A new Nigerian cartoon for toddlers, preschool and kindergarten children will be going on air in October 2010. The cartoon is called Bino and Fino and the pilot episode is what will be aired. It’s meant to be fun and educational.As the creators we’d love your feedback, especially as parents. Children’s media is very powerful and we believe that it is important that we have content that comes from Nigeria/Sub Saharan Africa that our young children watch too.
Here a link to the animation blog  http://binoandfino./   

UPDATE:
Here is the 1st episode. It's an episode based around African countries and independence. Here's the facebook page so you can see what other's have had to say. http://www.facebook.com/binoandfino  . We'd love your feedback.

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Hmmm. . . Will this air in the US? I'd like to take a look at it. Ummm, if they're Nigerian, then why is the woman wearing kente cloth?

@Inked_Nerd Yes, you are correct. But we want it to have a wider appeal. So even though we're based in Nigeria we'll be featuring things from all over Africa. I think the title of my post could be a bit misleading. Look it more as Nigerian based but African at heart. But that's the kind of feedback we need. We have a tight budget but we want to make this as good as possible.

It will air on our Youtube page. We are also talking to NTA and AIT to air it in October as well.

Thanks

Ok, thank you for the clarification. Seems like a wonderful idea. Wish I had African themed shows when I was little. I will be on the lookout for this. One thing though that caught my attention was the little girl. Her eyes sorta give her a mischievous look. It would be cool if you could show a storyboard template on how the production of this cartoon is put together.

You've got a good eye. She is indeed a little bit naughty but more curious. Her name's Fino. Regarding behind the scenes info, we're doing that. We are showing sketches, storyboards pictures and we are also asking for thoughts and feedback. http://binoandfino./ and Bino an Fino are on facebook too at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Bino-and-Fino/122180064481166 . thanks again and please spread the word.

Good luck with it.
Hopefully it will be a very successful one

Thank you very much.

In fact the project will not be a success without the participation of the public. We want to make a series that people will want to buy. That's why we're doing a pilot episode so people can watch it and tell us what they think. Good or bad, we don't mind. So tell any parents you know about us. We really want this series to be of value to people.

We don't have a high budget so we don't have access to market research and data.The best way around that is to talk to the people who we want to buy the cartoon.

Graet idea guys! Keep up the good work. I'm supporting you all the way! Where can we see a sample clip with voices?

@Romeo4real Thank you very much. We’ve tried our best to make sure people can get information about Bino and Fino from many online sources.
Please tell more people about us.
Here’s the blog. http://binoandfino./    Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Bino-and-Fino/122180064481166?ref=ts

Here's a Youtube video giving more info about the project.
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Hi everyone. We’re launching Bino & Fino, the brand new African cartoon from Nigeria for young children. The pilot episode will be screened online tomorrow right here on the Facebook channel http://www.facebook.com/binoandfino at 1:00pm Western African Time. I’ll post up the video here but the video will be released here 1st on the Facebook page. We'd love it if some of you could watch the video to see if it's something you'd like your children to watch. Thanks.

In case the update above was missed, here's the first episode of the Bino & Fino cartoon. We'd love your thoughts and feedback.

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I like the animation, but not so sure about the content.
I don't know what the age range target is but for the kids I've been in close contact with,
they all prefer animation where the characters sound like them. . .if you get what I mean.
Using an Adult's voice here may not be the best.

Hi Gamine,
I understand your comment regarding the voiceover on the cartoon. We’ve had an interesting reaction to that. I’d say 60/40 against though most parents liked the cartoon itself. So we’re looking into it. Thank you for your feedback.

@ Inked Nerd. We’d love the cartoon to show in many regions such as US and Europe but we’re being realistic and taking small steps. We want to make sure we can deliver first and that we have a product that enough people like and want to buy and watch. So we’re focusing on the Nigerian/African market, which itself is potentially large. Actually that’s where we really want to service as we don’t have many cartoons catering for our kids.
Beyond that we have Africans in Diaspora who want to show something from home to their kids. And after that, whoever’s interested. We haven’t released the DVD and made one sale yet. Until we do so I don’t want to us to run before we can crawl!

By the way you said you joined the Facebook group. Your id on there isn’t Inked Nerd as well is it?

this is a good development

@ Inked Nerd Hmm, the mystery deepens. No problem, we'll keep it that way. It's nice to know you're supporting whichever ID you use!

@Damijohn Thank you very much.

^^ I know.

Anyways, watched it with my 'nephew' yesterday.(Age 2)
He was taken by the animation.
But the voice seemed to distract him a bit.
He looked confused but didn't want to take his eyes off the computer.lol

@ Gamine. Thanks for showing the cartoon to your nephew. Glad he liked some of it. So you know who Inked Nerd is on Facebook? Interesting.

@Inked Nerd looking forward to the hint. I have my ideas.

@ Inked_Nerd I thought I knew who you were but now I think I'm wrong. I'm going to do some major detective work to find out. As for the lips. We'll look at that again. The lip-sync will not be totally exact though.

Are you *******? That's my first guess.

Done. Good detective work though. You have to admit. You take care. And thanks for supporting the Bino and Fino cartoon.

The Bino and Fino cartoon was finally released online for sale in the US and Europe territories last week. Here’s the website http://www.binoandfino.com/ . We listened to the feedback on our pilot episode from parents and kids. The new episodes are improved and we hope to keep making them better for kids out there. We’ve had good reviews from those who have seen the new episodes.

So if you are looking for a true African educational cartoon for your children try us out.

We are also working hard to get the DVDs available in Nigeria.

Many thanks!

How cute!!!