The excitement grew
within them... then the words they had been
waiting for all these years echoed across the
studio,
"Lights... Camera... Action"!
We call them the gang, because over the years they have started to increase in numbers. We started out in 2002 creating four characters for what we hoped would become a home-grown (South African) production about a group of friends out in nature having one adventure after the next.
We started out with our first script about a frog called Chip and a mouse called Howie. The test pilot episode looked stunning... the budget didn't.
Over the years, this little five minute episode became something we enjoyed watching and it made us long to be able to make more of these adventures.
The reality was that we could not self-finance this mammoth task on our own, so we decided to shelve the idea until a time when all the pieces were in the right places.
I decided to continue making puppets, and not just hand puppets, but puppets for stop-frame animation as well. This led to a whole new group of friends who joined our gang.
From Helpful Harry, Snail and Hippo to Alex the Alien. It was getting difficult to remember all of their names.
I decided to get back to hand puppets as this was where I found I got the most feedback from my creations. I made a Bear family, lions, hippos and a host of other characters.
We have now come to a starting point where we feel lead to start using our character to create Christian based programs that have
uplifting content that can be supplied to under privileged children and communities in South Africa and hopefully other countries in the years to come, with God's Grace.