Creator Niki Yang channels everything she’s picked up during her tenure on shows like Adventure Time, Clarence, and Regular Show as the show features a weird humor and a gorgeous art style that adults will enjoy probably more than kids. Wishing she was magical like everyone else, Yoytoki along with her friends Steak (Cole Sanchez), a living gummy bear and Hotwings (Andres Salaff), a flying pig embark on a quest to find the Magic Elf King (Dee Bradley Baker) to grant her wish. Everyone in Mytholopia has magical powers, except for Yoyotoki whose normal family ended up getting lost here. Parents might not like this show for its bizarre humor but I dig it.ĭirected by Sung Jin Ahn, “Yoyotoki HappyEars” is about fox (Jessica Lowe) who lives in the land called Mytholopia. The animation style is charming and the show has a very upbeat weirdness to its humor. In the pilot, the duo ride a soon to be demolished water slide in the center of the park and nothing goes according to plan. Philip (Eric Knobel) is an anthropomorphic egg who’s fragile nature makes him prone to panic and value safety but he wants to be as adventurous as Dee Dee. (Aidy Bryant) is a rambunctious girl who aspires to be like her daredevil dad so she performs extreme stunts. Written by Shadi Petosky and directed by Mike Owens (both of whom are also the producers and creators), Danger and Eggs is a charming 12 minute cartoon about two friends who’re on opposite extremes. In no particular order, here are my reviews: Instead of live action series for children, this year Amazon has ordered six animated pilots. Viewers can write reviews and give feedback on that pilots they’d like to see become series but no matter what, the Executives at Amazon will have the final word. Anyone can stream and vote on the pilots for free on Amazon’s website or video app but the inevitable shows will be exclusive for Amazon Prime members. Amazon’s Pilot Season program is back and once again, viewers decide on which of the twelve pilots become full fledged series. The traditional pilot season is super competitive and the survival odds for a pilot becoming a new series is extremely low due to analytics or executive preferences.īut with outlets like Netflix and Amazon who’re constantly looking for original content, there’s never been a better time for television auteur’s to roll the dice and take a chance on making a pilot. As I’ve gotten older and wiser on the nature of creating television, I’ve realized how expensive and time consuming it is to even make a pilot. Shows like The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, What Ever Happened to Robot Jones?, and Codenamed: Kids Next Door were all created from this experimental pilot program and for me, it felt good voting on the shows I’d want to see. Running during the summers of 20, The Big Pick was a 53 hour marathon of original programming that ran throughout the weekend where kids could vote via phone or computer on which of the ten animated pilots would become full fledged series. The description for Numberlys name-checks such black-and-white classics as King Kong and Metropolis, and while you can certainly see those influences in the sprawling cityscape fo the app, it’s also clear that Moonbot was able to create a striking world all of its own for this app.When I was 10 years old, I remember participating in a Cartoon Network programming stunt called “The Big Pick”. The story is set in a monochromatic universe dominated entirely by numbers, and it follows the adventures of five roly-poly creatures in their quest to introduce letters into their dull, gray world. Numberlys is Moonbot’s follow-up to Morris Lessmore, and like its predecessor, it offers up a very distinctive visual style. But more important, it’s just a really great story to get lost in for a while. It’s a breath-taking example of the new kind of story-telling that the iPad can foster. That philosophy is on display to perfection in The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. In interviews elsewhere, the brains behind Moonbot have said that they’re not really trying to do movies or books or games-rather, they’re creating apps that draw upon elements from all three categories. Growing Numbers: The Numberlys creates a visually distinct monochrome world dominated by numbers. Everything neatly fits in with the action, and it’s a terrific way to get drawn into the saga of Morris Lessmore, particularly for younger readers. You help Morris piece together fragments of a torn up page. A bowl of alphabet soup becomes a canvas for forming words. When a windstorm blows Morris out of his comfortable life, you can make houses fly off with a flick of your finger. Instead, the app comes loaded with interactive features that augment the storyline. But Moonbot went beyond merely repurposing the Morris Lessmore film.
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