Nickelodeon’s hit kids show Dora the Explorer has a whole new
dimension to experience thanks to Calabash Animation, the award-winning
Chicago-based studio led by Wayne Brejcha and Sean Henry. Calabash
partnered with Nick to create the show’s new minute-long opening.
Working with character animation created by Nickelodeon’s L.A. animation
studio, Calabash imbued all the elements of Dora’s world with new CG
life; including environments, lighting, shadows, textures and the
cinematic camera moves that sweep viewers through the show’s universe in
the open.
"Nickelodeon was looking to take the show open a step further
cinematically and make it more engaging,” Henry says. “They gave us a
framework of what they wanted, but allowed us the creative freedom to
explore in a fun way.”
Blending the 2D Dora, Boots the Monkey, Swiper, Diego, the Pirate Pigs
and all the other cartoon pals with the new 3D backgrounds was no easy
feat, as animation director Jessica Plummer shared:
“Getting the backgrounds to look just right with Dora and the other
characters, while still creating very dynamic scenes, took quite a bit
of back and forth and brainstorming. But in the end all those revisions
and planning really paid off.”
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