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March 30th, 2009 11:53 AM by Aaron H. Bynum

A recently founded animation production studio with its own voice, Lincoln Butterfield has long since been ready to shout its cause to awaiting co-production and third-party distribution partners of its original content. The Burbank, California-based group is guided by animation industry veterans with plenty of knowledge of what makes cartoons a sequence of fun, confident connections between artist and viewer. For Lincoln Butterfield Animation & Production, smart and sophisticated animation keyed to multiple demographics is the name of the game.

LB Animation sports directors, series producers, and other development executives itching to offer the world market a slate of animation all audiences can enjoy. Launched at MIPCOM last fall, for example, was N.I.T.: Neighborhood Investigation Team; a series about three kid private-eyes don't bother to "waste their time with lemonade stands and paper routes" and instead opt for the seemingly unsolvable. With a host of unanswered mysteries floating around the neighborhood, a clever girl named Emma partners with two pals--Neville, a capable kid chemist, and Crunchy, the group's voice of reason--tagging themselves with the goal of investigating the town's most bemusing events.

Conceptualized by studio partner Robert Hughes (Rocko's Modern Life, Phineas and Ferb), Lincoln Butterfield's N.I.T.: Neighborhood Investigation Team also reportedly features design work by Mitch Schauer. In development alongside N.I.T. is the even more recently announced R.I.P. M.D., which itself comes from the mind of Schauer, creator of the animated comedy Angry Beavers.

The everyday, or rather, every-night adventures of a boy whose interest in honest-to-goodness, real, live monsters places him in the intriguing position of monster doctor. After stumbling onto a vampire bat that had injured itself on a thorn bush, the enterprising Ripley Plimpt chooses to help the little creature, fashioning a miniature splint for its damaged wing.

It is with this single act of kindness that a determined little boy with curiosity for things that go bump in the night quickly encounters a whole new world -- a world populated by the very monsters and beasts he knew, somehow somewhere, existed.

Word of Ripley's nimble doctor-like hands spreads fast among the shadows, and before he knows it, Ripley is unofficially anointed the fixer-upper of monsters of every shape and size. Not that he doesn't mind; after all, for every night as long as he could remember, the boy searched the cemetery behind his house in eager anticipation of something supernatural. As R.I.P. M.D. subsequently tracks Ripley, a quirky kid with a mind for monsters (accompanied by his in-security blanket and a rather strange cat), Lincoln Butterfield Animation & Production similarly goes on the prowl, ready to take their newest offerings to international audiences.

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