Canimals Explained
Alt Name: | Canimals: We Can Do It! |
Genre: | Comedy Slapstick |
Creator: | Vooz Character System |
Creative Director: | Yoo Kyung Kim Toni Garcia Richard Starzak |
Voices: | Marie Fagundo Todd Winters Robert Pope Sly Johnson Martial Le Minoux Jeremy Prevost |
Theme Music Composer: | Simon Russell |
Composer: | Simon Russell |
Country: | South Korea United Kingdom Spain |
Language: | English Spanish Korean |
Num Seasons: | 2 |
Num Episodes: | 109 |
Executive Producer: | Carlos Biern Yoo Kyoung Kim Miles Bullough Sun Kyung Jung |
Producer: | Sarah Fell Chey Lee Robert Doherty Jung Min Park Han Gil Nam Claudio Biern Boyd |
Runtime: | 5 Minutes |
Company: | Voozclub Co., Ltd. BRB Internacional Screen 21 Aardman Animations |
Channel: | EBS (South Korea) ITV (CITV) (United Kingdom) |
Related: | Pucca |
Canimals (portmanteau of "can" and "animal") (Korean: 캐니멀, kaenimeol), also known as Canimals: We Can Do It!, is a live-action and animated television series by Voozclub Co., Ltd., BRB Internacional, Screen 21 and Aardman Animations. The main characters are Ato, Mimi, Uly, Fizzy, Nia, Oz, Pow, Toki, and Leon. Internationally, the series has aired in the United Kingdom through CITV and worldwide through ITV Network.[1] [2]
The show has received generally positive reviews with praise going to its novel materials and high-quality production.[3]
Plot
Canimals are adorable creatures in the form of cylinders that carry colorful cans. Canimals are always interested in what is going on around them and have a lot of questions.[4] They hide in their cans when humans are nearby. Even the most mundane objects hold something different and fascinating for the Canimals.
Characters
- Ato - A cheerful and adventurous Beagle in a green can. In the episode title cards, he displays the Canimals logo.
- Oz - A clever Turkish Angora in a red can. She frequently gets herself into more trouble than she can manage, but thanks to her intelligence, she can get away with just about anything. She is good at analyzing objects she discovers. When analyzing objects, algebraic equations appear infront of with her eyes as her eyes roll around which is seen in 2 episodes of Season 1, but is shown much more prominently in Season 2. In Season 2, she is shown to be intelligent enough to invent things.
- Uly - A hungry Pug in an orange can. He has a large appetite and will eat just about anything he sets his eyes on.
- Mimi - A sassy Poodle in a pink can. She loves doing girly activities usually with the other female Canimals. However, she can also get annoyed easily and has a habit of smacking other Canimals out of the way with her ears.
- Pow - A Great horned owl in a light brown can. He can debilitate the other Canimals by shooting laser waves from his eyes. He is capable of carrying others with his claws which can be seen in some episodes.
- Fizzy - A Siamese cat in a blue can. He aspires to live a ninja lifestyle, but everything he does has a tendency to backfire on him. He is quite clumsy and accident-prone. He has an interest in martial arts. He likes shiny objects such as rings. He is able to make clones of himself as seen in the episode Mimi's Birthday.
- Toki - A hyperactive and spontaneous Rabbit in a blue can similar to Fizzy's. He is chock full of energy and loves to hop and dance around, especially if there is music. He often uses his jumping to his advantage.
- Nia - A timid and childlike Turkish Van in a yellow can. She is easily frightened and prone to tears, and can let out a deafening sonic scream.
- Leon - A Chameleon in a green and yellow can. He has the ability to turn invisible and use his tongue to grab objects or cling to higher places.
Other characters
- Woo-ang - A bull terrier who's always happy-go-lucky.[5]
- Peng and Gwin - A penguin twin brother and sister duo.
- Boco - A giant squirrel who is the leader of the Cocoboses. In the episode "Canned Nuts", he antagonizes Ato, Toki and Nia.
- Cocoboses - Small squirrels who love metal nuts and bolts.
- Wooga - A gorilla who doesn’t like dogs and other kinds of animals, except for cats. Wooga can have a serious temper at times.
- Koby - A turtle who doesn’t like spicy food. He is kind, grumpy, furious and happy. He gets nervous sometimes.
- Pip - A black and white cat who is Ato's friend for most of the time. She was nicknamed Mini Pip when Mimi and Nia cared for her. However, she can take on a giant form and antagonize the Canimals.[6]
- Lion De Capri - A hot-tempered lion. He can roar very loudly and has chased the Canimals on one occasion.[7]
- Olive - A unique brown skunk. She falls in love with a sock puppet and farts from the episode "Trash Can" in season 1.
- Moo - A grizzly bear who chased Ato, Toki and Nia in the episode "Canned Nuts" in season 1.
- Woong and Ung - A seal twin brother duo.
