Tom und das Erdbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig

Tom and strawberry jam bread with honey is a German animated series from the year 2005. The series was invented and drawn by the animator Andreas Hykade and studio film produced by Stuttgart animation film production images. Co - producer is the Southwest Broadcasting. The first season consisted of 13 episodes; starting in 2008 emerged three more seasons with 13 episodes.

Content

The hero of the five-minute films is Tom, who is always on the lookout for a strawberry jam sandwich with honey and in the end always gets exactly half a bread that it " tastes so good, as it would be a whole". On his search Tom meets regularly different friends. Most frequent types of diving:

  • The miller, Toms old friend, from whom he usually gets flour for his bread. His pet is a magical pig, which helps him at work,
  • His mother, of which he " delicious well water " gets to bake bread,
  • The poor little girl that Tom decreases every now and then half a loaf, but it sometimes is with helpful ideas to the side,
  • The strawberry mouse, proud and rather stingy owner of a large strawberry field
  • The crocodile, it is the friend of Tom and " internationally recognized Erdbeerquetscher ", " internationally recognized Bauchwegtrainer ," " internationally renowned crocodile scrubber ", " internationally recognized screws screwdriver " and so on,

From time to time Tom is also true:

  • The nice man who always speaks in rhymes and a real rascal is; his goal is always to Tom to steal the bread. He and the rest of the " nice family " are the only people who have a nose,
  • The Doctor, who lives in a box and pops out when you put in a coin,
  • The frogs, loud-mouthed Nimmersätte who sometimes even swallowed Tom and twisted everything. They are called Limbo, terms, Streipo, Grungo, Bongo, Schrumpfo, Flip, Flap and flop
  • Three fireflies out of the woods that sing and light up the way Tom. Each firefly feels lonely and alone,
  • Mine and Mona, the Motzer. The two bats are always bored and say, Tom was stupid,
  • His father.

Style

The basis for Tom movies drawings, which are traced with Flash software and then animated with the computer.

Image and style of the movies are simple: The representation of the environment is similar to a comic, two-dimensional. Also come with thought bubbles symbolic content for use. All surfaces are colored monochrome and without gradients. The figures and objects are also two-dimensional design, with simplified bodies whose extremities are drawn about Tom only with simple strokes. Most of the characters have no nose and no fingers.

The films always have in common, for example, almost every movie starts with the introduction of "One day Tom thought of a delicious strawberry jam bread with honey. He went for a walk, but the strawberry jam bread with honey did not want to go out of his head. " Then his search always begins at the mill. As already mentioned, has Tom end up looking only half a strawberry jam sandwich with honey, but it tastes him no less good. If a person Tom has given a notice for his next ingredient, cheers Tom: " Tom thought that was a wonderful idea ." He concludes his day always where he got the last ingredient for his living ( a field of flowers, the roof of his mother's house ... ), and is " perfectly happy ", which is symbolized by an empty thought bubble.

In each episode repeat itself gestures and body language when Tom and the other protagonists. For example, the Müller will always be greeted with the same High five and adopted and will always shown from the same viewpoint. Also, sounds and music are specific to all venues and are maintained in all sequences, variations are possible. Dirk Bach spoke in German synchronization of the narrator and all characters of the films with different pitch and emphasis.

Broadcast

Tom and strawberry jam bread with honey runs either as a standalone series at KI.KA every Sunday at 10:25 Clock, The First and the SWR television as well as an episode in the program with the mouse. The TV episodes are accompanied by two interactive online movies and games to play to each double row. In addition, viewers can every week choose their favorite episode, which is also shown on the internet.

Reception

" It is also noteworthy that the films of Tom four years have a permanent place on television, but were born on the Internet. This show continues to be the interactive movies the particular strength of the medium web - and teach the children the way first knowledge of interactive media use "

Awards

  • Animago Award, best interactive short film, FMX Stuttgart, 2003
  • Special Jury Mention, Festival of Animated Film Terebon, 2004
  • Multimedia Special Mention, Avanca, 2004
  • Ratings of "highly valuable", FBW Wiesbaden 2004
  • Grimme Online Award 2009 for www.kindernetz.de / tom
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