I worked on Season 2 of the popular children’s television series, Pinky Dinky Doo. This season of the show was produced at Keyframe Digital Productions in association with Sesame Workshop and Cartoon Pizza.
I worked as lead technical director from September, 2007 to September, 2008 on the production. The goal of the show was to achieve a 2D, Flash-cartoon inspired look, inside of a 3D world. This seems simple in concept, but sure enough it was much more complex than initially anticipated. The production presented many unique problems that required a lot of creative thinking to solve.
Here are some of my other responsibilities from the production.
- Creating character rigs and techniques used throughout the production.
- Creating pipeline tools to enhance productivity levels of animators, background artists, and myself.
- Creating and maintaining folder structures for the entire production.
- Implementing an email and inner-office chat system and a tracking system for shots and assets.
- Reading upcoming episode scripts to prepare the studio for future challenges.
- Nightly backups of the entire production drive.
Pinky Dinky Doo Season 2 airs on the N O G G I N network.
Paul Neale has put together a full technical write-up on the project. Visit his site to find out more about this production.
