I thought I would take a break from work to tell you about Kerwhizz! The CGI quiz blue-zoo have been working on for the BBC since the start of the year is finally on air! Vegetable Valley Alley was on BBC1 at 3.05 this Monday and will be shown again at various times on both BBC and CBeebies along with a new episode each week.

They also have a webpage dedicated to it where you can play the quiz and race some pods, and check out the intro animation I did for the show titles!




I have to say, it is looking great and is such a nice show. I hope it entertains and educates some kids! :P

Right, better get back to animating it!

Well... a good 13 months since I last visited these parts! Mind you it is pretty pointless having a blog if a) no one is reading it and b) you really have nothing to say. But hey, I am hoping that will change!

So what's happened in the last 13 months? Well, the 6 month blue-zoo contract turned into a full-time one. So now I don't even have to worry about ANY contract ending. I have a job until they sack me! Although I am trying to avoid that...

We have been working on lots of exciting things... Stitch Up Showdown being the one I was looking forward to the most! I got to be Animation Director on it and really push the stop-framey, snappy style of it. Of course as with all productions, when it finally started we were working to a very tight schedule, but I am really pleased with the way it turned out and everyone who worked on it did a brilliant job. It should be on Nickelodeon soon....

I was also lucky enough to write one of the episodes. It featured this cute little character 'Enzo' and it was a personality driven piece with no dialogue. I also got to animate it too.



Blue-zoo have just begun working on a new BBC HD TV series called 'Kerwhizz' which I have been supervising some of the animation on. It is visually stunning and you won't see anything like it on children's tv when it airs in March! It is 26 x 20" episodes, so blue-zoo has quadrupled in size over the last few months, and we have almost out-grown the new office we moved to back in October. I don't think we will be moving again soon though, last time was pretty painful ;)

I am also writing an episode of Kerwhizz! It was a bit of a leap from a 30 second cartoon gag to a 20 minute BBC TV show, but it's all going ok so far!

Well, that's about it for now. I have more news but I will save that for another day...