The Phew!! Credits

  • Phibber the Lying Toad
    A fun costume character and a huge hit with the kids! Phibber was created for the Unique Group, initially featured in a theme park, then developed for TV use in Noel's House Party (BBC1, UK).
  • Emlyn the Gremlyn
    Phew!! won a competitive pitch for BBC Worldwide together with CBBC Presentations. We designed a new puppet character to replace Otis the Aardvark as the main live link character daily on CBBC. He was on air 1999-2001. Emlyn also featured in the CBBC Annual and as licensed merchandise.
  • Tiny Time
    We created, wrote and illustrated a delightful and varied series of 24x5' stories in the ‘Jackanory’ style for Carlton Television’s first digital children's channel.
  • BBC Look and Read
    We created The Spellits for this classic BBC Education series. We designed, and wrote 30' of animation for a schools audience of 7-9 year-olds.
  • Robots v Monsters
    Another original Phew!! creation. We sold a development option on this animated series to Stardust Entertainment of Hamburg. We designed, wrote and illustrated the sales brochure, produced a 4' CGI animated trailer, wrote 2x22' scripts and a full feature script. The project is still seeking funding through Stardust.
  • Food Chain
    This animated series was sold to Warner Bros Animation for initial development and production within their Cartoon Monsoon series. WB recognised the potential for fun with the first mammal trying to survive the last of the dinosaurs.
  • BBC Spelling with the Spellits
    Much the same way as the Simpsons grew into their own show, so the Spellits became the stars of the following year's BBC Education series. We produced and delivered 62' of Flash animation.
  • Treasure Hunt
    Working in a very individual setting of a theme park in a reclaimed coal mine in the Welsh valleys, we designed an outdoor adventure trail game for the Unique Group.
  • BBC Primary Genie Website
    Using a whole bunch of new characters designed and coloured to work in Flash, we created, designed and wrote a series of successful sketches, interactive games and songs for the BBC’s numeracy learning site.
  • BBC Starship
    Another BBC maths series. We created, wrote and produced 4x6' of animation featuring another new character - Captain Calamity. He combined entertainment with education as he rushed around on his surreal quests.
  • BBC Numbertime
    A BBC Maths Education Series. We created, designed and wrote 10x4' live action comedy sketches. The learning objective was to teach coin recognition and usage, so of course we set the series in a shop within an alien spaceship.
  • Story Circus
    We wrote and illustrated several stories for this popular website designed for parents to read to their children at bedtime.
  • BBC Addem and the Ants
    Following the success of our first series, we were commissioned by the BBC to create a new character-based animation for the next season of Numbertime. Addem is a young adder who discovers the world of the ants, in particular an efficient and friendly young ant called Ann, complete with her personal organiser. We successfully combined character development, plot, comedy and plenty of maths into the 10x2-minute animations.
  • Publishing
    Phew!! have also worked in publishing: designing and writing Annuals, comics, strip cartoons, etc. We have also created a number of publishing concepts, as well as pure design concepts for merchandising and brand licensing opportunities Including Planet Plop! and Party Animals.
  • The Three Lions
    We were asked to bring life to the emblem on the England national cricket team’s shirt. Phew!! developed 'The Pride Side' characters, wrote and produced a 5' launch animation and wrote the web story introducing the characters to the audience of teenagers. It was a non-broadcast job for the English Cricket Board through the Interfocus Agency.
  • Development
    Phew!! has also done numerous jobs for third parties, script development, book adaptation, new show design and development, writing and designing sales bibles, style guides, writing pilot scripts, etc.
 
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