"If you compare the storyboard process of Mixed Nutz to One Thousand and One Nights, you see that the Cintiq helped us accelerate production time by nearly 60 percent." "The Cintiq 21UX displays are crucial to our efforts from asset creation and management to final shipping," says Shabnam Rezaei. Now, Big Bad Boo has undertaken its first production done entirely with the Cintiqs: 26 11-minute episodes of One Thousand and One Nights, an animated comedy targeting the 6 to 9 age group based on the ancient Persian tales of Shahrzad. The most significant efficiencies were in the storyboarding and layout processes, where paper boards and constant trips to the scanner were completely eliminated.
The Cintiq digital pipeline immediately introduced tremendous time savings as Big Bad Boo completed Mixed Nutz, which will soon premiere on PBS and Shaw Communications. They opened the doors of Big Bad Boo as a dedicated production facility in Vancouver, B.C., started their own distribution company called OzNoz Productions, and implemented an all-digital workflow by purchasing 14 Wacom Cintiq 21UX interactive pen displays. Then, in 2007 and halfway through production of the series, co-founders Aly Jetha and Shabnam Rezaei decided they needed a more centralized approach. For its first animated children's program, "Mixed Nutz," a multi-cultural comedy about a group of kids who feel they don't fit in, preproduction was divided between studios in New York and Los Angeles, while animation was contracted to the Philippines.
Originating as a virtual studio that farmed production to outside companies, Big Bad Boo Studios has grown from necessity.
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