After Teddy Ruxpin was finished, we started working on a show called Y's The Magnificent (pronounced "Yees"). It was a coproduction with a studio from France. The show was never aired here, only in Europe. I was an animator on the show. There were only 7 shows I think... maybe 14, I can't remember.
After Y's, we did a half hour special called The Meerkats. Again, I was an animator on the show. After this production, the studio got the Dennis The Menace show to do. I was not happy working on this show at all. I was in the layout department at the time.
Luckily (or unluckily, depending on how you look at it) I got a call to come back to Nelvana to work on a show called "Ultra Cross" as the layout supervisor. I took the job and moved back to Toronto.
The show was pulled from production as we were working on show 4 because the toy company that was the financial backer went bankrupt. I remeber, we were working on some of the designs when one of the studio owners walked in with a box and started shovelling all the artwork into it. We asked him what was going on and he told us what had happened. I asked him what we were supposed to work on next and as he walked out of the room he looked back with a smile and said, "We have another season of Care Bears to do." That was actually why I had quit from Nelvana 2 years before... Yay!
The Care Bears saga is a topic for another day.
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