NOAH

INTRODUCING
NOAH
TO YOU

Noah is a new adult comedy about a young toddler and his adoring parents, his dog and his punk baby sitter. Think Family Guy’s Stewie, with hints Maggie Simpson and Boss Baby! Noah is the first new character we're exploring in his world. He's an annoying toddler who is endured by everybody and loved only by his not-so-long-suffering mum and dad. We're building a funny but edgy world based around Noah, and we'd love you to join us. Help shape Noah's destiny by becoming a founding fan, and watch him grow!

Look out for the Animation Competition launching October 31st with fabulous prizes including exclusive physical collectables and scholarships to online courses with Animation Mentor and New York University. Open to animators of all levels!

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Who is Noah?

Noah is too cute.

Noah's parents read all the "right" parenting books and he is the result. This comedy gives us all the comic relief to join in laughing at the result of well-intentioned (toxically positive parenting?).

Noah's parents are competitive and secretly furious. Noah is their inevitable offspring: a toddler with adult-sized opinions, a seeming poor grasp of language, and a dummy the size of a plate, which he sucks like a tragically dependent vaper.

OCTOBER 2026

Animation Competition

One toddler. Eleven seconds. Launching end of October with awesome prizes & judges.

Why?

We're building a new adult comedy IP and actively want to open the process up to the creative community.

This will allow us to develop 'Noah' in collaboration with the best animators and find a shortlist animators who we can call on if and when Noah gets funded. We have seriously invested time and energy in, writing, voice acting and recording, character design, modelling and rigging to provide professional assets for you to work with alongside dailies run as normal in a remote studio setting.

What?

We want to you to do you best work using the assets we provide. We have designed 4 shorts, to run at approximately 11 seconds. Each shot is voiced by professional actors. You are free to design the cinemaphotography however you like. This shot will be one for your demo reel. Play with Noah and bring him to life, using your own unique style.

Who?

This competition is open to all animators. 2D or 3D, student or veteran. As long as you can bring Noah to life, you are welcome.

Nene Parsotam

Meet the judge

Nene Parsotam

Nene is a creative leader, podcaster, problem solver, storyteller, collaborator, hyper nerd, and polymath. For two decades Nene has shaped creative work for some of the world's most demanding and well known brands including HBO, Amazon, Disney, Dove, Shea Moisture, Dior, Sony, Cadbury's, Jaguar, Sky, Lloyds, HP and many more.

Besides being just an absolute legend, she has a ton of industry recognition behind her and we're so proud that she has agreed to be part of this project. Thank you Nene!

Some of her industry recognition includes:

  • Cannes Lions Industry Craft Jury Member: 2025, 2019
  • Adobe Firefly / Boards Consultancy Focus Group: 2025
  • D&AD Professional Awards, Direct/Digital Judge: 2024, 2018
  • Executive Creative Director, D&AD Shift London: 2025, 2024, 2023
  • Ad Week, Profiles in Black Creativity: 2022
  • D&AD New Blood Jury President, 21 Grams: 2021
  • Dubai Lynx Outdoor & Direct Jury: 2021
  • United Nations Women Unstereotype Alliance Speaker: 2021
  • Eurobest Industry Design, Print & Outdoor Craft Jury: 2018
  • Tech Nation, Top 50 Influential Black Voices in Tech: 2020
Sam Cundall

Meet the judge

Sam Cundall

The ‘emoji guy’. Yes, Sam leads the team for some of the world's most well known animated emojis and to add him to our judges panel is fantastic.

Sam is currently Principal Creative Design for Microsoft Teams where he specialises in design, animation, motion, visual language and marketing. He's an animator and creative director, leading emotions, reactions, and other personal expression content. 😉

Sam is always looking at creating experiences that are more relevant, appealing and fun! for customers.

LIVE ON ZOOM

Come to the info session.

Friday 23rd October

  • 7:00 PM UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)
  • 9:00 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time)
  • 12:00 PM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time / Los Angeles)

A live Zoom call, where we walk through the competition, show the Noah rigs and assets, and answer every question you throw at us; briefs, deadlines, formats, prizes, the lot. A recording of the call will be distributed to the email list so dont worry if you can't make it.

  • Full competition walkthrough
  • Live Q&A with the crew
  • Rig & asset demo

Big thanks to our competition sponsor

Hand-drawn Noah seated in a turquoise outfit with an oversized salmon pacifier

The Rigs

2D & 3D
rigs available

At the start of the competition, we will provide 3D and 2D rigs, distributed via Gumroad.

The crew

A small crew with
big references.

MADE BY

Animationfolk

ADVISORS FROM

ex-Prime Video / Disney
ex-DreamWorks
ex-Framestore / ILM

As well as folk from some of the best known studios on the planet, we have a scupltor working on a real world model of Noah. Because we believe that the craftsmanship and artistry of design and animation takes a leading role!

Joe Dollar-SmirnovCreative / ProducerLinkedIn ↗Nene ParsotamECD / Advisor / JudgeLinkedIn ↗Sam CundallJudgeLinkedIn ↗Luigi LucarelliCharacter DesignerLinkedIn ↗Aman BhanotAdvisorLinkedIn ↗Lisa GraydonActressLinkedIn ↗Neil BebberWriterLinkedIn ↗Sarah DollarWriterLinkedIn ↗BrollymanComposerLinkedIn ↗TomSculptor / ArtistLinkedIn ↗
Grayscale logo strip featuring Microsoft, Disney, Amazon Studios, Prime Video, Paramount, Meta, Hasbro, and DreamWorks

Community

Join the broadcast.
Not a group.

Updates, rig drops, competition news, and the occasional Noah-related emergency. A broadcast channel keeps the noise useful and the admin survivable.

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AI policy

We care about
the output.

Assistive AI is changing how everyone works and we know of super talented artists using AI tools to generate great content. Ultimately, we’re interested in quality, and our decisions will be based on quality of animation, storytelling and craft. Like many teams, we’re exploring assistive AI to help expand our capabilities. For example, we can run research tasks to find sponsors for this competition. Even this website was coded with the help of a coding assistant.. However, generative AI text-to-video does warrant a longer conversation. We want to be transparent and we want you to be transparent. If there is demand for entrants primarily using assitive AI tools we want to know about it and have that conversation so we can split the award categories across 3D, 2D and AI. If you are considering entering but will not because of this statement, we would also be very interested to hear about that view and have an open conversation about it. Please feel free to email us on team@noahtoddler.com

We value the hand, the eye, the odd choice, and the person behind it. Our standard is artistic integrity, not a purity test. Make good work. Be honest about how you made it.