Leo gets a surprise visit from his underground neighbor, Shredder shows off his condiment flinging TV, Mikey role-plays as his computer-lovin’ brother, Rat King opens up and gets dramatic, Bebop and Rocksteady sing us another forgettable show tune, and Casey creeps out the gang in April’s hot yellow convertible! TMNT: Team Up! is developed, written, directed, produced and animated by Gary Doodles and Tommy Sica (Breadwinners). Catch more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Nickelodeon!:
In a Turtley Awesome interview with Decider, Titmouse, Inc. founder Chris Prynoski talks about Nickelodeon's TMNT Summer Shorts series!:
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According to Prynoski, most of the shows Titmouse works on are fairly collaborative. “The only exception is when we’re doing like service work,” he said. “In the Vancouver studio, we do some service work for other studios, so Dreamworks or Disney or Nickelodeon will send us the pre-production, which they’ve already figured out, and we do the animation production. In those cases there’s less back and forth on the creative because it’s already been approved.” However, even with these more cut-and-dry projects there is flexibility. Prynoski pointed to Nickelodeon’s Breadwinners and DreamWorks Animation’s Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh as examples of shows that encourage animators to throw in sight gags.
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Speaking of creative freedom, one of the most interesting projects Titmouse has been working on is a reimagining of one of the most beloved kid’s franchises in modern TV history — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Throughout the summer, the animation studio has been releasing new videos as part of its TMNT Summer Shorts series. “That one was more like a labor of love kind of thing. We had done some other Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles work, and some of them were more comedy, and some were more character-based,” he said. “This [Summer Shorts series] was going to sink or swim based on the animation production value.”
Each four to five-minute video features the TMNT crew off on another adventure in a different animation style. Watching a beloved franchise being professionally reinterpreted in so many ways is interesting. According to Prynoski, each video takes anywhere from 20 to 25 weeks to make. However, there are currently no plans to turn these shorts into a full series. “We could talk to Nickelodeon, I’m not sure what’s announced,” he said. “They’re not abandoning the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property. There’s a lot of work you know in the future for that IP. But it won’t be — I think the style will be too difficult to execute on a regular basis as a series.”
“We just took this on because it looked cool and looked like a fun project, and you know, it’s not a project that we could make money on, but that’s OK,” Prynoski said. “Sometimes you just want to make something cool.”"
Read Decider fantastic interview with Chris Prynoski in full here on decider.com!
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