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EXCLUSIVE: AI Studio Staircase Studios AI and Made by Us Studios are teaming connected a associated task to create and nutrient Ollie nan Octopus, an animated children’s bid centered connected social-emotional learning for kids ages 4–8.
Based connected an original thought by Made by US Co-CEO Tanya Cohen, pinch communicative and characters by Chela Reyna and Dr. Simonne Cohen, nan bid is group successful nan vibrant underwater world of Octlantis and follows Ollie — a young octopus pinch a typical gift: erstwhile he becomes emotionally triggered, each of his 8 arms lights up pinch colors to correspond a different emotion — anger, jealousy, sadness, fear, happiness, and more.
Together pinch his family and friends, Ollie learns to flooded challenges and understand really his feelings style his acquisition of nan world. Each section introduces clinically-grounded affectional regularisation devices — including Bubble Breaths, a Calm Cave, and a Reset Button — designed not only to entertain but to springiness young viewers existent skills they tin transportation into regular life.
The bid program has been developed successful consultation pinch kid scientist Dr. Simonne Cohen, and is designed to meet nan golden modular successful safe, evidence-based integer improvement for young audiences.
Ollie nan Octopus launches pinch 1 of nan largest creator-led distribution footprints successful children’s animation. Forbes and Rolling Stone Top Creator Adam Waheed aka Adam W (68.5M followers), award-winning drama creator Hannah Stocking (74.8M followers), and apical creator Anwar Jibawi (83M) are amongst nan talent attached arsenic featured voices and will anchor nan promotional run crossed their platforms.
Made By Us will denote further sound talent formed for nan bid from their customer roster, which includes immoderate of today’s astir influential, award-winning creators. The afloat lineup represents a mixed scope of 629.6 cardinal followers crossed TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.
“We’re dedicated to building meaningful projects that meet audiences wherever they are,” said Leanne Perice and Tanya Cohen, Co-CEOs of Made By Us Studios. “Ollie nan Octopus reflects wherever contented is headed: built pinch creators and designed for really audiences prosecute pinch intermezo today. We judge today’s astir impactful stories are shaped successful collaboration pinch creators and nan communities they influence.”
The bid is being produced arsenic a associated task betwixt Staircase Studios AI and Made by Us Studios utilizing Staircase’s Studio Omni accumulation platform. Studio Omni,publicly launched this month, is Staircase’s all-in-one ‘Hollywood workplace successful a box’ combining precocious AI toolkits pinch nonstop entree to moving Hollywood talent. Every accumulation is union-compliant, pinch quality writers, directors, actors, artists, and musicians astatine nan halfway of nan imaginative process.
“Ollie is precisely nan type of location tally task we person been building towards complete nan past 18 months,” said Pouya Shahbazian, laminitis and CEO of Staircase Studios AI. “With our speed, efficiency, and quality, we tin deed nan standards of Hollywood bid while bypassing nan bequest bottlenecks that traditionally stall high-quality animation. For us, Ollie and Studio Omni are nan cleanable pairing of a franchise and a franchise-generating machine.”
