"Angry Birds the Animated Series", set for this Fall

**Datleco** · 04-03-12

How do you make a storyline and a full animated series based on an app game??? I suppose character development and random plots...

Considering how much of a phenomenon "Angry Birds" has become -- you not only have the games themselves, but all kinds of merchandising tie-ins, including toys and apparel -- it's a surprise that there isn't already an animated series on the market.

Well, one is finally arriving, in autumn of this year, Rovio says.

According to a report by The Guardian, 52 episodes are currently in production. Each will be animated shorts, about two-and-a-half to three minutes long. Because of its low profile, Rovio is hoping that the show will arrive on a variety of devices, which will be distributed via an app that the game’s developer is also engineering.

Nick Dorra, Rovio's head of animation, says: "We're looking at building a video app for that, and we're also looking at partnerships and so on. ... We want to be on all screens."

As for those wondering what the show will be about, or for those skeptical that 52 episodes worth of exploits can be extrapolated from a game in which the premise is bare bones, even for a video game (use slingshot to catapult birds into structures built by pigs), Rovio has that covered.

"Angry Birds is not just about the gameplay, and will be in the future less and less about the slingshot, actually, and more and more about the characters," explains Dorra. "It's about telling more engaging stories ... and deeper thoughts, deeper feelings of the characters, such as why are they always angry?"

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Source: 'Angry Birds,' the animated series, set for this fall• - Ingame on msnbc.com

So for the Angry Birds addicts, you can rest easy knowing there's a new series based on it...

**SUPERYELLOW** · 04-03-12

Originally Posted by Datleco

How do you make a storyline and a full tv series based on an app game???

Source: 'Angry Birds,' the animated series, set for this fall• - Ingame on msnbc.com

So for the Angry Birds addicts, you can rest easy knowing there's a new TV series based on it...

I've known about this for weeks and I don't like the idea. I mean it's bad enough that everywhere I turn there is something to do with Angry birds, I mean they have heaps of merchandice in almost every store and they even have their own line of clothing that takes up half of where I go for clothes anywhere. I saw some 3 month old being carried around and he had a red bird suit and there are "FLOCKS" of birds walking all over the streets, I think Risso has gone to far.

**Datleco** · 04-03-12

Super Centers, Hot Topic, even Animé and game stores seem to have them. I understand it's a simple, fun, and addicting game but good god!

**mixedboi** · 04-03-12

I think they went too far when they started making Angry Bird clothing. Now an animated series? Good luck with that. I know they're milking this but c'mon...The game was only popular for a little period of time. I don't even hear about the game anymore.