Me and My Friends

Me and My Friends is a live-action pilot filmed at Nickelodeon Studios Florida in September of 1998. The show's concept was reworked into an animated pilot in 2001, which was picked up as The Backyardigans.
==Plot==
The plot featured Uniqua, Pablo, Tyrone, and Tasha having adventures in an early version of the backyard.
==Production==
The characters were designed by illustrator Dan Yaccarino. Costume designer and developer Yvette Helin in New York worked with her team and sculptor Sal Denaro to realize the two-dimensional characters into life size walk-around character costumes. Yaccarino was a supervisor for the costume-building process. Yugi Yashimoto and Dann Quinn were hired to realize the head sculpts full size and engineer various remote control effects such as moving eyes and mouths.
==Trivia==
*Austin does not appear in the pilot since he was not a planned character.
*In the pilot, three characters called the Meerkats are introduced. At some point in the transition from live action to animation, they were removed. 
==External Links==
# The Backyardigains: Me and My Friends
Category:Series pilots
Category:The Backyardigans
Category:The Backyardigans episodes