Friday, April 13, 2012

Video Of Nickelodeon UK's New "SpongeBob's Top 100" Promo

Below is a high quality (HQ) high definition (HD) streaming video and transcript of Nickelodeon UK's brand new "SpongeBob's Top 100" promo/trailer, which Nickelodeon UK is currently broadcasting across Nickelodeon UK's channels to advertise and promote Nickelodeon UK's latest "SpongeBob SquarePants" themed Nickelodeon Programming Stunt called "SpongeBob's Top 100", which Nickelodeon UK is holding to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in June 2012, which will be marking 60 years of The Queen's reign.

Nickelodeon UK's "SpongeBob's Top 100" promo features The Queen (using her stately voice), telling Nickelodeon viewers about Nick UK's "SpongeBob's Top 100" while the camera pans through her Royal palace, which unveils many artworks featuring everybody's favourite sponge, SpongeBob, including SpongeBob SquarePants paintings (from most eras), and SpongeBob SquarePants statues, including a giant gold SpongeBob SquarePants statue of SpongeBob holding a golden Spatula and a Golden shield, to the background music of The Ren & Stimpy Show's "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" Anthem the British national anthem "God Save the Queen". Nickelodeon UK's "SpongeBob's Top 100" trailer was made by the award winning UK based computer animation studio Blue-Zoo Productions [Nick Jr. Channel UK's "Olive The Ostrich"].

SpongeBob's Top 100 from Blue Zoo on Vimeo.

In celebration of the Jubilee weekend we created the somewhat epically regal SpongeBob Promo for Nickelodeon.

Blue Zoo

Animation Directors: Dave Hunt and Damian Hook
Modelling and Texturing: Dave Hunt and Jonathan Reid
Lighting and Rendering: Dave Hunt, Jonathan Reid and Charles Batho
Compositing: Dave Hunt and Jonathan Reid

Nickelodeon

Art Director: Akin Akinsiku
Creative Producers: Derek Best and John Preston [Director of On Air Promotions & Planning at Nickelodeon UK]

This year, Nickelodeon are celebrating the Barron of the bottom, the Prince of the Pineapple, the King of the Krabby Patty...

[camera shakes]

Would you mind, Barry?

Err Erm

...by searching for Britain's favourite episodes in SpongeBob's Top 100.

So get off your barnacles and head to nick.co.uk/spongebob to vote for your favourite episodes.

SpongeBob's Top 100, celebrating Britain's Best of the Bottom!

[Passes wind]

Oh, pardon me.

[SpongeBob SquarePants laughs and giggles]
You can find out more information about Nickelodeon UK's "SpongeBob's Top 100" programming stunt in this Nickelodeon blog post here on NickALive!.