Tombik
and B.B.
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TOMBIK & B.B., two very busy little
bees, are ready to take young viewers on a journey of fun, learning
and excitement.
Along the journey we will encounter a fantastical colorful world
filled with puzzles, songs and fun-facts. There
are 104 episodes with slight but interesting variations between
the first 52 and the second. Each episode presents many different
puzzles designed to stimulate a child’s thought process and develop
creativity as well.
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The child will be asked to put pieces of a
puzzle together, identify the pair, partake in other memory enhancing
games and will certainly enjoy visits from Dr. McCOOL - always ready to
espouse an interesting scientific fun-fact! PUZZLE-A-SAURUS is always
on hand to put together another challenging riddle. CLUECAT is already
ready to join in on the fun and provide helpful clues and hints to help
solve the puzzles. Other characters include TONGO the friendly bear accompanied
by his mischievous sidekick FIRKETE, not to mention the resident house
band – The BUGGIES! Young children will be captivated and thoroughly entertained
by this cast of characters and the combination of 2D and 3D artwork only
adds to the appeal.
Magica and the
Puzzle Plaza
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A Bewitcing Journey of Fun, Learning
and Adventure!
Magica stars a mischievous magician
and her curious bird side-kick Gossip, who guide viewers through
an animated educational adventure.
Magica and Gossip live in Puzzle Plaza, an amusement park-like,
colorful place situated on a tiny planet between the earth and the
moon.
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Magica presides over hundreds of Puzzle Plaza
Workers, called WhatWhats who work all day conjuring and preparing questions,
trivia and puzzles for Magica viewers.
Magica and Gossip gleefully guide viewers
through a series of questions designed to teach and encourage learning.
Children will be asked to use logic and memory in a variety of fun and
entertaining segments. Joining Magica in the fun are Ant-eye, an ant attached
to a tiny camera which broadcasts every detail, G.Whizzard, an amorphic
manager of the plaza and the Rrrapid mouse, a sneaky rodent who from time
to time steals clues to the Puzzle Plaza questions.
Magica utilizes 2D computer generated
animation mixed with live action shots and clay animation, creating a
series in step with today’s most advanced animation.
The Cartuna Show
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The CARTUNA SHOW is a lively children’s
variety program dedicated to providing a non-violent, entertaining
alternative in children’s programming.
The CARTUNA SHOW focuses on the positive goals of learning new things,
self respect, tolerance of others, concern for the environment and
artistic self expression.
The CARTUNA SHOW promises to entertain
children worldwide with its unique blend of entertainment and education.
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Rotto Botto Robotto
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Covering subjects from history and science
to art and literature, Rotto Botto provides a blend of education
and entertainment in a unique and universal style.
Kids just want to have fun and that’s exactly what they do with
Rotto Botto, the 52 x 30’ animated game show, without noticing they
get educated.
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| Featuring the futuristic and
computerized host, Rotto Botto, who’s quick wit and calculating computer
chips always leave the contestants and the audience entertained and
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The three clever and cunning contestants,
Bernardo the Dog, Ali the Rat and Black Jack the Crow, always give Rotto
Botto and the audience a lot of laughs and sometimes even the correct
answer to the questions!
Esop
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In the world of worms, Esop and Joselina
are the heroes of a non-human environment. Esop is a little boy
worm and Joselina is his sweetheart. Within
their small world, they live all the emotional stages that we do.
Their friends Regony, Zeki P. Hamilton, Sumita, Stretch, Sobo and
Helmo, reflecting various human types add a lot to the stories.
Based on the comic strips and books by Ali Murat Erkorkmaz, Esop
films carry on a philosophical atmosphere.
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Quickease
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An award winning animated package of
fillers that will fill you with delight. QUICKEASE is a compilation
of 120 x 15” – 3’ shorts, totalling
a hilarious two hours of entertainment which can be adapted to broadcaster’s
needs. Every short contains a variety of adorable and outrageous
characters in a host of humorous situations. Containing no dialog,
only music and sound effects, making broadcasting extremely simple.
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Captain
Tripp and Sealyboy.....................................................
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Captain Tripp is an old Pelican. He has
dedicated himself to the seven seas and now he’s sailing again,
with his loyal sailor friend, Sealyboy the seal, to fulfill his
surprise assignment. As he sails, he collects various stuff from
the countries he visits, to put together for his mission that will
be revealed at the last episode.
