This is how the British-Swiss stop motion animation series Pingu was made.
Pingu[]
The production process began with creating storyboards, so that the animators could pace each episode, working out the look and feel of each movement, thus ensuring that they shoot just enough animation.
The technique of stop motion, claymation and replacement animation were used in the original Pingu series. The puppets were made of plasticine. It took four animators one day to shoot 32 secs of the show. From script concept to delivery, it took approximately 30 weeks and on average 300 individual puppet stages were used in each episode. There were approximately 2,000 different models which made up the production of Pingu: 729 bodies, 888 heads, 327 flippers.[1]
Seasons 1-4[]
The head office was called Pingu B.V. (formerly Editoy B.V.) and it was located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Silvio Mazzola and Gurdo Weber used to work here. Trickfilmstudio Otmar Gutmann/Pingu Filmstudio/Pingu Studio (the animation studio) was located in Russikon, Switzerland and Audio 4 (the recording studio) in Savosa, Switzerland. Carlo Bonomi was the voice actor of all the characters and he didn’t use a script. 5 episodes were recorded in 5 days.
Season 5-6[]
Hot Animation and HiT Entertainment produced the new series with David Sant and Marcello Magni being the voice actors.
Pingu in the City[]
The series was produced by Polygon Pictures in the same style as the original stop-motion series through computer animation.
Specials featuring behind the scenes material[]
- Pingu - a cartoon character conquers the world
- I Love Pingu
- Fun! Fun! Pingu ~ 100% Pingu World
- Pingu Goes to the Studio
- I want to see more! The World of Animation "Pingu in the City"
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Season 1-4[]
Season 5-6[]
Pingu in the City[]
Storyboards:[]
Season 1-4[]
Season 5-6[]
Present Day:[]
Auction[]
The Prop Gallery[]
TomsProps[]
Casseyhartley[]
Ryan Hagen[]
Videos[]
