# ANIMATION production starts on our FIRST SHOW | Pencilish Animation Studios presents... - Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/feed/150398 - Entity ID: wefunder:feed_item:150398 - Published at: 2021-11-13 19:46:46 UTC - Updated at: 2025-07-09 03:21:09 UTC ## Author Tom Bancroft ## Subject Pencilish Animation Studios presents... ## Content This is just a quick update on a few things. The first one is that we had a big moment last week: Our first ANIMATION ISSUING meeting with our two lead animators for the show "Bjorn the Last Unicorn"! What that means is that we have come out of the development stage for Bjorn (meaning: all scripts are written, all voice actors have been recorded, we've storyboarded the first three episodes, we've designed all of the characters, and even done some animation tests with them- see our Pencilish Studios Youtube channel for that) and now we are moving into PRODUCTION animation! Going from development of a show into the production of that show is a big step because its when it really gets busy and you really (shouldn't) go backwards at this point- only forward! Here's a picture of our "in-house" team having that zoom meeting to tell the animators about their scenes and give them notes to consider on acting, story, and film cutting: Clockwise from the top, left: Producer Pam Darley (even though it says Tom Bancroft) ; CEO/director Tom Bancroft; Animator Joel Guthrie; Animator Jon Densk; and Production manager Falon Sims. The other big news (to some of you) is that we officially decided to go crazy and do full "Tradigital" HAND DRAWN 2D animation for the Bjorn series! We can't promise all our shows will be fully animated 2D animation, but we are purists and lovers of 2D animation so we wanted Bjorn the Last Unicorn to have that look! VIVA la Animation!Other Updates:If some of the above "production lingo" makes you want to know more about the production process/ pipeline for how we make our animated series- get excited- our Producer, Pam Darley, is preparing a special "Behind the Pencil" episode for our Youtube channel that will describe (in a short video form) how our Pencilish animation production pipeline works! I just previewed it today and it's GREAT!Our Second series, "Mind Over Murphy" is only a couple weeks behind "Bjorn" so that means, we are coming out of the development phase and into the animation phase very soon . We are creating some amazing animation tests in Spain with animator Diego Perez and we will share those soon!Pencilish Animation Studios is GOING TO BE AT OUR FIRST CON! That's right: we have a booth at the famous CTN Animation Expo in Burbank and will be there all next weekend- photos to come! If you're going to be there, please drop by Booth #12 and say you're an investor! Depending upon supplies, we may give you something or at least a good discount!For those (which would be ALL of you) wanting to know about fulfillment for both our PERKS and our Founders NFT rewards: We are in the planning phase of how best to deliver all of those things. We are also now hitting the prime holiday time, so please assume that MOST (if not all) of the perks and NFT rewards will not get to you until Q1 2022. We have a LOT to do since ALL of our over 3500 investors need to get their NFT (if they want it, you don't have to take it if you don't want it) and part of that is a bit of an educational process on how to go about claiming them. Please know, we will get all of the perks and NFTs to those that need to receive them. More on that in the coming weeks.Lastly, (for now) we have two new partnership properties we have signed agreements on recently (I've already mentioned "Warpigs", our newest show for Phase 2). I will be announcing an exciting new series we are partnering on in the coming weeks! I'm doing some character designs today, actually, so get excited- its a different direction and targeted toward a much underserved part of our country/world! More soon.Viva La Animation, Tom Bancroft, CEO