My hope is that it will be heartfelt, humorous, and sincere enough to bring laughter and tears to the audience.” The Dam Keeper (Graphic Novels)
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“This 10-episode TV series focuses on Pig’s emotional journey to overcome his fear and emptiness through his friendship with Fox and their friends. “I’m very grateful for this opportunity to introduce The Dam Keeper world and characters to a different storytelling platform,” Oh said.
The show will also be a hand-drawn project, animated in a way that will highlight Oh’s line work and watercolor aesthetics. Tsutsumi revealed the the series would be a self-contained story, following the same core theme as other Dam Keeper projects: balancing light and dark aspects within one’s self. “There’s nobody else that we trust more than Erick, and we would not have done this project if he hadn’t signed up for it.” “We felt like Erick would protect this franchise, and yet he would bring a different kind of a flavor to it,” Tsutsumi said. When early discussions shifted from a half-hour special to a short-form series, Kondo and Tsutsumi personally handpicked Erick Oh for directing duties. “I have to tip my hat to Hulu Japan for really trusting and wanting to work with us going with a well established franchise,” Dice Tsutsumi told Cartoon Brew. Even though the show will air in Japan, production will commence in-house at Tonko’s Berkeley, California headquarters.Īccording to the report, an executive at Hulu Japan approached Tonko House with the idea of doing an original project set in the Dam Keeper world. It is not known at this time if the episodes will air overseas on Hulu’s US service.Įrick Oh, who served as animation supervisor on the original short, will direct all 10 episodes of the series (with Kondo and Tsutsumi as executive producers). Comprised of 10 five-minute episodes, the series will premiere on the streaming service in Summer of 2017. Broken exclusively by Cartoon Brew, Tonko House is also partnering with Hulu Japan to produce a TV series based on the short film.
With Tonko House’s cultural roots being in Japan, it’s possible that we may be able to bridge both East and West to bring out the best of both animation traditions.” “We’re hungry to stand out in the crowded CG animation market and believe we can achieve something new. “We are thrilled to return to making CG-animated feature films, having worked for over a decade at studios like Pixar and Blue Sky,” said Kondo and Tsutsumi. “We are thrilled to be in business with Tonko House and honored to help develop their groundbreaking short into a feature,” said Fox Animation president Vanessa Morrison in a press release statement. Kane Lee, who came up through the ranks as producer’s assistant on Robots, production scheduler on Ice Age: The Meltdown, and associate production manager on Horton Hears a Who, will produce the film. Further animation tests are already underway and, as previously reported, the film will pick up several years after the events of the 2D-animated short.įox Animation executive Darlene Caamaño Loquet shepherded the project and is overseeing for the studios. Unlike the short film, the feature film will have dialogue and will be animated primarily in CG (as seen in images taken from an early test reel). Kondo and Tsutsumi will direct from a screenplay by up-and-comer John Henry Hinkel. News broke this week that 20 th Century Fox Animation will team up with Tonko House to develop the feature film. Now, it appears that they’ve finally locked down a studio partner. The last that anybody heard of Tonko House’s feature-length film adaptation of The Dam Keeper was that a presentation was being sent around to executives at major Hollywood studios.
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