TRICK 3D & Discovery Kids Latin America Ready The Jolliest Elf

TRICK 3D and Discovery Kids Latin America have inked a co-production agreement for the animated talent competition series The Jolliest Elf.

In season one of the series, five contestants from across Santa’s Village in the North Pole will compete on stage to win the title of Jolliest Elf. Mr. Jingles hosts The Jolliest Elf, which features a trio of judges: the glamorous and talented Glo; the hard-to-please critic Tiny; and the lovable and encouraging Frosty.

Viewers will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite contestants as episodes release, and votes will be tallied before the final episode to reveal the winner. The Jolliest Elf’s 12×7-minute episodes are being created using real-time animation powered by Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.

As part of the agreement, Discovery Kids will hold exclusive media rights for all of Latin America and the Caribbean. Cookbook Media, which brokered the agreement, is distributing all media rights in the rest of the world for the series.

TRICK 3D Founder Chad Eikhoff said: “I am extremely excited to be using real-time animation to share some of the North Pole’s finest talent with families this Christmas season. The North Pole wanted to open their only competition show, The Jolliest Elf, for the rest of the world to participate, so we leveraged all the latest technology and added some Christmas magic to allow families to watch and vote for their favorites this season.”

Flavio Medeiros, director of program sourcing and acquisitions at Discovery Kids, said: “We found in The Jolliest Elf a great opportunity to bring an innovative, fun and heart-lifting competition series to Discovery Kids. It was very exciting to work with Chad, TRICK 3D and the North Pole teams in this unique show that will surprise our viewers in Latin America this holiday season.”

Claudia Scott-Hansen, co-founder of Cookbook Media, said: “We love the combination of the heart and warmth of a traditional Christmas special, with the tune-in appeal of a talent competition series. As such, we’re working to build this IP into a perennial holiday franchise through brand activation, content strategy, distribution, consumer products, live events and more. This property has high commercial appeal and also the exciting potential of new performers each Christmas season.”