An extraterrestrial yellow drop, a curious preschool age and thousands of Stop-Motion Stop-Motion Marcos BumidooA new children’s program that aims to make science and mathematics fun.
Bumidoo He left on YouTube and TVO online on August 8 and will be broadcast on TVO on August 17.
The brief show Stop-Motion follows Lili, four years old, with the voice of Olivia Yang, and her alien friend who changes shape, Bumpi.
The couple learns and discusses issues related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), such as the difference between and down, and why they are hungry.
The show, created by Carmen Albano and Celeste Koon, was first launched in 2022 and the first season was later filmed in a Toronto study.
The characters Lili and Bumpi can be better on the screen, but in the studio, “they cannot approach each other,” said Evan Derushie, the director of Stop-Motion, the program director of the program.
“Bumpi, we love him, but he is messy,” he said, explaining how Bumpi’s materials do not allow him to be physically with the rest of the cast.
“It’s oily, it’s made of plasticine and reaches everywhere.”
That made the production of the program a bit challenging, he said, since the scenes between the two had to be filmed separately.
The Stop-Motion animation is already careful, slow work, with fixed images together to make movement on the screen.
The program was filmed to 12 paintings per second, and the episodes give about 3½ minutes. Mathematics says it would be just over 2,500 paintings per episode of handmade movements, without counting the scenes that had to be filmed several times due to Bumpi’s disorder.
Hamilton a great influence for the animator
Derushie grew up in the Hamilton neighborhood in Westdale. He said it was a cooperative placement in cable 14 while he was at school that prepared him to finally create his own study, Parade department.
“There are many people for patients who have been there for a long time. And they show you how to make cables and how to be respectful of talent when they enter and how to handle a room of people,” he said.
“There are many skills there that I think they were really influential to me.”
Disechie now has its headquarters in Toronto, the location of its study. The department of Stop Motion now directs cooperative programs with students from Sheridan College and Ontario College of Art & Design University.
Some of the students also participated in the realization of BumidooSaid Derushie. They and the rest of the animation staff “really hugged the show and these characters,” he said.
“We were all quoting Bumpi throughout the day.”
Derushie said the animation team built the characters by hand and then photographed each painting.
“It’s a bit of a photo collage of photos of accessories that are glued together,” he said.
‘Many pressures’ in the children’s television industry
The price and effort that enters the animation of Stop-Motion is one of the few reasons why the episodes are short, said producer Kat Hayduk based in Hamilton.
“In children’s media, things are generally shorter,” said Hayduk, founder of Tortuga productionsThe company behind the program.
“But this was also designed to be a first digital show … so we gathered it as small shorts of three and a half minutes. It is also a way of building the brand and seeing where it goes.”
Hayduk said that with the children’s television industry that fights, partly because children resort to the YouTube content that can lack educational value, the digital nature of the program was also intentional.
“At this time there have been many pressures on the industry, but creators will find a way and create a program like this that children can find online is a way to follow,” he said.
Albano and Koon originally launched the show to Turtlebox Productions, directed by Hayduk and his partner Cam, and the couple was “delighted by him immediately.”
“We loved its appearance,” said Hayduk, “and we loved the countryside.”
The program is a comedy, he said, “to which children love and respond”, but it is also educational, exploring Stem concepts in preschool as shapes, colors and textures.
“I like to think that the program is inspiring some Stem education in children,” said Hayduk. “But it is also the beautiful nature of animation and [colours]That could inspire a child to become an artist. “
Hayduk said the team is already working for a second season of Bumidoo and producing “at least double episodes” in 2026 to boost the program at the international level.
“Who knows what Bumidoo It could become. We could see the potential of Spin -Offs and potentially some toys or funny books, “he said.
“Heaven is the limit to Bumidoo“
