Alliance Communications has formed partnerships with Canadian toy manufacturer Irwin Toys and video game giant Sega of America to develop animated titles based on toys and games.

With Irwin, Alliance will produce 26 episodes of The 108 Outlaws, an animated, action-adventure television series combining mythology, Asian legends and medieval tales. A broadcaster for Outlaws has not yet been named.

Alliance will also produce 13 half-hour episodes of BUG!, a series based on Sega’s Saturn video game of the same name. The comedy series will consist of three computer-animated cartoon shorts per episode. Alliance has not announced who will animate BUG! or if production partners will be engaged. Mairi Welman of likely suspect Mainframe Entertainment says the Vancouver cgi animation company ‘passed on the project.’

Earlier this month, Alliance announced a partnership with u.s. toy maker Fisher-Price to produce the 2D/3D animation home video and series pilot Rescue Heroes, with Toronto’s Pictor Entertainment producing the animation.