- Dal- A Dalmatian dog who has three younger relatives called the Dallies.
- Elly - An elephant that loves bubbles and blows them with her trunk from the episode "Bubble Traveling" in season 2.
- Bebes - are bats in cans.
Episodes
Season 2
- Ato, Oz, Mimi, Uly and Nia swim in an aquarium with Koby. Ato, Oz, Uly, Mimi, Pow and a new canimal named Elly the elephant blow bubbles, Nia gets stuck in a clay vase, so Ato, Uly, Mimi and Leon try to free her, and Ato, Oz, Mimi, Fizzy and Uly are stranded on a desert island.
- Ato, Oz, Mimi and Wooang make things out of recyclables, Oz, Mimi, Fizzy, Nia and Toki ride a toy plane, Oz, Mimi, Nia, Leon and Uly enjoy a day on a boat and Ato, Oz, Uly and Mimi try to run a kid café for entertaining Dal and her Dallies.
- Ato, Oz, Uly, Mimi, Fizzy, Nia and Leon produce their own movie, Ato, Oz, Uly, Mimi, Fizzy, Nia and Leon solve a mirror mystery, Ato, Fizzy, Nia and Leon play with dominoes and Mimi, Oz, Uly, and Nia make music with raindrops, Woong and Ung like the music.
- Ato, Oz, Mimi and Nia make science experiments, Ato, Mimi, Oz, Uly, Fizzy and Pow have fun with their shadows, Mimi, Nia, Toki, Uly and Pow look at stars through a telescope and Ato, Oz, Mimi and Nia fly kites but Capri does not like that they have kites as well.
- The Canimals protect Christmas presents, Ato, Uly, Mimi, Nia and Pow are scared of Halloween, but they try to enjoy it and Oz helps them, Ato, Oz, Uly, Mimi, Pow, Peng & Gwin bake cookies and Mimi learns a lesson about anger with Nia's help.
- Oz invents a ray gun in her workshop; Fizzy and Leon practice martial arts.
- Fizzy has a standoff over a ball of yarn; Ato's garden yields a crop of fresh carrots.
- Fizzy faces a new martial arts opponent; Uly whips something up in the kitchen.
- Oz tries to tell the squirrels apart; Oz and Nia plan a surprise birthday party for Mimi.
- Mimi's friends throw her an unusual birthday party; Pow eats blueberry seeds.
- Nia befriends a frozen gorilla that is found in Ato's garden.
- The gorilla gets lured back to the jungle by Ato and Oz; Mimi and Nia play hide-and-seek.
- The Canimals join Toki for a dance; Uly gets zapped into Ato's garden.
Development
The character's creation began in 2006.[8] [9] At the this time, the characters were visually different and lacked arms.[10] [11] Aardman, BRB International and VoozClub co-produced the show.The voice acting was done by Aardman, while the modeling, animation, and sound processing were handled by VoozClub and BRB International.[12]
Licensing
BRB International manages all the series' rights on the Iberian Peninsula.[13]
The series was picked up by Netflix in November 2015, and the entire series was available until June 2019 when it was pulled.[14]
Canal+ managed the series rights In France where it aired on TeleTOON+.[15]
Reception
Viewership
In South Korea, Canimals was first broadcast on EBS in 2011, and it received a high viewership rating and was well-received throughout the country.[16]
In the United Kingdom, Canimals was a Ratings success. The show achieved a peak viewership of around 153,800 viewers on February 4, 2013 during the after school block.[17] The Show quickly became one of CITV's flagship shows, delivering the second highest average audience viewing figures against competitors in the afternoons.[18] Canimals also delivered the highest average audience viewing figures against competitors in the mornings.[19]
Merchandise
Toys
For all of Europe, the Japanese toy company Tomy released their Canimals Toys range, which included plushes, toy figures, electronics, arts and crafts, and capsule toys.[20]
Academy Plastic Model Co., Ltd, A Korean plastic model, chemical, and toy company, Released their line of canimals toys in 2015. Their Line Included Vinyl Figures and Plastic Kits.[21] Academy also released a Canimals board game, Canimals Curling.[22] [23]
Other
Samsonite, a luggage manufacturer and retailer released their line of Canimals travel luggage in 2012.[24] [25]
Websites
UK website
On July 7, 2012, the show's website officially launched. Aardman was tasked with creating a website for the series, and the site included clips, games, and downloads. In 2019, the website was shut down.[26] [27]
Apps
Mobile apps
Between February 1, 2011, and January 18, 2012, Canimals had a slew of mobile apps launched.[28] [29] By April 19, 2013, the Apps Together had received about 3,800,000 downloads.[30] These apps (with the exception of Canimals Golf.[31]) were taken down at an unspecified time.[32] [33] [34]
Games
Flash games
4 Flash games were available for fans to play on the Canimals website.[35] Since the website was shut down in 2019, these games are no longer playable. More flash games were also available on Voozclub.com, Voozclub's official website.[36]
Facebook games
Cantasia
Cantasia was a game on the popular social media website Facebook. The game was released sometime in November 2012.[37] The game was developed by online game developer, Playplus.[38] The game put players into the world of canimals and let them create their own Cantasia World. The Game initially Featured one minigame, Canimals Match 3, which was later released as a standout app later that December exclusively on Samsung mobile devices.[39] The release of the Game was the first time the Canimals brand was brought into the United States.[40] The website was retired and at an unknown date.
