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Early days,
real voices
The first episode exists end to end as a storyboard animatic. Everything below it is the development work that got us there — animation tests and voice takes made while the show was still being figured out.
Episode 101
The Machine That
Wasn't a Map
The whole first episode, boarded and timed, with the voices in place. Seventeen minutes of pencil: Rome, a senator with a secret, an orrery that turns out not to be a map, and a great deal of sand.
Boards, timing and dialogue — the episode as it will be cut, before a frame of it is animated. This is the version the whole crew works from.
First look
Seven seconds
in colour
The first time the two of them existed in the same shot. Ham skipping down a market street with Bim on his shoulder — the whole show in seven seconds.
The voices
This is the part
the whole thing is for
Isabel is six. She voiced a line on Star Trek with her dad, decided that was the job, and has not stopped since. Her brother Henry plays Bim.
Six years old, first character she has ever originated, and she gets the read on the second take.
Henry — nicknamed Ham Bone, which is where the title came from — playing a potato bug who does not use words.
Character tests
Three of them,
moving for the first time
In the workshop, mid-experiment, surrounded by apparatus a thousand years early.
Walk cycle, roll cycle, and one very good potato.
The senator, at home among the marble and the purple, being enormously pleased with himself.
Where it will live
Coming to YouTube Kids
Every episode will publish as Made for Kids, which means no comments, no personalised advertising, and a viewing experience built for the age group the show is written for. The channel is not open yet — this site is where it gets announced.