The children that watch this program
will join in, trying to guess the assignment.
Every week, the owners of the most
successful guesses will be invited to the program. He has a sailboat
that can be converted into funny designs. A truly Geographical series,
CAPTAIN TRIPP and SEALYBOY is a blend of live action and animation
a unque composition of adventure, curiosity and wit. As the animation
is completely produced in computers, the live action covers the
original footage shot at locations worldwide.
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Buzz Mc Fly and
Mc Flea
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BuzzMcFLY is a little reporter fly who
lives in the attic of a newspaper building.
With the help of his sidekick McFLEA, the flea, goes to gather news
and details where men can hardly enter. They explore the world of
animals, science and technology and extreme sports.
Their existence is only known by the editor of the newspaper and
he contacts them via a special phone line. Then, BuzzMcFLY and McFLEA
fly to gather the news.
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Zig'n'zag
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Zig and Zag are two friends, always in
competition, asking puzzles and riddles to each other. They ask
five puzzles in every episode, trying to win. Naturally, the young
viewers test themselves too trying to answer what they see on the
screen.
In their surreal environment, besides
the puzzles, they challenge each other on a certain subject.
The series is all 3D computer animation.
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The
Scarecrow and the Butterfly
One of the early computer animation products.
A scarecrow becomes friends with a butterfly and they experience the fields
and nature together.
This series was produced by TRT, Turkish
Radio and Television, as TRT shot the real action, the animation was produced
in the computer and superimposed by Ali Murat Erkorkmaz.
Yok Yok TV
YOK YOK TV is a small TV station run buy puppets.
In this series of many alternative puppets, a dense work was done to apply
high level technology into a massive production. To receive satisfying
results, even micro-cameras were used to shoot radio control puppets as
well as hand puppets, trying new techniques.
Nurveous Parrot Director, Fox Make-up
girl, Cow sound engineer and Gorilla cameraman were the most outstanding
characters of the series.
YOK YOk TV was produced for TRT and 127
puppets and 38 sets were used.
Busy Buzzy
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BUSY BUZZY is a little animated bee that
hosts a show of ten parts. Each part represents an art field, like
paintings, music, literature etc. As BUSY BUZZY flies through these
segments, he asks the viewers some questions and ask for solutions
to certain problems.
This series was first produced
for Canada but then in Turkish for Turkey.
BUSY BUZZY was honored with “the
best film” award by the ministry of culture in 1992, in Turkey.
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Jeha
JEHA was a series of 10 minute episodes that
took JEHA as the main character. JEHA is the common hero who lived in
the past, in the middle east where most of the countries claim he lived
there. He is known to be very wise and humorous.
In this series, JEHA was brought to the
20th century and made solve problems caused by the computers
and new technology.
Nasrettin Hoca
One of the early animation productions of Ali
Murat Erkorkmaz. Ten episodes of NASRETTIN HOCA was used in these half
animation, half pictolation series. NASRETTIN HOCA was an old time hero
who lived in Anatolia in the 15th century. His stories are
still told in Turkey and the aim of this series was to highlight his outstanding
wisdom.
Good Morning
GOOD MORNING was the first animated series
done for the TRT, Turkish Radio and Television’s Sunday morning program,
Good Morning. It consisted of small episodes and animated commercials
that covered non-brand subjects from drinking milk to vaccination.
Hazir Fazir
HAZIR FAZIR was the first series Ali Murat
Erkorkmaz had produced when he started his studio in Bahrain. It was base
for the coming series of Rotto Botto.
In HAZIR FAZIR, three animals were competing
in a quiz show where the questions were asked by a boy. It was prepared
in Arabic and English.
Shasha
Saghira
Shasha Saghira is a variety show that covers
many segments from puppet clips to animated stories.
As the program arrows points to a certain
segment, a new color of animation, a new style is formed on the screen.
There are many songs sang by puppets in every episode.
This series was produced in Arabic and
English.
Babum show
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BABUM SHOW was produced for Turkey’s
number one TV channel, ATV. It was a Saturday morning show that
was hosted by a live girl together with an animated Gorilla. The
scenes were shot in real time, three camera shooting. A special
artificial intelligence program was written for this show which
enabled BABUM, the gorilla to form its own actions depending on
the girls gestures. The animation was produced in real time, which
was a first in the world. Some celebreties visited the show every
week to chat with BABUM. Some even sang and played some instruments
with him.
