News:
2007 "Little Kingdom, a new series from Astley Baker Davies, has started production. The 52 x 10 minute series stars Ben Elf and Fairy Princess Holly, who live in the Little Kingdom.
2006 “Little Kingdom” wins Best
Pilot Pulcinella award at Cartoons On the Bay.
2006 “Peppa Pig”
Series Two (Episodes 53 - 104) broadcast on the UK’s Channel FIVE Milkshake
block and Nick Jr. in the UK. And the series has now sold to over 120
territories internationally, including North and South America, Australasia,
Benelux, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand and Scandinavia. Peppa Pig books
are published by Ladybird in the UK.
2005 “Peppa Pig”
wins the BAFTA for Best Pre-School Animation.
2005 “Peppa Pig” wins the
Grand Prix for Best TV production at the Annecy Animation Festival.
2004 “Peppa Pig”
Series One (Episodes 1 - 52) broadcast on the UK’s Channel FIVE Milkshake block
and Nick Jr. in the UK.
February 2004 Big
Knights news – KI.KA ARD/ZDF German TV have set up a new German Big
Knights Website. Amongst other things, they have included some rarely seen
episodes of the Big
Knight’s Comic Strip (in both English and German versions).
February
2004 More Big
Knights news - New copies of the “The Big Knights – The Big Adventures”
VHS are available again, online at Amazon.co.uk (This
video contains the first six of the total thirteen episodes.)
February
2003 Mark Baker has animated a short (1’40”) sequence for
Imagica Japan’s film “Winter Days”. Animators from around the world have
interpreted the 36 linked verses (renku) contained in Matsuo Basho's poem
"Fuyu No Hi" (Winter Days).
February
2003 Contender Entertainment Group and Astley Baker Davies are
now in production on the first series of Peppa Pig (52 x 5 minute episodes).
Peppa Pig will be aired in the UK by Nickelodeon's preschool channel Nick
Junior and Channel Five and is due for delivery early in 2004. The series is
being scripted by Mark Baker and Neville Astley with guest scripts by Alison
Snowden, Sarah Kennedy and Angela Palethorpe. Animation production starts in
the UK in August 2003. Design work is already under way and Peppa Pig will be
animated using CelAction 2D (the same technique that was pioneered by The Big
Knights).
August
2002 Peppa Pig Debuts at Cartoon Forum. Created and
directed by Mark Baker and Neville Astley, Peppa Pig follows the adventures of
a "cheeky and slightly bossy" little pig. The 52x5 animation series
is aimed at pre-school children.
April
2002 The Big Knights are riding again on the new BBC
Digital Channel CBBC from Monday 29th April 2002.
A chance to
see all the episodes again - for the next three weeks on CBBC at 3:55pm Mondays
to Fridays!
October 2001
At FAN International Animation Festival 2001 UK, “The
Big Knights” wins the 'Best Commercial Series Animation Award'. The Festival
took place from the 25th to 28th October 2001.
August
2001 At SICAF 2001 (the Seoul International Cartoon and
Animation Festival) “The Big Knights” wins the Grand Prize for the Best
Animation Series.
June
2001 At the Annecy 2001 Animation Festival, France, “The
Big Knights” wins the Award for Best Television Series.
May
2001 Astley Baker at Loose Moose complete 30” commercial,
“Red and Ned in Cheese Trapeze” for Kraft Foods/JWT Chicago.
January
2001 Astley Baker are in post-production on two new
animation series pilots, “Peppa Pig” and “The Big World”. Both are aimed at
pre-school children and both are made up of 52 x 5 minute episodes.
May
2000 “The Big Knights – The Big Adventures” is
available on video! “The Big Knights – The Big Adventures” can be bought
online at www.bbcshop.com, as well
as Amazon.co.uk and all
good retailers.
(This video
contains the first six of the total thirteen episodes.)
March
2000 The Big Knights wins two prizes at the 2000 British
Animation Awards (BAA):
Best Adult
Animation Series
Best Use of
New Technologies
