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Yoko!
Jakamoko! Toto!
(2002 - 2003)
producers: Collingwood O'Hare
for HIT Entertainment
animation: 2D animation
episodes: 52 x 5mins
"Yoko!
- Jako! - Moko! - Blsssfrrt!"
-
Toto gets fruity
Yoko, Jakamoko and Toto are three lively
latin spirits bottled and blended with
South American rythmns to produce a most infectious
and original cartoon series.
Yoko is a free-thinking bird of paradise, Jakamoko
is a slow-but-sure armadillo
and Toto a cheeky monkey-geist. Together they
explore a colourful latin
landscape of pampas scrub, parched plateaus, and
lush forests, encountering
new friends, spooky places, and odd creations
everywhere they go. And more
importantly, they found out about each other
along the way; their good points,
their bad points, how to compromise, how to
get the most out of things together.
The threesome interact through simple sounds
and laughter, expressing one
or more of their names out loud and adding inflection
or repetition as required.
It's very effective!
The series looks terrific, from the 'day-glo'
character designs through to the
textured effects woven through the backgrounds.
Stylistically, Tony Collingwood's
team have embraced the triangles and ziggurat
steps of the Aztecs and Incas
and the landscapes feature a bright splashy
palette of oranges, violets, and
yellows. Underlying every action and interaction
is music and rythmn. This
too is most attractive; flighty pan pipes and
maracas and spanish guitars
and a jolly backbeat. Capping it all is the
brightest, liveliest, most addictive
title sequence imaginable.
'Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!' defies it's pre-school
scheduling. It's funny for kids
big and snall, with lots of cheeky shenanigans
to keep us amused. It's also
surprisingly touching when our characters reconcile
with one another, or stop
to admire the stars at night. And this little Latin
wonder has now gone on to
collect two shiny Children's BAFTAs from the
2004 awards: One for Best
Pre-School Animation and the other for Best
Original Writing - this for a show
with ne-er a word of dialogue aside from the
characters' names!
The show's triumph came at the second time of
asking, it having been nominated
in 2003 in the same categories. And
Collingwood O'Hare are BAFTA regulars,
of course, having previously won gongs for Animal
Stories and the splendidly
silly Eddy
and the Bear...
Awards
2004 - Children's BAFTA: Best Pre-School
Animation
Children's
BAFTA: Best Writer - Original Material
2004 - British Animation Awards (BAA)
- Writers Award
2003 - Bradford Animation Festival - Best
TV Series For Children
2002 - Annecy International - Best Pilot
2002 - Cartoons Of The Bay, Positano -
Best Pilot
In
the news
The
Hound: October 2002
YJT is a hit with The Hound...
The
Hound: February 2002
YJT in production...
1st
season episodes
The Special Thing The
Egg
The Lesson
The Scary Monster The
Bip The
Song
The Waterhole The
Visit The
Meal
The Patient The
Naughty Noise The Windy
Day
The Whale The
New Best-Friend The Hiccups
The Night
The Girlfriend The
Copycat
The Shell The
Cave The
New King
The Very Sticky Thing The Other
Side The
Other Monkey
The Fly The
Longest Day
Yoko!
Jakamoko! Toto! on DVD
Adventures
With Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
9
episodes / 55mins / R2 / HIT Entertainment / April 2003
created
and directed by Tony Collingwood
directed
and designed by Andrea Tran
producer:
Chris O'Hare
writer: Tony
Collingwood
script editor: Helen
Stroud
storyboard: Tom
Elmes, chris Drew
additional
design: Al
Douglas, Nick Gibson
studio man: Alexander
Lentjes
layout:
Paul Gunson, Fabrice Langelier,
Kate
Fortune Jones
animators: Julian
Hanshaw, Richard James,
Karen
Ullmann, Dennis Sisterson
Tanya
Fenton, Matthew Hood,
Paul
Daley, Peter Bunzl,
Gordon
Langley
editor:
Fred Ziecker
celaction2D
support:
Andy Blazdell, Simon Lipowicz
sound eng: David
Peacock
post prod:
Richard Lambert, Trevor Smith,
Pete
Dixon
prod man:
David Elden
production
team:
Mueser Alibey, Finola Davis, Juliet Golz,
Mark Wright, Paul Skevington
music: Roger
Jackson
voices:
Alex Kelly (Yoko)
Gary
Martin (Jakamoko)
Rob
Rackstraw (Toto)
On
the web
Collingwood
O'Hare
http://www.collingwoodohare.com
A mini-site here within the main
COH site. Features a big selection of
quality wallpapers, including a
quartet that are animated. Lots of character
pics too and an illustrated episode guide.
All this, plus THAT song
in MP3 format - superb!
HIT
Entertainment
http://www.yoko-jakamoko-toto.com
Re-directs you to a mini HIT site
featuring an animated intro and lots
of little YJT games for younger
kids. Quite fun, actually, even for us
bigger kids...
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