Aardman Animations is Launching New THE VERY SMALL CREATURES Preschool Series on Sky Kids This Fall

Aardman Animations, the legendary animation studio behind Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, and more have greenlit a new preschool series called The Very Small Creatures. The series was commissioned by Sky Kids and will use characters from Aardman’s Morph universe and marks the first series the studio has created for that target audience since Timmy Time in 2009.

“The Very Small Creatures” follows five, genderless clay creatures who pass their time exploring children’s play areas when no people are present. With a childlike sense of adventure, Pink, Blue, Orange, Yellow and Green learn how the world around them works through collaborative play.

The series will feature 20 3-minute episodes in Aardman’s signature stop-motion claymation style that will aim to relate the experiences of the creatures to those of real toddlers. The experiences will have a focus on “important themes such as relationships, teamwork and empathy” with a special emphasis on “valuing and understanding one another’s differences.”

Animator Lucy Izzard will serve as director, and said:

I am thrilled to have developed with Aardman this brand new stop motion pre-school series. It’s a show driven by five very cute clay creatures that act and behave like toddlers, learning about their physical world, themselves and each other. The themes for each episode relate to some aspect of toddlers’ lives with the focus on comedy and kindness. My two pre-schoolers have given me plenty of material to work from! I can’t wait to sit down on the sofa and show them the world they’ve inspired.

The Very Small Creatures will premiere on Sky Kids and Sky’s Now streaming platform this November.

Via: Variety