BBC picks Toonz series for telecast

BBC has picked up a Toonz Animation production Freefonix for telecast. Freefonix, which was created at the Toonz facility in Kerala, is unique in the fact that it has been made on 3D.

The animated cartoon series is being telecast on CBBC and BBC One. The co-producers to this 40 episode series are Cinnamon Entertainment, Method Films, Isle of Man and BBC and the product has been rolled out on a cost of $20 million.

Freefonix is the largest commission by BBC for an animation series. The scripts for Freefonix were written in Los Angeles and New York, while the voices were recorded in Ireland. The story is about three mismatched heroes who form a band called Freefonix to safeguard the most powerful force in the universe named 13th Note. The 13th Note can bend space and minds when the perfect sound is created.

Freefonix, meanwhile, takes up the mission of saving the world from a dark future that will be brought on through the teaming up of an evil force which calls itself VOX and Mya De Zya, her cronies called Mantyz, 50 years into the future in the city of Los Bosmos, a Toonz communication said. Freefonix features stars R'n'B superstar Jamelia, Justin Hawkins, star Chico, cricketer Alistair Cook, actor Joseph Fiennes and musician Hayley Ecker.

Toonz Animation has already made a name globally by becoming South Asia’s most admired animation studio. It has on its client big names such as Marvel, Hallmark, Paramount, Disney, BBC and Cartoon Network. Toonz Animation offers its world-wide clientele end-to-end animation services including 3D animation, 2D animation, Flash, Stop Motion and VFX on a full spectrum of media platforms. The Animation Magazine has heralded the company as one of the top-ten multimedia studios in the world. The sprawling, 18,000 sq ft state-of-the-art studio is based in Thiruvananthapuram’s Technopark and boasts of over 500 artists at work.