiwi voice talent; Rhys Darby, Tammy Davis, John-Rhys Davies, Temeura Morrison, Teulia Blakely, Jemaine Clement, Josh Thomson.

 Very smooth and high quality 2D animation. At one point, there is either a generic NZ dairy or NZ post office in the background, but it's hard to know for certain because of the depth of field focus.

 It's one of those shows I would had loved watching as a kid, even more so being set in New Zealand.
Pipa Ma
It was to provide Maori-speaking NZ children with Maori content and role models. It was responsible for launching Maori-speaking dolls for children.

 The Drawing Show
The aspect ratio of the promotional video looks like it was intended to be viewed on mobile devices and social media.

 Public Eye
It had a lot of political figures I could recognise from being a political nerd like Helen Clark, Mike Moore, Geoffrey Palmer, Roger Douglas, David Lange, Robert Muldoon, and Winston Peters.

 Gapoli
They photographed and digitally scanned actors who best represented WW1 characters. They then got #D printed, sculptured, and put into molds. The quality of the character they produced have a great level of photorealism.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/111572874/barefoot-bandits-creators-aiming-to-be-new-zealands-answer-to-nickelodeon

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