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Cartoon Broadcast System (CBS)

Cut up to 95% off animation budgets and schedules using FlickerLab’s animation production system

Imagine producing a half-hour animated show in just half-an-hour! It’s possible only with FlickerLab’s revolutionary Cartoon Broadcast System. Animate once and leverage the same assets across all of your broadcast, web, e-book, game and app projects for budgets as low as $200 per minute of animation.

Think of the Cartoon Broadcast System as broadcast-ready digital puppet theater. Elements (backgrounds, characters, effects) are placed into a scene, the character’s lip sync is generated on the fly by live voice talent or pre-recorded voice tracks, and the characters are brought to fully-animated life before your eyes via an easy to use control pad. The system outputs full resolution finished animation ready for broadcast, tape or digital video files.

The Cartoon Broadcast System has been used to produce thousands of hours of broadcast animation for leading global networks, including CBBC (Britain), Nickelodeon (Scandinavia), Fox Kids (Israel), ZDF (Germany) and Teletoons (France).

The system has been used to create a wide array of content including:

  • Cartoons
  • Daily animated talk shows
  • Interactive television experiences
  • Live animated appearances
  • Animated assets for in-game content, virtual worlds and other interactive environments

System licenses include all software and hardware.

Curious how you can use CBS in your productions? Give us a call and we’ll show you how it’s done.

Case Study
CBS Case Study: BBC’s The Nelly Nut show

When Children’s BBC was looking for an on-air game, they came to us and ended up with a whole lot more—a fully animated daily kids talk show featuring call-in games and on-air cartoon characters that kids could talk with. FlickerLab brought Nelly to uproarious life in The Nelly Nut Show, producing an original half-hour animated show five days a week for two years, outperforming the rest of the block by 50% in ratings.

 

BBC : THE NELLY NUT SHOW

THE NELLY NUT SHOW

LICENSED TO INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS • Children’s BBC, TV2, Teletoon FRANCE, ZDF, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

FlickerLab designed, developed and produced the animated talk show The Nelly Nut Show for Children’s BBC (CBBC), using FlickerLab’s revolutionary Cartoon Broadcast System. An original animated half-hour was produced 5 days a week for three years, including live call-in interaction with the audience, live games, and ten minutes of live animation. Nelly Nut became the most popular CBBC show. It was licensed to Danish TV2 as an interactive game show, as well as to Teletoon France, ZDF, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Second German Television), and a range of other international broadcasters.

MOLE & VOLE

MOLE & VOLE

By The Whistle

THE MOLE & VOLE SHOW is a hybrid animation/crowd-sourced TV and web series. Found shorts from YouTube and other user-generated video sites are fused together via animated segments featuring MOLE and VOLE, two rodents living in an underground burrow filled with stockpiles of sports-themed videos. United by their passion for sports, at the core Mole and Vole are “best fans and best friends”—the ultimate sports hosting duo. The Mole & Vole Show, powered by the Cartoon Broadcast System, will premiere on TheWhistle.com this fall.

CAFE CENTRAL

CAFE CENTRAL

FlickerLab’s Cartoon Broadcast System has been serving up fresh animation daily for the 11-minute animated show “Cafe Central,” which recently premiered on Portuguese RTP2.

Cafe Central is developed and produced by HOP Televisao in Porto, Portugal and is made possible by FlickerLab’s revolutionary Cartoon Broadcast System. A new daily episode is created from scratch each morning and airs that same evening. The production time per 11-minute episode is only 5 hours, from voice record to the final animation.

SVEN AND BAT

SVEN AND BAT

For Scandinavian Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon UK

FlickerLab produced, using the Cartoon Broadcast System, the animated interstitial series Sven and Bat, for Scandinavian Nickelodeon. The production contained 900 components used as interstitials and network packaging elements. FlickerLab also built a companion Sven and Bat website, featuring a wide range of Flash games.

Breakfast With Stefani

BREAKFAST WITH STEFFI

A daily 5-minute topical animated series for German Broadcaster NDR.

German HD Entertainment used the Cartoon Broadcast System to translate a popular morning radio sketch into a daily 5-minute animated comedy program, “Breakfast with Steffi.” Each day’s show was created using the audio from that morning’s radio broadcast, bringing topical jokes on current events to air on North Germany’s biggest network the same evening, for a total of 1,110 minutes of animation in the first year.