Series and Interstitials
Jelly, Ben & Pogo is a popular series of shorts we created and produced for PBS Kids. With its Quirky humor and wholesome stories, the show engages kids use of Design Thinking to help friends. Joe Kubesheski co-directed with show creator Jalysa Leva and oversaw all production.
Jelly, Ben and Pogo
We created a YouTube shorts series for PBS Kids featuring a variety of seven remixed nursery rhymes. They feature a few new characters but also Dot, Del, and Dee who we helped refine as we rebranded PBS Kids over the years. These were created at our old studio Primal Screen.
PBS Kids Nursery Rhymes
Book Drop is a series of 10-13 minute episodes inviting kids to enjoy story time and STEM for Twin Cities PBS & Marobru Productions. Each episode is a mix of live action and animated story segments following the adventures of Kitty and Leo, as they deliver books all over the world and beyond for story time. While at Primal Screen we created all the animated segments including storyboarding, design, animation and composite.
Book Drop
During our time at Primal Screen, we created three minutes of animated sequences for each of five episodes of the final season of the series "SciGirls" for Twin Cities PBS. The curriculum heavy stories followed the adventures of Izzie and Jake, and explored STEM-themed topics.
SciGirls Montage
Nick: Portal Chase
We collaborated with Nickelodeon to make an animated short linking favorite characters as they travel through the universes of classic video games. With 14 million YouTube views, and rabid fans studying each frame for easter eggs, Nick made the inevitable decision to produce a sequel. Then a threequel!
Nick Jr Digital Shorts
In partnership with Nick Jr. we filmed and animated kid testimonials of their favorite Nick Jr. characters. This was part of multiple kids shorts we created for Nick Jr.
El Perro y El Gato
Two best friends navigate a bewildering world, with a bit of Spanish and English. Perro is a fun-loving, excitable chihuahua who’s always looking for an adventure. Gato is a sluggish cat of few words who grudgingly joins Perro in hope of finding lunch. Created by Chrissie Hines and Primal Screen, the HBO series follows the pair through fun, musical stories, big and small—from traveling cross country by train to brushing teeth.
Laser Awesome Montage
Laser Awesome was the branding for Nicktoons Network's Action Block. It consisted various "mini-sode" dressed up as packaging. Each adventure followed this daredevil hot dog fighting a spy network of racoons.
Barcode Brothers was a pilot created for Nickelodeon. Two experimental cardboard robots on the run from the government agency that built, and then accidentally, threw them away. Now they are hiding out in a suburban garage with too much time on their claws. The brothers use a green screen to project themselves into heroic and adventurous situations and post them on the web. The pilot tested well but was not utimatley green lit.
Bar Code Brothers
SYFY: Omni Cat
Omni, The All Knowing, All Seeing Celestial Cat is a series of animated shorts created for SYFY’s TZGZ block. Seven short films, each with a unique color palette, depict stylized humans adopting cat-like mannerisms, courtesy of Omni Cat's celestial influence.
Nick Portal Chase
Pilot Episode of Bardcode Brothers for Nick.com Short and Funny series.
SYFY: Omni Cat
Omni, The All Knowing, All Seeing Celestial Cat is a series of animated shorts created for SYFY’s TZGZ block. Seven short films, each with a unique color palette, depict stylized humans adopting cat-like mannerisms, courtesy of Omni Cat's celestial influence.
Nick Jr: Bubble Guppies, Get Ready!
We created an original video for the Bubble Guppies song "Get Ready". The song sung by Molly is about the experience of the 1st day of school. We set up a kids live action shoot, then integrated original animation of the Bubble Guppies singing the hit song.
Nick Jr: Bubble Guppies Pencil Case
In this Back to School music mash-up we created a stylized music video of a glammed-up Molly and Bubble Guppies cast singing "Pencil Case". We designed and animated all the Bubble Guppies and backgrounds.