{"id":25186,"date":"2023-05-25T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:29:09","slug":"kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenn Viselman &amp; Toonz Media Launch itsy bitsy Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenn Viselman (<em>MeteoHeroes<\/em>, <em>Teletubbies<\/em>) and his itsy bitsy Entertainment have partnered with Toonz Media Group to launch itsy bitsy Animation, with the first project being <em>Li\u2019l Pet Hospital<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of its origins, I am delighted <em>Li\u2019l Pet Hospita<\/em>l is the first project for this collaboration,\u201d Viselman said. \u201cFew people know that I was scheduled to be on one of the planes during 9\/11 and was miraculously rescheduled onto another flight. For weeks after, I experienced a pendulum of emotions going from complete joy to total sadness and everything in between and channeled those deeply personal feelings into <em>Li\u2019l Pet Hospital<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, the <em>Li\u2019l Pet Hospital<\/em> stories of empathy and compassion have sold hundreds of thousands of books and plush and I am now, with the help and strength of Toonz, finally ready to share these lovely, fun and funny animated stories with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a dream of mine to have a home for my work, and thanks to the inspiring and glorious team at Toonz that dream is now a reality,\u201d Viselman added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are convinced about the potential of Kenn Viselman\u2019s content and delighted to see the birth of itsy bitsy Animation, which will mark the beginning of a new episode for Kenn and Toonz,\u201d said P Jayakumar, CEO of Toonz Media Group. \u201cWe are excited to select <em>Li\u2019l Pet Hospital<\/em> as our first project and we both align on a common objective, which is making kids and family happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another aspect of the newly formed relationship between Toonz and itsy bitsy is that Toonz will be joining <em>MeteoHeroes<\/em>, ICEE, Atlanta Children\u2019s Film Festival and a number of other established brands on Viselman\u2019s newly formed online emporium itsy bitsy World of Wonders (itsybitsyWOW.com). It gives independent creators the opportunity to compete with mega-media conglomerates and reach out to their audiences directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe synergy is extraordinary,\u201d Viselman said. \u201cWe were able to put <em>MeteoHeroes<\/em> live on PBS Stations in California and simultaneously stream it on itsybitsyWOW.com for anyone else in the states or around the world who didn\u2019t have access. Fans of this groundbreaking series had an opportunity to find exclusive products that were not available at retail with a percentage of their purchase helping to save the planet. And audiences responded feverishly\u2026 literally crashing the site. I cannot wait to see what itsybitsyWOW.com can do with brilliant content from Toonz.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenn Viselman (MeteoHeroes, Teletubbies) and his itsy bitsy Entertainment have partnered with Toonz Media Group to launch itsy bitsy Animation, with the first project being Li\u2019l Pet Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":25187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[7778,6428,6429,7779,5777,1763],"class_list":["post-25186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-itsy-bitsy-animation","tag-itsy-bitsy-entertainment","tag-kenn-viselman","tag-lil-pet-hospital","tag-p-jayakumar","tag-toonz-media-group","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenn Viselman &amp; Toonz Media Launch itsy bitsy Animation - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenn Viselman &amp; Toonz Media Launch itsy bitsy Animation - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kenn Viselman (MeteoHeroes, Teletubbies) and his itsy bitsy Entertainment have partnered with Toonz Media Group to launch itsy bitsy Animation, with the first project being Li\u2019l Pet Hospital.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-25T14:14:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-25T14:29:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/itsybitsyEntertainment-LilPEtHospital-0523.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"338\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/\",\"name\":\"Kenn Viselman &amp; Toonz Media Launch itsy bitsy Animation - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-25T14:14:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-25T14:29:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/kenn-viselman-toonz-media-launch-itsy-bitsy-animation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kenn Viselman &amp; Toonz Media Launch itsy bitsy Animation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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