The Abadas

Dinamo Productions are pleased to announce a triple broadcaster win to produce pre-school series The Abadas (52x11’). The series will be the first project CBeebies, RTE and S4C have collaborated on together

The Abadas is a multi-layered interactive word and sound association series that has been created to appeal to a broad range of pre-school viewers. Set in the magical world of a pop-up book - in which pre-schoolers will be transported to the playful world of Pop-Up Island - viewers can search for new words while experiencing new adventures with Hari the hippo, Seren the bat and Bella the fox.

The series has educational development at its core; co-playing, developing intuition and independent thought are elements that underpin the programme’s ethos, whilst visual comedy and simple songs are key to its appeal. Each episode of the mixed-media series features catchy songs to ensure its audience is totally engaged and amused as they watch and interact with The Abadas.

Rastamouse

Based on the wonderful books written by Genevieve Dexter and Michael De Souza, the most recent show to come from Dinamo’s animation stable is the awesome Rastamouse, a stop-frame series.

It's produced by 3 stones Media and we at Dinamo are extremely pleased to have been chosen by Greg Boardman and Eugenio Perez to animate this wonderful show. Developed by Derek Mogford and subsequently directed by Tom Edgar, Rastamouse launched this week on CBeebies!

Daily at 4.40pm.

Soli & Mo’s Nature Show

Following the recent commission of Soli & Mo (26x7’) by S4C, award-winning animation company - Dinamo Productions (thats us) have announced pre-sales for the series to CiTV and Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC). In addition RTÉ has acquired the rights to the series.

Originally broadcast in Welsh under the title of Heulwen a Lleu, Soli & Mo’s Nature Show will now air in English on CiTV and RTÉ, and in Arabic on JCC.

Soli & Mo is a mixed-media pre-school show which takes a sideways look at nature and its amusing range of animals. Voiced by children and combining a mix of animation and HD wildlife footage from Cardiff-based Aden Productions, the series has been created to appeal to a broad range of pre-school audiences.

Hosted by two friends, Soli the Sun and Mo the Moon, the two meet up twice a day, at sunrise and sunset, to share their most interesting observations of earth’s animal kingdom – from fish swimming in the sea to birds flying high in the sky.

Dinamo in Broadcast Magazine et al

It would seem that Dinamo is all over the net currently - in a good way we might add! Check out some of the coverage of our Grand Opening, The Wordles announcement and more...

www.broadcastnow.co.uk
wales.gov.uk
www.egovmonitor.com
www.c21media.net
www.kidscreen.com/news
www.cynopsis.com
www.golwg360.com

Official Studio Opening

The red carpet was firmly rolled out on Wednesday (29th Sept) as we welcomed Deputy First Minister and Minister for Economy and Transport, Ieuan Wyn Jones AM and Minister for Heritage, Alun Ffred Jones AM to Dinamo, where they officially opened our Treforest Studios.

The morning ceremony was well attended by a variety of industry professionals, local business people and press. The speeches from the Government officials and wise words from our Co-MD’s Aron & Owen were even televised later that evening on S4C’s Wedi 7 - we’re famous!

The Wordles

We are thrilled to announce that CBeebies, RTÉjr and S4C are coming together in an industry first to collaborate on our stunning mixed media pre-school series The Wordles (52x11).

The series will be co-produced in association with Kavaleer Productions. Siwan Jobbins, Dinamo’s Senior Producer, says “This has been a long collaborative process with CBeebies, RTÉjr and S4C and we’re delighted to bring these three broadcasters together to create a pre-school show that is both beautiful and meaningful.”

Look out for more updates soon from the enchanting pop-up book world of The Wordles…

Projects on CBBC web portal

CBBCs brand new web-portal showcasing short form animation has picked up two of Dinamo productions’ projects:

The Heavy Heavy Monster show and Krystal Giorgiou’s Best Present Ever.

Take a look at them here.

Best Present Ever has also been selected for the Village Screen at the Glastonbury Festival, so if you’re going to the festival, look out for it!

Dinamo XL

After a long wait and many coats of paint, we have finally moved to our new larger studios situated on the outskirts of Cardiff. It’s a fantastic space with plenty of room to grow and be creative in.

This new home has enabled us to upgrade our production facilities to meet the demands of exciting future projects. For our new address go here.

Rastamouse in the House!

Team Dinamo have recently added stop frame animation to the repetorie and are currently animating Rastamouse, based on the gorgeous books by Michael De Souza and Genevieve Webster.

The series is a Three Stones Media production for CBeebies and it's looking fantastic if we don't say so ourselves.

Claude Wins at Cartoons on the Bay

Our little polar bear has done us proud 'Fun with Claude' won the Pulcinella Awards at Cartoons on the Bay 2010 in the TV series for Pre-School category.

We're really happy with the show so its great that its getting some extra recognition and we hope that it will continue to be enjoyed by new audiences. A big congratulations to the Claude team for their continued hard work.

Dinamo Website Launched!

We're very happy to have our new site up and running. Have a look round - enjoy our CG Ident on the launch page, check out the work sections split down the right hand side and peruse our reels page for a concise view of what we've been up to.

We decided to avoid an exhaustive list of our work and keep it lighter. That said theres still plenty to have a look at, and we'll be updating as often as we can.

Our New Website...

Will be with us, and by extention YOU in January. It's been in production here for a while now and we're pretty chuffed with it, so watch this space.

Oh and in the meantime our current site, just so you have a frame of reference :)