New 2D animated series Doodle Girl voiced by Tony Cantwell airs on RTÉjr this Autumn.
Produced by Studio Meala and co-produced by Alt Animation for RTEjr, the 26 episode
by 7 minute comedy series is aimed at 4 to 7 year olds.
Grab your art supplies and come on an adventure with Doodle Girl! Along with her best
friend Pencil, Doodle Girl spends each day 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 starts Monday 4th November at 7.50am on RTÉjr, weekdays. The full series drops RTÉ Player on 4th November.
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 was developed by Studio Meala and is directed by Sean Cunningham and Cora
McKenna. Doodle Girl is animated frame by frame, mostly with the software 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 Belfast.
The show is distributed by Andrew Fitzpatirck for Monster Entertainment and was developed
and produced with assistance from Fís Éirean/Screen Ireland, Coimisiún na Meán and the
Western Development Commission.
