Password: QUALITY

This cartoon was originally created in 1991 as a sample for a potential series of motivational videos for corporations. We managed to get a video distributor who dealt with the corporate market interested, and then went on to create this sample cartoon.

We enlisted the aid of Larry Theobalds to design the characters; Larry has always had a cool and funky warped cartoon style, and we thought it was a good fit. Master animator Olun Riley did the character animation based on Larry's designs; we were lucky to work with Olun at the time, for he went on to animate for Don Bluth Studios shortly afterward.

Gord Davis and myself translated all of Olun's drawings to computer by retracing his originals on the Easyl drawing tablet. We were using Amiga computers and Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint III to create the finished animation. Gord and I also created the backgrounds and titles.

We had allied with local sound production studio Evolution Sound and James Pirie Productions for the professional soundtrack and voiceover; in fact, it was in talks with James and Diane Pirie that we came up with the idea for this whole project to begin with, and Diane also provided the script.

I can't recall what happened but the project never took off - even though we could create the product cheaply and quickly (about 3 days start to finish - GREAT for 1991!).

We dug it out of our video archives, digitized and cleaned it up and present to you: "Password: QUALITY". Enjoy! :) - Nik Poliwko