Post-production Supervision,
Baby Einstein Animated Series
Client
Driver Studios / Baby Einstein
Year
2019 — 2021
Background
Through Driver Studios, I supervised the end-to-end production of five original animated series for Baby Einstein's YouTube and Roku channels, later distributed on Amazon Prime Video: Patch's Number Forest, Manners Manor, Sandbox, Counting with Earl, and Cal's Sound Yard. Over three years, the relationship grew from a single series to four consecutive contract renewals — delivering 180+ minutes of finished animation to one of the most recognized children's content brands in the world.
I was involved in every aspect of the production, from sourcing talent like illustrators and animators, to managing stakeholders directly and supervising revisions rounds.
What I did
I built the coordination infrastructure that five global animation studios, using four software environments, and three concurrent production stages from diverging. That meant SOP libraries with annotated image and video references for character rigging, animation style, and background illustration. Detailed enough that a studio in Southeast Asia and one in Latin America could produce scenes that cut together seamlessly. I implemented auto-updating Gantt charts to give our clients and all studios real-time visibility into where every episode stood across every stage.
By the time when the 2020 pandemic hit, we were already distributed. We didn't miss a single delivery.
Role
Post-Production Supervisor
Recognition
15M+ Accrued views
The challenge
Each series was produced across different animation studios spread across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, working in four different software environments: ToonBoom Harmony, Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects, and Moho Pro. Each tool has its own rigging system, which meant the same character could move, feel, and deform differently depending on who was animating it and where. Background illustrations were handled by different artists across seasons, adding another layer of consistency risk.
On top of consistency, the production schedule itself was the hardest constraint to manage. We implemented a agile methodology where each season ran as a single overlapping pipeline: while episodes 1–3 were in animation, episodes 4–6 were in animatics, and episodes 7–9 were in storyboard — simultaneously. Any consistency changes had to propagate across all three stages in real time. And because each studio was assigned every third episode — studio A did episodes 1, 4, and 7; studio B did 2, 5, and 8 — updates couldn't be communicated sequentially. Every change had to reach all studios at once.
Results
Before production for the first animated series had wrapped up, the client was already so delighted with the flow of the production and our strict adherence to deadlines and quality, that they greenlit a second one. The relationship went on for a total of 5 animated series that are now live on YouTube, Roku and Amazon Prime, some of which where additionally translated to multiple languages. The animated series I supervised have accrued over 15 Million views on YouTube alone.