Awards and nominations
Canimals won as the best for kids 7–10 at the 2010 Kids' Jury and nominated for the Licensing Challenge in MIPJR 2010.[41] [42] It was also placed 2nd among more than 1,000 works at MIPCOM Junior 2009 where It won the best animation award.[43] In 2011, it won the Grand Prize (President Award) at the Korean Content Awards.[44]
Home media releases
In the UK, ITV Studios Home Entertainment released Volume 1 on 29 January 2011.
See also
External links
Notes and References
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- Web site: Canimals international airing. Animation Magazine. 4 September 2012.
- Web site: Canimals – Voozclub.
- Web site: Official Website.
- Web site: CANIMALS Season 1 Bible. 27 October 2014 .
- Web site: CANIMALS Season 1 Bible. 27 October 2014 .
- Web site: CANIMALS Season 1 Bible. 27 October 2014 .
- Web site: 캐니멀 인기 돌풍, Ebs 어린이 프로그램 중 시청률 1위!. 8 April 2011. ko.
- Web site: [월요기획-만화·에니메이션·캐릭터]부즈 `캐니멀`]. 18 December 2006. ko.
- Web site: 캔 속에 들어 있는 애완동물들. 31 July 2006. ko.
- Web site: 거품 빠진 한국 캐릭터 산업, 이제부터 시작이다. 9 October 2007. ko.
- Web site: Aardman, Vooz Club, BRB Team on Canimals. 23 March 2010.
- Web site: Canimals licensing. BRB. 7 October 2012. 9 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121009010415/http://www.brb.es/en/licensing/tv-series/canimals. dead.
- Web site: Titles leaving Netflix in June 2019. What’s on Netflix. 10 June 2019.
- Web site: BRB's "Canimals" Picked Up By France's Canal+ Family & TeleTOON+. 17 June 2011.
- Web site: Official Website.
- Web site: Watch out, there are Canimals about!. 19 April 2013.
- Web site: Watch out, there are Canimals about!. 19 April 2013.
- Web site: Canimals Brand Presentation. 22 August 2013 .
- Web site: CANIMALS – the next big thing! – Banter Toys. 9 February 2011 .
- Web site: Canimals | hobbyDB.
- Web site: 15739 Canimals curling - ACADEMY.
- Web site: Canimals: We Can Do It (2018) - Board Game Geek.
- Web site: limited . https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/138688432858063/514500661943503 . 2022-04-27. Korea Samsonite on Facebook . Facebook.
- Web site: limited . https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/195625777119742/502342356448081 . 2022-04-27. Canimal World on Facebook . Facebook.
- Web site: Canimals.co.uk at Website Informer. Morph. Visit Canimals.
- Web site: Canimals Website.
- Web site: Talking OZ | Apps | 148Apps.
- Web site: Find Canimals HD | Apps | 148Apps.
- Web site: Watch out, there are Canimals about!. 19 April 2013.
- Web site: App Store listing for CanimalGolf.
- Web site: Find Canimals HD by VOOZCLUB Co., Ltd.
- Web site: Canimals KeyboDrums HD - Free by VOOZCLUB Co., Ltd.
- Web site: Canimals TD by VOOZCLUB Co., Ltd.
- Web site: Canimals. https://web.archive.org/web/20160314000443/http://canimals.co.uk/games. 14 March 2016.
- Web site: canimalworld. https://web.archive.org/web/20140220022904/http://www.voozclub.com/canimalworld/games.html. 20 February 2014.
- Web site: Cantasia Launches on Facebook, Brings Popular Asian IP "Canimals" to US for First Time. 28 November 2012.
- Web site: PlayPlus brings Canimals to Facebook.
- Web site: Canimals Launches Mobile Match 3 Game Exclusively on Samsung Apps. 11 December 2012.
- Web site: Cantasia Launches on Facebook, Brings Popular Asian IP "Canimals" to US for First Time. 28 November 2012.
- Web site: Canimals awards. Cartoon Media. 7 October 2012.
- Web site: Canimals awards and nominations. BRB. 7 October 2012. 4 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120904092023/http://www.brb.es/en/productions/animation-series/canimals. dead.
- Web site: Official Website. VOOZCLUB.
- Web site: Official Website. VOOZCLUB.