Lucas Zanotto comes from a product and graphic design background. He slowly grew more and more interest in directing and started focusing on motion graphics. His work has been awarded in different international festivals. He loves mixing different medias and exploring new ways of creating animations. The way he combines classic animation and digital media, gives his films a very modern and analogue feel.
Sam Morrison
Screenwriter
Sam is a screenwriter and script-editor with numerous credits across a wide variety of content from children’s TV shows to VR experiences, commercials and theatre. An animator and director for 20 years, he has worked with various production companies and broadcasters from Peppa Pig to Shaun the Sheep, recently head-writing Blue Zoo’s Big Tree City for Netflix, co-writing the Oscar-nominated Robin Robin (Aardman) and Magda Osinska’s I Am Your Mother for Star Wars Visions (Aardman).
Lullatone
Music & sound design
Lullatone is a Japan-based band and sound design group composed of Shawn James Seymour with occasional help from his wife, Yoshimi. Well-known in creative circles for their innovative use of hands-on techniques, many of their experiments in the studio mimic the approach of the Nitwits journey to discovery in this series.
James Hagger
Producer
James Hagger is the founder and producer of ELIOTNESS. In the last 14 years James has produced over a hundred live action and animated films, from fictions to documentaries, to short films and commercials.
Jean Méranger-Galtier
Producer
Robin Noël
Producer
Robin began his career in feature films alongside Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache for the company Quad Films, assisting them on internationally acclaimed films. He joined ELIOTNESS in 2020, sharing founder James Hagger's ambition to develop and carry ambitious long format projects, blurring the imposed boundaries of genre and technique.
INFORMATION
Catégorie: ANIMATED SERIES
Format: 20 x 11 mins thematic blocks (4x 3 mins)
Status: IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis :
Duck, Elephant, Sheep, Pig and Tortoise are the NITWITS, and they live in a cross between a playground and a laboratory. In each episode, our deranged, dense, and fortunately indestructible heroes encounter an object foreign to them – but recognisable to us. Through their dynamic, determined and frankly demented play, they discover the physical limits of the objects they’re presented with.
They put everything they find through its paces: roll it, spin it, flatten it, bounce it, bend it, throw it! In three loud, physical, hilarious minutes, from a simple beginning such as being given a ball, our heroes escalate things to the ultimate degree. Thus putting these objects – and themselves – to the test. But they don’t think of themselves as testers though, and nor do they see what they’re doing as an experiment: they’re just having fun!
Despairing at their actions is the gentle-voiced Narrator, forever destined to bemused befuddlement at how they can get everything so amazingly wrong.The gentle-voiced Narrator can interact directly with the animals, but doesn’t explain what the objects are. Sometimes they even listen to what he has to say! But mostly they get excited, go off-piste, make mistakes, and cause havoc. These accidental experiments are the heart of the show, and the ensuing mayhem is the fun, with total chaos the inevitable outcome.
