Talk:Tiny Planets

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Has Halley been added to episodes afterwards? Or was she always part of the episodes? I ask because she almost seems like an afterthought, and that plus her american accent makes me wonder if she's something added for noggin. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 15:48, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


 * She was always part of the show (besides being an on-screen character, she's also the narrator, making her a critical part of the show). Also, she may not sound like it, but she IS British.
 * Got it, thanks! - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 00:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

"She was always part of the show..." Not true - when I first saw Tiny Planets on British TV, Halley was completely absent (apart from her singing voice at the beginning and end). I also have a video which does not feature Halley. So she definitely WAS added afterwards (not difficult with CGI), presumably to explain the action to all the over-5s watching it. Or to dumb it down for American TV... Oh, and by the way, I am the founder/moderator of the "tinyplanets" Yahoo Group. Simon Beck, London, UK Butterfingersbeck12:54, January 27, 2006

This page has streaming Tiny Planets videos in their original form, i.e. without Halley: http://www.tinyplanets.com/video.html


 * 1) In point of fact there are a number of small inaccuracies in this otherwise good article; Nina Elias Bamburger, although absolutely pivotal in the production and creative development of the series, did not originate the concept. That came from an internal competition organised by Andy Park when he was creative director of Pepper's Ghost, and there is some discussion as to who put together the very first half-page concept development - candidates are Rick Davies and Casey Dobie. Halley was not part of the original concept, the characters were intended to be non-speaking and non-narrated because it was felt that this would compel preschool children to pay more attention to the images; anecdotal evidence has suggested that this in fact was the case with autistic children in particular. However, there was some nervousness amongst the co-production partner’s sales team as to whether this would be acceptable in all markets, and so Halley was composited into the finished videos as an alternative product. In certain territories, most notably the UK on the CiTV children’s slot, there was neither a narrator character nor narration (apart from two introductory lines over the titles); despite this the series fared extremely well in its time slot, frequently beating major BBC shows such as Teletubbies in the ratings. Both the theme tune and Halley’s voice are by Kim Goody of the Voice and music Company, who with husband Alan Coates (formerly of The Hollies) also produced all the incidental music and sound effects. Most probably the unusual feature which set the website apart and resulted in the two BAFTA awards (2001 and 2002) was the fact that it was very early in making use of bitmapped graphic sequences, as opposed to Flash vectors, for animation. The reason for this was that during development it was decided that overly simplifying the characters simply to produce faster downloads created a degradation of the character design which was not acceptable. Techniques based on earlier CD-ROM approaches were used and made the site possibly amongst the earliest to do this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Klaatu99 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

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