All blend tough themes with comedic scripts, dramatic issues with light-hearted one-liners.
"I like to take those kind of tough themes and really push the possibilities," he says.
The story also explores tough themes such as adoption and whether parents should hide a child's past and the impact of extreme disfigurement.
That the show deals with mental illness and refuses to shy away from some tough themes, including self-harm and abortion, means fans have a tendency to open up to Rooney with their problems.
"The children and youth in very poor and drug-ridden neighbourhoods put together some incredibly well-done and impactful docu-dramas around very tough themes like drug abuse, crime, and sex trafficking," she says.
Variations on the tough outerwear theme included leather — even as a seductive, fitted jumpsuit — merino wool sweaters and cropped leather jackets.
Kiip is situated in a part of the city that has a lot of auto repair shops — and in fact, the company's office was a former garage — so there's certainly a tough industrial theme there that contrasts nicely with the digital realm that Kiip's products live in.
This tough-minded theme show doesn't bother much with rhetoric.
In the years since, Beltram has been busy crafting a steady stream of releases that are largely variations on the tough-techno theme that he perfected in 1990, for a list of labels that includes Tresor, Warp, Drumcode, Harthouse and his own STX, among many others.
It is a new animated series that tackles tough global themes in a gentle, preschool-friendly manner, produced by Little Airplane Productions.
