The Apprentice: Animation Studio Task with BBC

The Apprentice is compulsory viewing at Hocus Pocus Studio, both in the office and at home. It's a cracking family-friendly show where everyone hones their commercial and fashion skills way beyond what's possible with a Stanford MBA or sojourn in Milan. If you don't like it, you don't get it.

So just IMAGINE the team's reaction when the email dropped asking if Hocus Pocus might be interested in being the animation studio to pair with a mysterious BBC prime-time business show. The only possible answer was YES SIRALUN SORRY LORD SUGAR.

The episode task was for the teams to devise, design and make a sample animation for a new kids TV show. In a day. This would normally take the studio several months, so it was a pretty tall order for a gang of suited rookies.

The big challenge was getting some of the studio's best talent (Katy, Rob, Tom & Chris) to work on the job while not being able to actually direct the teams. The role of the artist in this type of show is simply to execute the wishes of the candidates, remaining silent on typos, colour schemes or even missing hands and feet on the characters!

How did they get on? If you didn't watch it live on BBC One, have a watch on iPlayer. It was such fun to work on and celebrate this piece of history with the BBC. Along the way, the team managed to work with David Jason, Jessie Wallace, Craig Revel Horwood, Karen Brady, Tim Campbell and even the king of bad jokes Lord Sugar himself.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001h9sl/the-apprentice-series-17-3-cartoons