VOOZ

VOOZ logo.

VOOZ (부즈, Bujeu) is a South Korean company responsible for the creation of Pucca. The company specializes in creating characters for its trade, and is led by Boo Kyoung Kim and Calvin Kim.

History

The idea of Pucca was back in 1999 as a university project, but didn't make an official appearance until the next year of its creation. Originally, Pucca was an "animated online e-card service" made in 2000 by the company VOOZ, the original e-card service being www.postnut.com. The popularity of the e-card increased so rapidly in both Korea and the rest of Asia that it was licensed by Jetix Europe in 2004, who also acquired television rights for the service. VOOZ went on to continue working with Jetix Europe, making the original two and a half minute long animated shorts, which were then aired on both the Jetix website and as in-between full cartoon show shorts on the Jetix television channel. Pucca shorts were also often featured on the channel for MTV.

Puccacreators — Calvin Kim (left) and Boo Kyoung Kim (right)

More episodes were ordered by Jetix Europe after the success of the initial shorts, with Studio B Productions in charge of making them. The new episodes became more fleshed out to depict Pucca as being a real television series, with more extensive plot being involved and some of the non-speaking characters gaining voices, along with the length of the episodes being extended to seven minutes in total. The new episodes were shown on many of Jetix's worldwide channels.

Other projects from VOOZ include Pupu: Daydreamer's Club, Dooby & Rooby Rolling Bear, Dory & Boogy (also known as Dory & Boogy: Fighting Boogy), Nei & Shu, Mura: Military Pigs (later known as Mudio: Lucky Pigs), Animalcraft, Sideboy, Shoah, Dogfight!, Metalion, Abyo: Dragon Boy, MIYA: Cat's Love Story, Myo & Ga: The Life of a Hero, and the early versions (from 2006-October 2009) of "Canimals", Canimal.

Website

Main article: Vooz.co.kr

In 2000, the Vooz.co.kr website was launched. It had a flash animation section with flash animations which consisted of Pucca^[1], Mura: Military Pigs^[2], Animalcraft^[3], and Dooby & Rooby.^[4] Pucca had a total of 18 episodes, Mura had a total of 3 episodes, and Dooby & Animalcraft each had one animation. The .SWF files for these shorts can be found on the Internet Archive.