Daft Planet is a Canadian cartoon, first airing on Teletoon. The first
episode ran on September 2, 2002 and the show continued to run for
almost two years even though only 13 episodes were produced. Its main
claim to fame is that it was the first cartoon in the world that was
animated entirely in Flash and appeared on a national television
network. The show met with some success but was taken off the air when
funding ran out due to cuts to the CTF program. The show was born from
a 10-minute pilot written and animated by Brent Donnelly and Derry
Smith and produced by Valis Video (Toronto). The pilot can be viewed
on YouTube along with some aired episodes of Daft Planet.The plot, set
in the fictional Maple City, encircles the day-to-day lives of the
protagonists, Ched and Hudson, in their on-going struggle to keep up
with the latest trends and maintain their positions in the social
hierarchy in high school. With Ched living from a trailer park, as the
son of a taxidermist and Hudson as the son of a wealthy network
executive, a parallel is drawn between the two characters, offering
unlikely chemistry. No one in the show has necks, and their heads just
float over their bodies, but this is never mentioned and they have no
apparent difficulty doing things that would require necks, like eating
or breathing.
episode ran on September 2, 2002 and the show continued to run for
almost two years even though only 13 episodes were produced. Its main
claim to fame is that it was the first cartoon in the world that was
animated entirely in Flash and appeared on a national television
network. The show met with some success but was taken off the air when
funding ran out due to cuts to the CTF program. The show was born from
a 10-minute pilot written and animated by Brent Donnelly and Derry
Smith and produced by Valis Video (Toronto). The pilot can be viewed
on YouTube along with some aired episodes of Daft Planet.The plot, set
in the fictional Maple City, encircles the day-to-day lives of the
protagonists, Ched and Hudson, in their on-going struggle to keep up
with the latest trends and maintain their positions in the social
hierarchy in high school. With Ched living from a trailer park, as the
son of a taxidermist and Hudson as the son of a wealthy network
executive, a parallel is drawn between the two characters, offering
unlikely chemistry. No one in the show has necks, and their heads just
float over their bodies, but this is never mentioned and they have no
apparent difficulty doing things that would require necks, like eating
or breathing.
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