Longform & IP
The heart of Hocus Pocus is to develop and produce longform & IP projects. We have a reputation for creating high quality educational & entertaining content that can speak to multiple audiences. We’re at our happiest when we’re writing and producing content that’s colourful, fun and makes a difference at the same time as making people laugh.
SKY KIDS
Ready Eddie Go!
Ready Eddie GO! is an animated preschool show of 26 * 7 min episodes first commissioned
by Sky Kids in 2022. Eddie is a kind, giggly, brilliantly imaginative little boy - who also
happens to be autistic. Whatever adventure the day has in store - be it an Easter Egg hunt, a
train journey, or a trip to the dentist’s - he always likes to know what’s going to happen in
advance.
Ready Eddie Go! offers bitesize ‘how to’ guide for an array of life scenarios: dressing up;
exploring new foods; playing a board game; hosting a visitor. Each episode walks Eddie and
his pals, step-by-step, through the day’s upcoming activity, with plenty of playful cutaways
and fun set-pieces along the way.
Based on Nikki Saunders’ My Awesome Autism books, the show offers colourful and
entertaining ‘life primers’ for curious kids - full of imagination, heart, and fun. The series is
expertly voiced by Jodie Whittaker, Sanna Kurihara, Grayson Davies and Imran Shebani.
Ready Eddie GO! is available on Sky Kids linear channel,
on demand and also on nowTV and apple TV in the UK. Aardman look after the global distribution.
Following the great success of season one, season two is now in production with an
estimated launch date of July 2025.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
History - The Interesting Bits
‘History is a fascinating peek into how we ended up here, but much of it, frankly, isn't very
interesting.’ Hopefully that’s where we come in! We love working on a nice juice telly
project so imagine the delight when we were the animation studio commissioned by
Impossible Factual / National Geographic to work on a lovely new project – History, the
interesting bits!
This is a very graphics driven look into the fun / quirkier parts of history and a delight to work
on. Because we’re telling stories about many parts of history with few or no archive assets, it
relies heavily on imaginative illustration and quirky animation to bring everything to life.
With 8 eps, 10 mins animation each it was a bit of a whopping production – several months’
worth for a chunky team of artists, animators and compositors. The style we ended up with is
like a fresh take on Python, but clean and fresh. Season 2 soon, please!
INNERLY
Softskills
This is a series of situational judgment test films for Innerly created for online / app testing as part of a recruitment process. It’s a very visual approach to psychometric testing, with detailed, colourful CGI characters and environments.
Broadly speaking the user is tasked with watching a series of videos and then responses are monitored. The detailed animation allows for a nuanced approach where body language and other non-verbal cues can also be assessed.
It was a big project: 30 mins of content across 10 environments. We’re really pleased with the art style, stylised to an extent, but not distracting from the main subject matter.
Enquiries
If you have a longform project you’d like to talk to us about, give us a holler at: mail@hocuspocus.studio