Skyland

Earlier today, while mostly channel surfing and watching tv in passing, I came across a few minutes of an entirely new and simply stunning cartoon on TeleToon. It looked like a modern, pretty anime, with Ghost In The Shell-ish CGI against lusicious Howl's Moving Castle-esque landscapes. Add in characters and a story line that seemed to suspiciously give an air of space piratetry, and I was immediately sold.

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to watch the show for long, or even catch it's name, so I took note of the time slot with a promise to investigate further, later. So, here I am, finding scant information about this new show called Skyland. The show is a joint production between Canada and France, using what appears to be top of the line tricks of the trade, while paying careful tribute to the genres it steals from.

The official site is most definately worth a visit, and the trailer is especially worth viewing. The show is premiering this month in Canada on TeleToon, but unfortunately doesn't seem to be reaching American television until April 2006. I've had a difficult time finding any information on the animators, the voice actors, the soundtrack, etc, in fact, at this point, TeleToon doesn't even have the show's time slot posted on their website.

I'm going to keep my eye out for it, and will hopefully have positive things to say about it in the near future. I don't want to go too far out on a limb with my praise so far - lord knows that even the most beautiful of animations can easily be destroyed by horrible plot lines, character development, or voice acting.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.