Spanish football club Barcelona has continued its original content drive through its new Barca Studios division by announcing the launch of its first animated series. The club is teaming up with Sony Music Latin Iberia for its first animation project, Talent Explorers. The series is being produced under a strategic agreement signed with Sony Music in August to create unique entertainment experiences and promote ideas that connect music and sport.
Talent Explorers will be delivered in two formats, with 11-minute episodes to be shown by conventional platforms and broadcasters, and two-minute episodes to be distributed on digital channels like YouTube. The series stars 15-year-old human boy Max, kindhearted Roc the bear, and Lynds, a tech-savvy pink kitten. This motley crew travel the world searching for the next generation of soccer stars with their “talent meters” and other gadgets. In a teaser released Friday (set to “Tengo un sueño” by Spanish group Estopa), the gang discovers a six-year-old American girl named Lyli with a preternatural gift for dribbling the ball and performing Neymar-like tricks.
Written by Tab Murphy (Tarzan, Brother Bear, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Teen Titans), Jorge Blanco, the director of Spain’s home-grown animation, Planet 51 and Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible, will serve as creative director on the series.