The show also covered clay animation,
computer news and animated musical clips.
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The Buggies
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Back by popular demand, the cutest little
creatures ever to play music have compiled their greatest hits in
a series of 26 songs. These internationally famous insects perform
their infectious songs to sold out audiences.
Dobug, Rebug, Mibug, Fabug and
Solbug are the members of this group which produces modern and intellectual
songs for children.
The Buggies are one group of bugs
you don’t want to exterminate!
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Eftah ya semsem
Eftah ya Semsem was the Arabic version of the
Sesame Street, produced by the Children’s Television Workshop in Kuwait.
Ali Murat Erkorkmaz produced the animated segments of this series.
Bekir.
Tekir and the Jails
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Back by popular demand, the cutest little
creatures ever to play music have compiled their greatest hits in
a series of 26 songs. These internationally famous insects perform
their infectious songs to sold out audiences.
Dobug, Rebug, Mibug, Fabug and
Solbug are the members of this group which produces modern and intellectual
songs for children.
The Buggies are one group of bugs
you don’t want to exterminate!
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BEKIR, TEKIR and the TAILS is a rock group
of cats. They sing intellectual songs for children, covering subjects
from Zoo problems to Granma’s Tango.
Hands
up
This is a group of animated shorts produced
for the weekly TV show “Eller Yukarý”, in Turkey. The segments were consisted
of animations related to the live action magazine parts of the show.
Yuki
The adaptation of Orhan Boran’s famous fictious
character YUKI to the TV screen. This series was produced using real time
2 D animation technology, overlaying the pre-recorded live scenes. The
scripts were taken from the early radio program where YUKI, the rabbit-like
cartoon character was interacting with Orhan Boran. However, because of
the marketing problems, it couldn’t hit the screen.
Droplet
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This series was produced for ISKI, water
supply division of the Municipality of Istanbul. The
aim of the series was to teach children how the water is supplied
and it should be handled. Damlacýk, the little droplet, with the
help of his grandpa, Dededamla, was going through an adventure full
of water.
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Citlembik
Produced for TRT, Turkish Radio and Television,
Chitlembik was a series of animated shorts that took place in a live action
magazine program for young adults. Chitlembik futured a young girl who
went through various episodes, each one ending up with a gag.
How Toon
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HOWTOON is a series of live action and
animation where Ali Murat Erkorkmaz appears in the screen, in front
of a big drawing pad and starts teaching the viewers how to draw
caricatures of animals in very simple lines and circles. After he
completes the drawings in approximately 3 minutes, the lines come
to life and go through a funny gag. During the drawing, Ali Murat
Erkorkmaz also gives some information about that animal.
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Kuklormonia
Here is a full classical orchestra playing
songs for children. From the woodwinds to the arches, a complete orchestra.
The funny side of the whole thing is this orchestra is composed of puppets.
With every instrument constructed to its finest detail, this tiny group
of musicians play standard classical music as well as music composed by
Ali Murat Erkorkmaz.
No to Memorize
This series was created for the “White Dot
Foundation” to back the anti-memorize movements in the schools and houses
of the Turkish society. Caricaturizing
the former minister of culture, Týnaz Titiz, our cartoon hero jumps out
of the pencil box of a student, inspiring her on why she should suspect
and wonder all the things that are thought to her. The student is shot
in live action and Mr. Titiz is in cartoon
form.
Esop
Woody
and May....
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WOODY and MAY is an animated acrtoon
future film about two children of different cultures meeting in
a forest area in the Taurus mountains, Turkey. Woody can talk to
the animals and May is the daughter of an American engineer who
is there to explore the woods and report if an industrial plant
can be put there.
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Depremdede and
doga
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After
the earthquakes that shook Turkey in 1999, Ali Murat Erkorkmaz made
this cartoon series to educate children on how to face such disasters.
The series was made of three parts. Part one was about how to get
prepared for a potential earthquake, second, what to do during the
earthquake, and third, what has to be done after the shakes. Prof.
Dr. Ahmet Mete Isikara supervised the project as his character was
used as the major cartoon figure. He tried to help two children,
Meltem and Yildirim who tried to form a rescue team together with
their cat, Doga.
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