Ant Ray Vision

Ant Ray Vision

January 8, 2006 (estimated) TV Episode It's a Big Big World

Studio
Big Big Productions, Three Kids and a Dog LLC Animation Studio: Wainscott Studios

Synopsis

While Snook spends time following a butterfly, seeing what things look like from her point of view, Bob decides that if he tries to understand the world from the ants' perspective, they might like him better. After dressing up in antennas and extra legs, trying to lift heavy things, and crawling all over the tree, Bob is disappointed and thinks he hasn't gotten to know the ants any better. But when he receives a package from the ants, what is inside really helps him see things from their point of view.

Characters

Snook, Smooch, Winslow, Wartz, Madge, Burdette, Bob the Anteater, Ick, Oko

Credits

Producing

Producer
Mary James
Executive Producers
Mitchell Kriegman, Marianne Culbert
Line Producers
Becca Reed, Iwona Awlasewicz

Writing

Creator
Mitchell Kriegman

Animation

Puppeteers
Peter Linz, James Goodwin, Tim Legasse

Production notes

Perspective- - What we see influences what we know and care about. Many animals see the world in different ways than we do, and seeing the world the way that other creatures do can help us to understand that creature.

The series uses Shadowmation, a technique combining puppetry, animatronics and computer-generated animation. The patented process utilizes real-time virtual sets and run raku-style team puppetry, integrating live-action animatronic characters and computer-generated animation in real-time, high-definition virtual environments.

Forty half-hour episodes are planned. Each episode contains two 15-minute segments.

On July 14, 2005, the Writers Guild of America, East went on strike against Big Big Productions, the producer of this series, for refusing to honor WGA minimum pay and standards. Writers picketed the company's Wainscott Studios on Long Island.

Despite having a budget of over $10 million dollars, the Guild alleged, producer Mitchell Kriegman wanted to cut writers' script rates by two-thirds of the WGA minimum payment for this type of show and insisted on virtually eliminating residual payments for six years.