Nelvana Enterprises have signed a new broadcast deal with the BBC for its animated series, Sidekick. The series is scheduled to air on the UK public broadcaster’s kids’ channel,
March 27th, 2014
Nelvana Enterprises have signed a new broadcast deal with the BBC for its animated series, Sidekick. The series is scheduled to air on the UK public broadcaster’s kids’ channel, CBBC from summer this year 2014. The Sidekick is produced by Toronto based Nelvana, with Todd Kauffman as the creator and executive producer of the animated series. The studio boasts a roster of renowned award winning brands including comedies, boy’s action and pre-school title series. The Sidekick is a Canadian animated TV series created by Todd Kauffman and Joey So.
The series is about an orphan boy named Eric, with his best friend Trevor and his two female friends, Vana and Kitty, who is training to become sidekicks at the Academy for Aspiring Sidekicks. When dealing with intense sidekick training, Eric must contend with the disappearance of his superhero mentor, Maxum Man, and keep it a secret from the town of Splitsboro, his strict guardian Maxum Brain, grumpy teacher, Professor Pamplemoose and the evil Master Xox.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
