Tony Bannister, a video graphics designer based in London, is looking to turn the offbeat series of J.P. Martin Uncle books into an animated television series, using the original Quentin Blake pictures as a starting point for the look of the show. Blake drew additional fame as the imaginative illustrator of Roald Dahl’s famous children’s stories. “Uncle is an elephant, although he could just as well have been anything else,” says Bannister, “who is fabulously rich and rides about on a traction engine. His house is surrounded by a moat and includes one hundred skyscrapers”. A website, Uncle-TV, has been set up which offers a further look into Uncle’s world, as well as some initial concept maquette work and an animation test.