Abadas Is a British animated TV series which premiered on Cbeebies, S4C, RTE Jr And BBC Alba on 24th October 2011, It focuses on a 6-year-old boy Ben who has a cherished pop up book that lives 3 animated animals named Hari The Hippo, Ela The Fox and Seren The Bat, Before the show premiered in the UK, An unaired pilot was made somewhere in 2010 and was named The Wordles. Ela almost stayed the same while Hari and Seren Swapped their colors in the unaired pilot.
So far, only pieces of footage have been found on 2 animators reels, Krystal Georgiou was the lead animator for the unaired pilot, Luke Hyde also worked on the pilot along with the final show her 2011 and 2012 show-reels contains footage of the pilot but it has no audio, The picture of the pilot characters were on the "Abadas" button on the PlayKids app.
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EDIT: I found a video of The Abadas pilot, but there's no audio and It's 13 seconds. https://www.mediafire.com/file/vya6ufj41yiqgxq/13_Second_Footage_of_The_Abadas_Pilot.mp4/file
UPDATE 04/05/2021 More footage has been found! https://youtu.be/Sdq5tsFADgc
UPDATE 17/05/2022 A PDF by Luke Hyde, The pilots animator has been found. and shows that the pilot has been made by Flash CS4. https://www.lukehyde.co.uk/LukeHyde-CV_2011.pdf
Sources[]
- https://kidscreen.com/2010/09/29/dinamo-20100929/
- https://www.cynopsis.com/thursday-september-30th-2010-4/
- http://krystalo.blogspot.com/2011/10/abadas-now-on-cbeebies.html
- http://krystalo.blogspot.com/2013/01/still-here.html
- https://www.deanwilkinson.net/index.php/tv-and-radio/142-2010