The Team
The kernel of the idea for Tiny Planets was written by Casey Dobie and then developed out by a small in-house team including Richard Davis and Antony Hatfield and led by Andy Park (former commissioning editor at the BBC and Channel 4). Ed Taylor produced the first designs for Bing and Bong. Richard Morss then took on the project as in-house producer.
The project caught the eye of Julian Scott and the late Nina Elias-Bamberger at Sesame Workshop. The resulting project, produced by Richard Morss and directed by Alistair Mcilwain, took 20 months to produce in co-production with Sesame Workshop. All production took place in the company’s studios in the UK.
Tiny Planets is privately held by My Tiny Planets Ltd. The original concept was conceived in 1998. The television series was produced from 1999 until 2001 in a co-production with Sesame Workshop. It has been honored with multiple awards including three BAFTA Awards for entertainment website and for interactive. In addition it was nominated for two additional BAFTAs for preschool animation and online learning. The show was also the first television show to be endorsed by Montessori Centre International.
The production was ambitious from the outset being the first television series to feature high quality computer graphics including Bing & Bong’s CGI generated fur. Carl Goodman, technical art director at the time, specified the techniques and full equipment specification to use and also produced the www.tinyplanets.com website with a small dedicated team.
Today Carl continues to work with Bing & Bong as Creative Director alongside, among others, Managing Director, Paul Michael as well as Founder of the Learning Company, Ann McCormick, Interface Designer, Interface Designer, Ann Lasko-Harvill, Community Manager, Cheryl Khalid-Henderson and Florida-based Online Games Developer, ZeeGee Games.
It is rumored that Tiny Planets will appear on Mini CITV in April 2012.
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