Trial And Error

Trial And Error

February 5, 2002 (estimated) TV Episode Quads!

Series title: Quads!

Studio
Nelvana Limited, Media World Features Pty. Ltd., ScreenWest Inc, Film Victoria, Special Broadcasting Service Corporation
Animation studio
Animation Works

Synopsis

Blazer meets a sexy wild woman at a rave, and it's love at first bite&but it's the next day that things really begin to heat up- when he's accused of her murder! Franny and Fontaine hunt for clues to clear Blazer. Blazer's days as a free head look to be numbered when Reilly takes over as his defense attorney!

Characters

Reilly, Blazer, Fontaine, Lefty, Spalding, Griz, Deborah (Debbie) Golden, Franny, Mort Bromberg, Liz Bromberg, Sister Butch Johnson, Ricky, Rich Jamaican Guy

Credits

Directing

Director
Chris Labonte, Steve French
Assistant Director
Kevin Colbourne

Writing

Writer
Jennifer Cowan
Story Editor
Todd Thicke

Voices

Voice
James Kee (Reilly), Terri Hawkes (Franny), Mark Trevorrow (Spalding), Cliff Saunders (Blazer), Paul Haddad (Lefty), Hamish Hughes (Griz), Diane Fabian (Liz Bromberg), Marvin Kaye (Mort Bromberg), Maurice Dean Wint (Fontaine), Linda Kash Deborah Debbie Golden, Corinne Conley (Sister Butch Johnson)

Music

Music
John Clifford White (Original Theme Song and Score)
Original Theme Song, Score Performed By
Nanna's Bag
Music Supervisor
Amy Fritz

Crew

Creator
John Callahan
Line Producers
Marlene Schmidt, Ross Hutchens
Script Editor
Chris Fitchett
Voice Director
Dan Hennessey
Casting Director
Dee Shipley
Casting Coordinator
Danis Goulet
Casting Assistant
Elisabeth Soares
Recording Assistants
Kerry Bones, Edmund Chan, Tony Elliot
Casting
Greg Apps, Prototype Casting
Production Supervisors
Ruta Cube
Production Managers
Judy Leung, Liz O'Dea
Production Coordinators
Carrie Justason, Ben Sheppard
Production Assistants
Stephen Lategan, Ben Hoadley
Production Secretaries
Yvette Coyne, Katie Musgrave
Script Coordinator
Katie Musgrave
Storyboard Artists
Chris Labonte, Greg Hill, Steve Daye, Julian Harris, Ian Beattie, Aaron Davies, Ted Bastien, Chad Hicks, Gerry Cappelle, Dave Pemberton, Adam Duncan, Steve French
Storyboard Clean-Up Artists
Robyn Boyko, Jason Armstrong, Stephen Grant, Claude Parissi, Marcus McKebery
Storyboard Coordinators
Stephanie Seifert, Holly Stoddart
Design Supervisors
Bradley Overall, Scott Vanden Bosch
Designers
Glen Wyand, Danny Kahan, Katherine Luk, Warwick Bennett, Juraj Kord, Dale Desrochers, Robert Fiorini, Rodica Oancea, Jos Valdman, Paul Kaptein
Design Co-ordinators
Sairi D. Forest, Paula Hatton
Design Breakers/Scene Planners
Dave Shepherd, Kuei-Chung Huang, Gaetan Raspanti, Ian Tregonning, Jo Jongbloed
Colour Designer
Joanne Merrill
Background Painter
Vesna Mostovac
Colour Assistant
Jason Abrahams
Animation Checker
Claude Parissi
Technical Directors
Eric Flaherty, Remko Noteboom, Lloyd Simms, Jehan Perera
Picture Technical Director
Henny van Teylingen
Technical Support
Dan Mokriy, Sam Watterson
Technical Lead, Pre-Production
Henry Watkins
Pre-Production Supervisor
Chris Gould
Pre-Production Assistants
David Wright, Kevan Byrne, Steve Foster
Pre-Production Editing
Darrell MacDonald, Kent Theaker, Shawn Kalb, Malcolm Lewis, Ellen DesRues, Mark Grosicki, David Wright, Shelley Mills-Highes, Merlin Cornish
Video Transfer Supervisor
Jeff Howard
Splitter
Lex MacCrimmon
Post-Production Manager
Glen Pollock
Post-Production Supervisor
Merlin Cornish
Post-Production Administrator
Wendy Martin
Director Post-Production
Rob Kirkpatrick
Post-Production Coordinators
Brian Marsh, Francesca Strano, Diane Janes
Post-Production Assistants
Joey Aguiar, Steve Henry
Digital Picture Supervisors
John Fleming
Offline Picture Editors
Doug Appeldoorn, Merlin Cornish
Online Picture Editor
George Awburn
Technical Sound Manager
Ian MacWilliams
Sound Mixer
Stephen Witherow
Music Engineer
Scott Heming
Sound Editor
Peter Burgess
Dialogue and Sound Effects Editors
Dallas Johnson, Todd Shattock
Foley Editor
Justin Hughes
Business and Legal Affairs
Elaine Partridge, Gai Steele
Completion Guarantor
Anni Browning
Executive for Teletoon
Madeleine Levesque
International Sales
NELVANA
Crew
Produced with the assistance of

Companies and other credits

  • Digital Picture Supervisors: Digital Pictures Melbourne
  • Technical Sound Manager: Labsonics Pty Ltd
  • Completion Guarantor: Film Finances
  • Completion Guarantor: Inc
  • Australian Sales: Media World Features Pty Ltd
  • Produced in association with
  • Produced in association with
  • ScreenWest and The Lotteries Commission of Western Australia
  • CANADA -- Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
  • Developed with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission
  • Produced with the assistance of Film Victoria
  • Quads! © 2002 Nelvana Limited/Media World Features Pty Ltd/Special Broadcasting Service Corporation/Film Victoria/Screen West Inc
  • All Rights Reserved

Production notes

Produced entirely with Flash animation.

Cartoonist John Callahan, the creator and executive producer of this black comedy, was himself paralyzed by a car accident at age 21.

With animators in Toronto, Melbourne and Perth able to access materials from a shared Web site, work on the series was able to progress around the clock. Animators in Canada and Australia worked with elements stored on a designated database, and individual scenes were developed instantaneously by both the Australian and Canadian directors.