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The pinecone, along with her best friend Pony, goes against expectations and breaks the mold.

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Regular readers of this column are familiar with the ever-growing story of technology, obstacles, and Hollywood confluences.One of the recent examples was run at the end of January and is from DreamWorks Animation. Madagascar: Little Wild.. The children’s series, which began airing earlier this year, is a spin-off of the popular movie series. It traces the formation of characters such as Alex the lion and Marty Zebra, who live in the rescue habitat of Central Park in New York City. Notable from an expressive point of view is the deafness of one of the characters, the chimpanzee Dave. In an interview, executive producer and showrunner Joanna Stein told the creative team to bring in the hearing-impaired actress Shelley Mansfield to perform a “narration.” A clip from the studio called “Signing with Shaylee” shows Mansfield’s role in the show.

Where Madagascar: Little Wild Is located on Hulu and Peacock, and DreamWorks brought another animated children’s series. Pine cone & pony, To Apple’s TV + Streaming Video Service. Premiered in eight 25-minute episodes in April, the show takes on the adventures of a pine cone, an old girl with a flatulent pony, training across the line to become the right part for Zena and the princess. Continued from my best friend. This series is based on the 2016 Children’s Award-winning title of children’s writer Kate Beaton. Princess and pony..

The official teaser trailer for the series is available on YouTube.

“”Pine cone & pony A young girl grows up and advances through the world, which is the kingdom of warriors! [It’s] It’s not just a warrior kingdom. We worked hard to make it playful, fun and diverse, just as a normal playground for kids really is, “said Beaton, one of the show’s few executive producers. Said. I was in an interview earlier this month. “Princess Pinecone goes on an adventure and, with the help of her best friend Pony, learns that there are multiple ways to become a warrior. It’s a very interesting show, it’s best. You have to make your kids laugh. . “

Princess Pine Corne does not portray disability in the same sense that Dave does. Little wild Or Cece like Apple El Defo.. In both cases, their disability is immediately apparent to the audience. Dave has the aforementioned “signover” and Sese is wearing a hearing aid. Instead, Pine cone & pony It elicits a wide range of messages that apply to everyone, but especially from the underrated community. The message is simple yet profound. You are important It hopes to instill a stronger sense of belonging and self-esteem. Pinecones have all the rights to be accepted as a warrior, whether or not they are considered cute or feminine, just as Cece has all the rights to seek personal acceptance regardless of disability. I have. As showrunner Stephanie Kariner told me in a simultaneous interview, Pine cone & pony It exists as a duality. It obviously has to be enjoyed as a television. More specifically, it is “[subvert] Expectations and stereotypes [push viewers to] Live proud of who you are. “

Another nod to the disabled community is cultural dimensionality. Pine cone & pony I try to pay homage.Persons with disabilities do not belong that’s all To the disabled community. They are also part of the Black community, LGBTQ community, or AAPI community and often belong to many of them. Recognizing this crossing is very important. Beaton said one of the goals of the creative team is to incredibly diversify the town of Sturdystone. “”[Our] The generation grew up in a very Eurocentric fantasy and children’s programming with a very narrow body expression, “she said. “Everyone is worth seeing themselves on the screen without cliché restrictions. We are trying to get away from it, in general [in society], And in our show, it’s everywhere you can put it, from character design to architecture, and even behind-the-scenes expressions. “

Beaton continued. “The message is that you belong here. And I think it’s very important. In the world of warriors, for those who are” not good enough “or” not strong enough ” You will think there is a bar. .. But in our town, no matter how you are a warrior, you are a warrior you should be, and everyone else is all about it. They celebrate each other, that is who they are. That is why we chose the warrior society.[and] Great place for comedy. Kids are naturally attracted to rumbling and tumbling, it’s fun! Our show tells them:

Kaliner reflected Beaton’s emotions and praised Pinecone’s humanity. “It’s important to me that the pinecone is a flawed character. I think her shortcomings are beautiful. She has a good heart and always wants to do better, but she’s real I’m learning in a way, sometimes in a difficult way, “she said. “I wanted to make all the characters three-dimensional with pinecones. The writers dig deep and personal experience so that everyone feels like a real human being and the story doesn’t feel honest and unnatural. We also pushed comedy as much as possible not only in writing but also in art. Kate’s art style is very interesting because the expression speaks so much and is immediately relevant. Character designers, board artists, and animators worked hard to capture Kate’s style, and director Wayne Michael Lee not only shines emotional moments, but always. I was adding to adding comedy. “

Or Pine cone & pony The comprehensive theme of the conversation between Beaton and Cariner is to help children understand. They reiterated the importance of making sure that the character is as human as possible so that the audience can get a glimpse of themselves in a unique way. The show may be fictitious, but according to Beaton, its roots are very much based on reality. “Our fantasy medieval past version is a version of the child’s past imagination, giving us a lot of elbow room for what to include,” she said. “The goal was to make it fun and to make the fantasy world inclusive.”

For works of art for young children Pine cone & pony It’s pretty complicated and sophisticated. It fits well with modern sensibilities about diversity and the uniqueness of the living experience of all. Writing is sometimes very clever and will blush Miriam Meisel and Howard Hawks. It shines in a way that speaks to the complexity of the show, but remains focused on appealing to the target demographics.

As for the production itself, the experience of both Beaton and Kaliner was tracked along with the experience of other Apple TV + Seaners I’ve talked about over time. Both women praised Apple for supporting the organic process of initiating creative processes, intervening only when guidance was really needed, and promoting diversity. Kariner pointed out how impressed he was with the artwork for Atomic Cartoons, saying that the studio “did a great job” in expressing that people have different and unique ways of life. In addition, Kariner said the creative team was pleased with the eclectic nature of the world’s design and taught us a style that combined a myriad of elements from different times and places. The team worked with various consultants to bring Sturdystone to life. The goal was “to make everyone who sees feel somehow part of and represented in the world.”

Feedback on Pine cone & pony So far positive. Kaliner was enthusiastic about her comments on her work on the show and praised “many divisions of creative people who left a mark on the show and made it richer and richer than expected.”

“I had the most fun at work so far,” she said.

Beaton wrote the book on which the series is based, but her role is clearly modest. She sees herself as an “important background person” in the show. Her work involved “wearing several different hats”, but she was postponed to Cariner as the woman in charge. “I left my finger in the pie, [but] Stephanie was a real star, “Beaton said.

Appreciate Pine cone & pony Recognizing the ultimate goal of Beaton and Kaliner from a diversity perspective and a messaging perspective.Although the show does not explicitly feature disability Little wild Also El Defo or Coder Beaton and Kaliner want people to know that everyone is unique and everyone belongs to. Beaton and Kaliner, despite being the world’s largest group of more than a billion people with disabilities, given that disagreements with the disabled community are constantly being considered later in DEI conversations. Why is accessibility and assistive technology so important in the theme of “You are also important”? It doesn’t matter who you are, whether it’s a training kick bat warrior like a pinecone or a deaf girl like Sese with a kick bat hearing aid as well.

What’s more, nothing is more acceptable than tolerating the frequent punies of ponies.

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