Peter Huggan was part of the pre-production staff for Arthur and its spin-off, Postcards from Buster at the Cookie Jar Group (previously known as CINAR) in Canada since the very first produced episode, "D.W.'s Imaginary Friend" in 1995. He is also credited for being the Storyboard Supervisor for Seasons 4-8 and for Storyboarding "Prunella Gets it Twice" in 1999. He was also the Animation Supervisor in Korea for Season 5.
Example of pre-production sketch (artist unknown)
As a pre-production staff member, Huggan's job was to draw backgrounds and layout poses of characters and moving objects plus outlining their movements, based on storyboards, so that they can be fully animated by AKOM.
Personal experience[]
Huggan recounts being tasked with drawing the rotating carousel scenes in "D.W.'s Imaginary Friend" in 1995, mentioning how difficult it was to animate and how efforts to get them approved took over a month. Pay for pre-production of the scene was fairly low.[1]
The "carousel scenes" by Peter Huggan (From "D.W.'s Imaginary Friend")
Episode credits[]
- 406b. Prunella Gets it Twice (with Michel Magnan)
- Storyboard Supervisor for Seasons 4 - 8
- Layout and Posing Artist for Season 1 - 2
- Layout Supervisor for Season 3
- Animation Supervisor in Korea for Season 6
Other works[]
- Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat
- Inspector Gadget
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (TV show)
- Pig City
- Superkitties