The other day, Nicolaï Chauvet aka Méko, original creator of Bunny Maloney/Pinpin le Lapin emailed me! Our email exchange unearthed a lot of interesting behind-the-scenes information about the show and the original flash pilot. I'll post the whole exchange and the photos he sent under the cut, but here's a quick summary.
He's been away from the internet for a while due to a back injury and is currently making a living designing collector's edition DVD box sets.
Bunny Maloney in its final form was intended to be a show for teens and up; he thought that was made clear, but Moonscoop and Kabillion clearly had other plans. He had no idea that the show was ever distributed for younger kids overseas. He received no royalties for the overseas distribution, either.
Pinpin le Lapin was not originally intended as a TV pilot, but after winning an award for it, he decided to alter the tone and presentation into something more workable as a TV program, the initial conception of which is shown in the images below.
He would like to continue the show, but since Moonscoop was dissolved, he's not sure who currently owns the IP and what they plan to do with it, if anything.
"Pinpin le Lapin" became "Bunny Maloney" due to the meddling of, quote, an "army of 40 year old Parisian mothers" who represented Moonscoop's executive board at the time. The name "Bunny Maloney" was chosen because they believed it would be more marketable to an American/English speaking audience. This "Mother's Mafia" is the entire reason that Bunny Maloney was watered down for a younger audience in the first place (although it certainly kept some of its edge).
And then he sent a bunch of pictures from the show's original pitch bible, which I believe has never been made public before!
First email + new Charlotte illustration
Follow up email:
+ unexpected twist that Charlotte was meant to be a sheep all along!
If anything this was my friends fault
For those of you who weren't around in the early days of the anime boom, you may not know that OnK briefly collabed with Panasonic to have Ai star in a handful of commercials advertising their SOLOTA countertop dishwashing machine. It seems like the official uploads of these ads have been taken down for some reason which meant a particular vid went missing - a cute, two hour lo-fi of Ai relaxing as her SOLOTA unit does her dishes. There's a few really cute snippets of character animation and Aqua and Ruby show up once or twice, so it was a shame for it to go missing!
@oshinohoshi reminded me that I'd managed to archive it before the official upload went down and just forgot to post it on tumblr, so here it is!
as someone who lives in Brazil this isn't aesthetic at all💀💀i fckin DESPISE the mess of pole cables everywher
very girl slay when an electric pole has a million wires all tangled up around it
yup bluh bluh
Bruh
Second part of your url is a valid warrior cats name
OMG really? so sorry it took so long to answer ya, but that's awesome actually, I never read Warrior Cats but I think it's pretty cool, I do love the Splash Star name
full team finished!
I love you, freshly baked Matcha
What if the Beasts and Ancients swapped?
Once a benevolent ruler who sought only prosperity for her people, Gilded Curd Cookie’s desire for wealth and progress festered into an insatiable hunger. What began as a golden age of prosperity spiraled into a relentless pursuit of expansion, ambitions eclipsing all else. Now, the Beast of Avarice sees all things as possessions to be claimed, gilded touch turning all she covets into golden shackles.
A warrior tempered by the flames of battle, Roasted Cayenne Cookie always leaves the battlefield with a brighter spirit, heedless of a winning outcome. With the blaze of an unyielding heart, the Light of Renewal finds ways to turn the remnants of destruction into fertile ground for new beginnings.
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i dont know what possessed me to make such banger designs compared to the previous two but god these go so hard. im definitely giving knowledge and volition redesigns in the future to look just as cool, but ill stick with them for now until i finish getting this au off the ground
previously: VOLITION
next up: HAPPINESS
I can't be the only one who call the new Tokyo Mew Mew anime simply "Tokyo Mew NEW"
like.. they lost such a good naming opportunity there cmon
hiiii I'm Nekomorius Nyampharos Hydrangea🇧🇷 I draw whatever interests me in the moment and im stuck on this damn forsaken planet.
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