Silver Screen Lucy
- Studio
- The Orphanage Inc.
- Distributor
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Synopsis
A wondrous and fiendishly humorous series about a Newfoundland orphanage full of freakish children who are desperately trying to get adopted.
Characters
Princess Lucy, Aldous, Armie, Brian Brain, Beasley & Byron, Charlie, Sammy Fishboy, Seymour Talkless, Nanny Goodapple
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Bradley (Brad) Peyton, Marc Lougee
- First Assistant Director
- Jason M. Washington
Producing
- Producer
- Susan Ma (Co-Producer)
- Supervising Producer
- Edward Kay
- Creative Producer
- Marc Lougee
- Executive Producers
- Bradley (Brad) Peyton, Fred Fuchs
- Assistant Editor
- Kemal Ally
Writing
- Writer
- Bradley (Brad) Peyton, Dwayne Hill, Edward Kay
- Punch-Up Writer
- Kyle Muir
- Additional Dialogue
- Dwayne Hill
Animation
- Animator
- Nathan Carey, Bob Crossman, Payton Curtis, Ryan Fairley, Aaron Fenwick, Lola Leo, Luck Mistruzzi, Peggy Serena, Joel Tellier, Mike Weiss
- Animation Directors
- Neil Burns, Marc Lougee
- Animation Editor
- Jay Houpt
- Animation Consultant
- Marc Lougee
Voices
- Voice
- Adam Reid (Armie), Stacey Depass, Dwayne Hill (Princess Lucy), Julie Lemieux (Sammy Fishboy), Peter Cugno (Charlie), Andrew Sabiston (Brian Brain)
Music
- Music
- Steve London
Editing
- Editor
- Paul Hunter, Kathy Weinkauf
Crew
- Creator
- Bradley (Brad) Peyton
- Art Direction
- Matt Middleton
- Property Master
- Andrew Heffron
- Assistant Property Master
- Ansonn Bryant
- Props
- Tiffany Barnwell, Kim Billing, Jonathan Graham, Allison Hrabluik, Dan Oke, Nikki Woolsey
- Puppet Master
- Tony Chappell
- Assistant Puppet Master
- Tina Jones
- Foley Artists
- Stefan Fraticelli, Sid Lieberman
- Foley Recordist
- Randy Wilson
- Lead Digital Compositor
- Jason Kozsurek
- Digital Compositor
- Jason Kozsurek
- Digital Artists
- Gabriel Teran, Greg Zajac, Thomas McDermott, Jesse Schmidt
- Casting
- Dee Shipley
- Costume Design
- Heather Goodchild
- Assistant Costume Designer
- Rosary Kwak
- Production Manager
- Jeff Wilson
- Storyboard Artists
- Jim Craig, Mike MacDougall
- Fabricators
- Brendan Fahy, Jason Knight, Naomi Yasui
- Painter
- Kevin Hutchinson
- Scenic Painter
- Bradley McInnis
- Character Sculptor
- Christy Langer
- Head Carpenter
- Mark Mantzel
- Carpenters
- Mike Law, Rob White
- Construction Coordinator
- Adam Weir
- Music Editor
- Lesley Mackay Hunter
- Sound Designer
- Alison Clark
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Brad Zoern
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Jason Kozsurek
- Visual Effects Artist
- Keren Kurtz
- Gaffer
- Ben Essery
- Production Coordinator
- Eric Beldowski
- Business and Legal Affairs
- Eric Birnberg, Julie Chang, Thomas Mark Walden
- Unit Publicist
- Robert Brodey
- Production Accountant
- Rose Chalker
- Set Production Assistant
- Kendall Coontz
- Production Assistant
- Ron White
- Script Supervisor
- Joanna Corbett
- Voice Director
- Jed McKay
- Story Department
- Brian Hartigan
Production notes
Stop-motion animation.
"It's visually arresting and has an incredibly dry sense of humor," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation executive Sally Catto said of the prime-time series. But at the same time, Brad's animation work isn't emotionally detached, like a South Park. There are moments of great heart in it, too."
To pitch the show to top CBC executives, creator Brad Peyton animated a melancholy Goth named Aldous to talk about the series in her doomed, depressive monotone. In the animation, as she finished her unenthusiastic spiel, her head was chopped off. As the gore oozed out, it formed itself into a blood-soaked CBC logo.
Tabletop sets for the series were built from scratch within a warehouse in the east end of Toronto.
"Princess Lucy is a horrible mutant who thinks she's gorgeous. These characters suffer only briefly- they don't want to wallow in it, they want to have fun. And if I can drop a giant pair of scissors through an orphan's head and cause people to laugh, then I've done my small part for public broadcasting," Peyton said.
The series is remarkably low-budget, said Peyton: "Tim Burton does six warm-up takes- we have to get it on the first shot. Other stop-motion shows look like they ran out of money, but ours looks like we have way more money than we have."
Each of the series' eight central characters were adjusted for each of the 30-frame-a-second shots. Separate lips were needed for different vowels and consonants. Three hours of work resulted in no more than 10 seconds of film.
This TV series ran for only 13 episodes - from June 26 to September 18, 2006. The series received especially poor ratings when it finally aired after being postponed for a year. It has been described as one of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "prime-time dogs" with an audience of only 78,000 people. The series finale had only 163,000 viewers.
"It's visually arresting and has an incredibly dry sense of humor," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation executive Sally Catto said of the prime-time series. But at the same time, Brad's animation work isn't emotionally detached, like a South Park. There are moments of great heart in it, too."
To pitch the show to top CBC executives, creator Brad Peyton animated a melancholy Goth named Aldous to talk about the series in her doomed, depressive monotone. In the animation, as she finished her unenthusiastic spiel, her head was chopped off. As the gore oozed out, it formed itself into a blood-soaked CBC logo.
Tabletop sets for the series were built from scratch within a warehouse in the east end of Toronto.
"Princess Lucy is a horrible mutant who thinks she's gorgeous. These characters suffer only briefly- they don't want to wallow in it, they want to have fun. And if I can drop a giant pair of scissors through an orphan's head and cause people to laugh, then I've done my small part for public broadcasting," Peyton said.
The series is remarkably low-budget, said Peyton: "Tim Burton does six warm-up takes- we have to get it on the first shot. Other stop-motion shows look like they ran out of money, but ours looks like we have way more money than we have."
Each of the series' eight central characters were adjusted for each of the 30-frame-a-second shots. Separate lips were needed for different vowels and consonants. Three hours of work resulted in no more than 10 seconds of film.
This TV series ran for only 13 episodes - from June 26 to September 18, 2006. The series received especially poor ratings when it finally aired after being postponed for a year. It has been described as one of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "prime-time dogs" with an audience of only 78,000 people. The series finale had only 163,000 viewers.