Jibber Jabber (TV series)

Jibber Jabber
Genre Animated television series
Created by David Bowes
Directed by David Bowes
Composer(s) Michael Richard Plowman
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 26
Production
Producer(s) Jim Corbett
Running time 11 minutes
Production company(s) Northwest Imaging and FX
Jibber Jabber Toons Ltd.
Distributor Bejuba Entertainment
Broadcast
Original channel YTV
Picture format 16:9
Original airing September 2007
External links
Website

Jibber Jabber is a Canadian children's television series about twin brothers, Jibber and Jabber, who like to imagine things.

Production

Jibber Jabber is computer animated by Northwest Imaging and FX (NWFX), a visual effects and animation company based in Vancouver), in association with Jibber Jabber Toons Ltd. for YTV. The series was the inaugural project for NWFX's animation division, and the company hired 25 full-time animators and added 17 Autodesk Maya 3D workstations specifically for the series. Although the entire series is computer-animated, it is rendered to resemble traditional stop-motion animation.[1]

Characters

Imaginary Adventure's Types

Broadcast details

The series was produced as 26 segments of about 11 minutes each, which are generally broadcast as 13 half-hour episodes.[1]

The series debuted on YTV in September 2007. The series has also been sold to KI.KA (Germany), Disney XD (Latin America), TRT (Turkey), E-Junior and Al Jazeera Children's Channel (Middle East), RTP (Portugal), Arutz HaYeladim (Israel), BBC Alba (Scotland) and ABC (Australia).[2]

Awards

In 2008, Jibber Jabber won four out of the five Leo Awards it was nominated for: Best Animation Program or Series; Best Overall Sound; Best Musical Score and Best Screenwriting. In 2009, the Production won a Pulcinella Award at Cartoons on the Bay, Italy for: Best Animated Character[3][4] Jibber jabber is also played on an Australian TV channel called ABC3

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bracken, Laura: Northwest Imaging & FX gets animated, Playback, October 16, 2006.
  2. Moody, Annemarie: Jibber Jabber Out To Imagine More Territories, Animation World Network, October 9, 2008.
  3. Moody, Annemarie: 2008 Leo Awards Honor Animated Jibber Jabber, Animation World Network, May 27, 2008.
  4. Cartoons on the Bay: Special Awards 2009

External links