In a minimalist world, five small animals with colourful personalities live enchanting adventures, learning the simple values of sharing, empathy and trust.
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).
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.
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: 52 x 5 mins
Status: IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis :
Have you ever used a cloud as a seat or played a game with your shadow? Welcome to the natural world of the Nitwits, where five animal friends have their imaginations sparked by one simple thing. Then through play and teamwork, they bring their very different ideas together to create one playful adventure! Nitwits is a brand new 3D animated series for a 4 to 6 year old preschool audience. Through whimsical comedy, music and traditional play values, each 5-Minute episode inspires imagination and shows how differences can actually bring us together!
