IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!
Welcome to the Urban Jungle, where Tales of the City meets Aesop’s Fables - ANIMATED.
Crafted with a hybrid use of traditional stop motion and cutting edge 3d animation, each episode runs about 15 minutes but with interconnecting stories epic in scale and emotion.
Urban Jungle exposes the animal nature of humans by revealing the humanity in animals. That’s right, we’re 100% Animal. Humans exit stage right -
In SEASON ONE we stalk the sun-bleached streets of Los Angeles where dreams do come true, but others wind up roadkill.
New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Rome, Rio, Johannesburg, Sydney… future season opportunities are endless.
Every one-legged pigeon and pampered Papillion purse dog has a tale to tell but in Season one we’ve narrowed it down to 10 of the best.
Explore their stories through the DROP DOWN MENU above to get a sense of overall arc of the show; how our characters interweave; how each story impacts on another, with tones by turn funny, moving, exciting, exhilarating, but above all entertaining. Because? Talking animals! Come on.
Laws of the Jungle
How does this urban world work? We’ve come up with a few key rules to make sense of an environment where animals are more human than humans.
Call them the Peter Rabbit rules – remember Peter’s cute little coat? Similar idea only this ain’t Mr. McGregor’s farm, Dorothy. Our animals appropriate real world objects to adorn themselves like humans, so charm bracelets become hip-hop bling and six pack rings become mesh vests.
Behavioral traits unique to a species of animal become personality traits, i.e. a duck’s quacking becomes a character who repeats itself endlessly. (Why “dinner with a duck” is common slang in the jungle for something REALLY boring.)
They’ll have the power of speech with acid tongues to match.
“Don’t be such a deer”.
That’s a common put down used by ALL animals: ‘Cos the deer is universally considered genuinely stupid.
Humans, known as Hind Legs are the Deus ex Machina of the jungle. Rarely heard like grownups in Peanuts cartoons, fleetingly seen only shadow or silhouette, the consequences of their actions are like storms conjured by Greek Gods, mysterious, unpredictable and sometimes life-changing.