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Arnold lobel frog and toad5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The showrunner adds that when you have simple stories (“Frog and Toad” is targeted at early readers), you can dive into a scene and let the subtleties emerge. We’re able to take trees and rocks and bushes, landscape elements, and interchange them to create almost an infinite amount of environments.” “Since this show takes place outdoors, we were able to vary our backgrounds a lot by having foreground elements, midground elements and background elements we could mix and match. ![]() “You have a little bit more flexibility to change things around,” Hoegee said. One of the benefits of that is the ability to add new characters and details in a matter of hours, versus CG, where artists have to design and model each new element. Then those rigs are manipulated, but what’s different than, say, another CG platform, is you’re able to maintain linework and texture in a way that looks hand-drawn,” Hoegee explains. “It’s sort of a hybrid CG, so the characters are created with rigs and built within a computer program. The result is a similar style to the broken line illustrations originally featured in Lobel’s books. ![]() That’s why the animation team of roughly 30 (plus another 60 or so from animation studio Titmouse in Vancouver) hand-drew and painted the series before animating it through a program called Toon Boom Harmony. Animated Series ‘Mulligan’ Finds the Comedy in a Post-Apocalyptic America ![]()
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