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Tucky Tales
by amid
June 22, 2009 9:52 am


Tucky Tales is a simple but inventive example of digital “cut-out” animation. The pre-school series for Baby TV was created by Israeli husband-and-wife animation team Eduard and Nurit Mitgartz. They’ve produced twenty 5-minute episodes at their studio Kipod Animation.

06/22/09  11:12am
emily says:

The continuous bird baby talk makes me giggle. I liked when he tried to be like the rain cloud by peeing. Neat stuff.

06/22/09  11:18am
Killroy McFate says:

I liked this a lot. At the risk of flaunting my ignorance, how was this made? Anyone?

06/22/09  11:36am
Angry Anim says:

Very charming and really well done! Has way more charm and appeal than most of our preschool shows… ie “Special Agent Oso” or “Dora”. You can still make a preschool show entertaining without having to talk down to kids. Very cool.

06/22/09  11:49am

This does nothing for me. And Baby TV and a bird taking a piss just doesn’t quite go hand in hand. But then on Baby TV, it probably looks pretty damn amazing because that is home to some of the worst animation atrocities I have ever seen. This is certainly nice by comparison.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there are hard-working creative folk on these and I imagine the pay and deadlines don’t really add up but quality control and content control aren’t a priority on that channel - one episode of a show called Danny and Daddy had Danny draw a pic of his dad bent over mooning, looking back like some sort of demented porn star. Last I saw, they weren’t running that any more.

Funny for adults? Perhaps to some. Somewhere.

Some of their shows do show some good intentions and the odd nice idea though. But I imagine budget is a major limiting factor.

06/22/09  1:40pm
Eduard Mitgartz says:

Hi Amid, thanks for posting this.

Killroy MacFate,
This is Flash, we just use scanned papers as textures instead of vector colors.

06/22/09  2:25pm

Nice, but those eyes were giving me ‘Bathtime in Clerkenwell’ flashbacks even before the dialogue started.

06/22/09  3:00pm
Ron says:

Does this studio have a website?

06/22/09  7:32pm
DC says:

This is actually very cute and fun! Well Done :)

06/22/09  8:05pm
Artisticulated says:

Overall I like it, but it is a bit strange to see squash and stretch on shapes that are supposed to represent paper cut-outs.

06/22/09  10:59pm
Eduard Mitgartz says:

Thanks for all your comments.

Ron,
We don’t have a website at the moment, there are more works on our Vimeo page:
http://vimeo.com/user1897224

More stuff is on the way, we are busy with some new projects right now.

Artisticulated,
We had some doubt about squash and stretch, and finally decided to use it mostly on the body but not on the head.

06/26/09  9:57pm
Ariel says:

Eduard, congratulations, well done!

I’m a big fan of cut out animation and i’m sure this will be a hit with it’s age group.

*To the folks who “dont’ get it” or “isn’t their cut of tea”, it doesn’t really matter cause it’s not for adults, it’s for kids. There’s a difference.

Best of luck Eduard, the tectures make this look really stylish and childrens book-ish. Best of luck with future shorts! And please let me know when you have more up, i’d like to see them.

06/26/09  10:01pm
Ariel says:

Nice work Eduard! Beautiful stuff.

Interesting to hear you worked with Flash(*vector program) I would have thought maybe after effects.

I work in flash, and whenever i do a cut out animation, it chugs my pc like crazy. Now i’m learning AE ;)

Best of luck with future shorts! I’d love to see them.

06/27/09  12:00am
Scott G says:

How do you move the textures with the character?
Do you have to move the gradient as well as the shape?

07/5/09  10:34am
sian says:

can i get a dvd of tucky tales as my little one loves it.
thanks
sian

11/27/09  7:21am
Angela says:

Can you advise whether tucky tales can be sourced on DVD?

Thanks

01/2/10  5:46am
Sharon says:

i would also love to get a dvd of this. My little one loves it and 5 mins a few times a day isnt enough!!

Thanks

01/8/10  3:33am
nadeedi says:

i would like to watch other episodes beside this ELEPHANT one.
Can anyone help me find more episodes of Tucky Tales as my kids love it very much.

Thanks

01/14/10  2:39am
dave says:

my boy loves tucky tales on baby tv, where can i buy it on dvd?

02/3/10  5:00am
Samantha says:

My 5 month old baby stops in his tracks when this comes on. My husband and I love it, we think it is hilarious!

Very clever………………..

02/6/10  9:54pm
Siuki says:

My little one loves Tucky Tales, where can I get the dvd? thanks.

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