PB & J Animation Series

Working for a holiday club, I was commissioned to animate a five-part miniseries using LittleBigPlanet 3 that would provide humorous video content that was in line with the themes and lessons of each day at the club. The challenge was to write a script for a comedy series that contained those parallels in their morals while still being entertaining for children of Primary School age.

I first created small outlines of episode events and then fleshed them out into full scripts. I got approval from the guys running the club, who played both characters, and we sat down together for a recording session. All audio for all five episodes was recorded in about two hours, following my direction. Most of it was successful, except for some corruption of a few of Pete’s lines in Episode 5, but a backup microphone was on-hand to preserve the recording in those instances.

I’d demonstrated a proof of concept for PB&J prior to starting production, with some natural changes and improvements taking place along the way. I also used the music tools of LittleBigPlanet 3 to compose a jingle that would play at the beginning of every episode. Following having all assets ready, I had the first three episodes animated, recorded and edited in one week, with the remaining two episodes (which each contained a more complex variety of shots), completed within the following few days.

The series was met with a lot of positivity. The kids at the club really enjoyed the slapstick comedy and the club hosts were able to draw moral messaging from each episode in step with their theme. People young and old were excited for each new episode over the course of the week and I still sometimes get asked if there will be more episodes. At the current time of writing this, a Christmas special has recently been completed and will be uploaded soon.

The full series can be watched on my YouTube channel here: