“It has this rich, layered, interesting feel like you’re in your backyard peering through blades of grass, and a dandelion might be the size of a tree. Frog and Toad is based on the Caldecott and Newbery Honor-winning four-book series by Arnold Lobel and features the voices of Nat Faxon & Kevin Michael Richardson in the title roles, as well as Ron.
“It feels like a world you’re peering into,” he explains. He likens some of those visuals to looking into a diorama, where you’ve got a limited perspective and sense of parallax and layering with characters that aren’t created to human scale. “But you always want to have dynamic visuals, interplay between the characters, movement, action… the subtle camerawork.” “You set up the scene and allow the characters to live within the frame, which is keeping with the books,” Hoegee said. One of the biggest challenges in adapting “Frog and Toad” in this way for modern audiences, however, is keeping things moving and interesting. Some episodes contained as few as 45 to 50 shots, compared to a typical preschool animation series, which Hoegee said could have 60 to 70 shots per episode-maybe more depending on the show. The showrunner adds that when you have simple stories (“Frog and Toad” is targeted at early readers), you can dive into a scene and let the subtleties emerge.
We’re able to take trees and rocks and bushes, landscape elements, and interchange them to create almost an infinite amount of environments.” “Since this show takes place outdoors, we were able to vary our backgrounds a lot by having foreground elements, midground elements and background elements we could mix and match.
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