RTÉ Jr to Premiere New 2D Animated Series ‘Doodle Girl’
Date Posted: November 1, 2024
Doodle Oodle Doo!
Doodle Girl, the brand new 2D animated series, co-produced by ALT Animation in Northern Ireland and Studio Meala in Ireland, will premiere on RTÉ Jr at 7:50am on Monday 4th November 2024.
The show is distributed by Andrew Fitzpatirck for Monster Entertainment and was developed and produced with assistance from Northern Ireland Screen, Fís Éirean/Screen Ireland, Coimisiún na Meán and the Western Development Commission.
The 26 episode by 7 minute comedy series, aimed at 4 to 7 year olds, encourages its young audience to grab their art supplies and come on an adventure with Doodle Girl and her best friend Pencil.
Each episode sees Doodle Girl and Pencil exploring the different pages of the weird and wonderful sketchbook she lives in. On each adventure, Doodle Girl meets all sorts of doodly characters, made of all sorts of different arty stuff! Drawings, paintings, origami, pasta, sock puppets, and more! There’s Doodle-Dinosaurs, Doodle-Merdogs, Doodle Cowboys, Doodle Cat-Cows, Doodle Robots, and even Doodle boy bands. That’s a lot of new friends to meet! Best of all, thanks to Pencil, Doodle Girl can sketch whatever pops into her head. With her magic words, ‘Doodle Oodle Doo!’ whatever she draws pops to life! Which is a handy way for her to help out a new friend or get herself out of trouble! For Doodle Girl, each day is a blank canvas. Find out what she doodles next!
Doodle Girl is voiced by the amazingly talented Aisling Walsh. Meanwhile, every other character in the series is voiced by Irish comedian, podcaster and writer, Tony Cantwell. The series is directed by Sean Cunningham and Cora McKenna, with each frame of the series digitally hand drawn in TV Paint and each episode is inspired by different sketchbook aesthetics. Art Director Sinead O’Regan’s choice to include a vast array of unique character designs and visual approaches comes from her own experience of learning to draw as she grew up. She notes the many styles you draw as you explore art as an expression at an early age and felt it was important to add this layer into the visuals. It was also decided early on that the series would be hand drawn to highlight a more textural feel that young viewers could try to emulate. The production was split between the team in Studio Meala in Roscommon and the team in ALT Animation in Northern Ireland, with the music for the series being provided by the talented team at Score Draw Music in Belfast.
The show will also be broadcast in Irish at a later date, with support for this provided by Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund.
