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| YTV breathes fire with Jane and the Dragon |
| Posted
on Monday, November 14, 2005 - 11:26 AM |
YTV gets fired up, and wired up, with the addition of Jane and the Dragon to its lineup and its website. This 3-D animated comedy-adventure, which showcases a modern role model living in medieval times, makes its Canadian television premiere Sunday, January 8 at 11 a.m. Viewers can count down to the premiere with a sneak peek on www.YTV.com from December 6 to 31.
For the first time, YTV brings state of the art broadcast technology to the web, streaming an episode of Jane and the Dragon in widescreen format. For the month of December, kids can surf to www.YTV.com to view The Offer, which YTV previewed in October as part of its Medieval Week stunt event.
"Jane and the Dragon is a highly imaginative and visually sophisticated series, and we're thrilled to be adding it to our Sunday morning lineup," said Phil Piazza, Vice President, Programming, Corus Children's Television. "Jane, a positive role model who fights for what is right in every episode, is sure to be embraced by the YTV audience, and have widespread appeal."
Produced by Weta Productions in New Zealand and Toronto's Nelvana Limited in association with YTV, Jane and the Dragon is the coming-of-age story of 12-year-old Jane, a headstrong knight-in-training--who, unlike most girls of her time--has a suit of armour in her closet, a sword in her belt and an unforgettable and unpredictably endearing 300-year-old dragon by her side.
Accompanying Jane and her best pal Dragon on their daily misadventures are a close-knit circle of friends including: 14-year-old Jester, whose self-deprecating humour gets him into extraordinary situations; and 12-year-old Pepper, a kitchen maid so tied to her work that she rarely gets outside and is pale beyond description.
Weta is best known for its artistic accomplishments on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and its current slate of projects includes feature films King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Jane and the Dragon is Weta's first kids production and television endeavour.
Combining the cinematic quality of feature-film animation with a storybook sketch aesthetic, Jane and the Dragon is produced using a combination of animation techniques, including key-frame, puppeteering and motion-capture technology, a process in which live actors' movements are captured on computer and then used to make the animated characters' movements more realistic. This is the same innovative technology that the Weta team used to develop the Lord of the Rings 3-D character Gollum.
"We were thrilled when the team at Weta selected Nelvana as its co-production partner on its first venture into animation for kids," said Scott Dyer, Nelvana's Executive VP of Production and Development. "Combining Weta's Oscar(R) Award-winning creative strengths and motion capture expertise with the talents of Nelvana's Emmy(R) Award-winning 3-D studio has resulted in a unique show that is like nothing else the kids television industry has ever seen. We look forward to the show's debut on YTV."
In the premiere episode, airing Sunday, January 8 at 11 a.m. ET/PT, Jane begins her knight apprenticeship and takes on a 'rescue the damsel' challenge. Jane must stop the Prince from raiding the kitchens and making her pal Pepper's life impossible. If she fails, she must work in the kitchens herself. This is what the Prince wants and is determined to get.
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