Pocoyo "Umbrella, Umbrella!" (partially found early version of Spanish-British animated comedy TV series episode; late 2004)

The series' logo.

Status:
Lost

Pocoyo is a Spanish-British children's animated comedy TV series co-produced by Guillermo García Carsí, Colman López, Luis Gallego, and David Cantolla that premiered both on Clan TVE and CITV in 2005 and is still airing as of 2023.

The series consists of the characters Pocoyo, a four-year-old boy with a blue hat and clothes, Pato a duck with a small green hat, Elly a pink elephant with a blue backpack, Loula an orange dog and Sleepy Bird a teal-colored bird that almost always seen sleeping.

The early version

In the Pocoyo blog, in a post called Backgrounds, it's told to us that Zinkia finished the episode "Umbrella!" with a background which was completely green (with flowers, trees etc), but they removed the background and changed the episode due to the decision of using white backgrounds on all the episodes being made.

From here we will go straight to the journey we made to research how the backgrounds in series would be, something which took an enormous amount of work. After two months of tests and sleepless nights, experimenting with all types of backgrounds, fog as a tone, with clouds, without clouds, with many props, simple etc… we finally arrived at a compromise which we thought was best and we finished the first episode “umbrella, umbrella” with a background filled with trees, flowers and which was completely green!!! This is when the decision was made, without the background the difference to the episode was so huge (and let me tell you that the background we came up with was anything but bad!) that the decision was made to use white backgrounds on all the episodes apart from very few special occasions. (You have to understand that this decision lead to a backwards step of two months of production – or rather a lot of money and risk for the sake of trying out the proposal.)

Concept Art

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  The background which was possibly going to be used in the episode.

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  A storyboard of the early version with the background present.

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  Ditto but colored.

Footage

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  The storyboard but extended.

External Links

• The backgrounds post.
• The extended sotryboard.