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When The Barefoot Bandits began airing on New Zealand television earlier this year, it was one of a very few number of animated series to be made in that country. Others such as the adult-oriented bro ...

Canadian prodco Mercury Filmworks and New Zealand-based animation studio Mukpuddy have teamed up to coproduce a TV adaptation of British writer and comedian Spike Milligan’s 1973 children’s book ...

Film stars Temuera Morrison and Rhys Darby are working on a new locally made animated TV show. Kiwi animation company Mukpuddy is producing The Barefoot Bandits, a colourful family adventure series ...

The three founders of Mukpuddy started their studio in a New Zealand basement in 2002. Now they’ve got a tv series.

For over 50 years Spike Milligan’s deliciously pernicious witch Badjelly the Witch has been hugely popular in New Zealand. Originally a short, handwritten story Milligan wrote for his children, it was ...

I recently interviewed New Zealand based independent animators Alex Leighton, Ryan Cooper, and Tim Evans, who are better known as Mukpuddy. We talk about some of their past projects, their new cartoon ...

Mukpuddy Animation is a production company involved in British comedy.

The animated kids’ series Badjelly has been picked up for the U.K. by ITV. Based on the book Badjelly the Witch: A Fairy Story by comedian Spike Milligan, the series is produced by New Zealand’s ...

Mercury Filmworks’ co-production partner for the series and special is Mukpuddy, a multi-award-winning animation studio based in Auckland, New Zealand, who acquired the rights to the book from ...