TUMBLE LEAF - A BIX PIX ORIGINAL.
EMMYS
Outstanding Pre-School Children's Animated Program - Winner: 2015, 2016, 2018 | Nominated: 2017, 2019
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program - Nominated: 2019
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program - Winner: 2016, 2017, 2020 | Nominated: 2018, 2019
Outstanding Cinematography - Winner: 2019, 2020
Outstanding Writing for a Pre-school Animated Program - Nominated: 2020
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Character Animator - Winner: 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Colorist - Winner: 2015, 2018
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Production Designer - Winner: 2015
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Character Designer - Winner: 2015
Outstanding Costume Design/Styling - Nominated: 2016
Outstanding Sound Mixing in a Preschool Animated Program - Nominated: 2017, 2020
Outstanding Sound Editing in a Preschool Animated Program - Nominated: 2017
ANNIES
Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production for Preschool Children - Winner: 2015, 2016, 2017 | Nominated: 2019
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production - Nominated: 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production - Nominated: 2015, 2018
PEABODY AWARD
Children’s Programming - Nominated: 2017
ANNECY
Jury Award for a TV Series - Winner: 2014
BAFTA AWARDS
Children’s | International Pre-School Series - Winner: 2018
PARENTS' CHOICE
Gold Award - Winner: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
NATIONAL CARTOONISTS SOCIETY DIVISION AWARDS
Television Animation - Winner: 2015
YOUNG ARTIST AWARD
Best Performance in a Voice-Over Role - Winner: 2015 | Nominated: 2016
YOUNG ENTERTAINER AWARD
Best Ensemble Cast Voice-Over - Winner: 2016
CYNOPSISKIDS !MAGINATION AWARDS
Preschool Series/Special - Winner: 2015
New Preschool Series - Nominated: 2015
Educational Series/Special Parent/Teacher Curriculum - Nominated: 2015, 2016
Take a step-by-step visual exploration of our creative process!
It all begins with an idea...
Miro, a blue boy, cheers up a sad whale.
Miro transforms into a blue fox.
Miro becomes Fig, the fox.
Fig Gets A Few New Friends
A show bible is developed with focus on PLAY.
Creating The Story
Scripts are written. Character voices are cast and recorded. Director and storyboard team craft a moving template using many drawn pictures paired with the sound track... An animatic is born.
Building The Characters
Each puppet is sculpted per the director’s design. Molds are made. Ball and socket armatures (skeletons) are machined to fit inside. Puppets are cleaned, sanded and assembled and, lastly, hand painted.
The Clothes Make The Puppet
Costumes are designed and patterns created in tiny sizes, scaled to perfection, hand stitched, knitted, dyed and treated with wire or foil so they can be animated.
Creating A New Little World
Sets are designed, constructed and painted with the parameters of camera angles, reusability and scale in mind. Using a combination of techniques, the art department creates a variety of props to dress the sets and to be manipulated by the characters.
Setting the Camera and Lighting the World
Once the camera is set, our Director of Photography and his team begin to paint with light. Orange gels and dapple for sunny forest scenes, and cool blues for bedtime storytelling!
Making It Move
Once puppets, sets, and specific props are placed and lit - animation begins! Each animator goes over the shot with our director. An animator, on average, shoots approximately 200 frames or 8 seconds of footage per day.
The Final Touches
Most editing is done in the animatic stage, so not much cutting remains. However, rigs must be digitally removed; light flickers, set bumps and camera smudges must be fixed; and holes in the characters’ hands, feet or drilled into the set must magically disappear. The VFX artists also add any effects that were not done in-camera – such as large bodies of water, reflective shines, bubbles, skies, etc.
