Pingu is an animation based on penguins in the Arctic much like the young audience of Bagpuss has the same sort of age group as there target audiences. Pingu's style of animation is also stop motion ofcourse :p the characters are all made using plasticine or clay the way they move is smooth and seems as if they glide along the set, most of the setting is usually simple and plain with only one focal point usually has something to do with the storyline to follow it's supposed to be set in an igloo. Pingu doesn't have much camera movement and each episode is really samey, there isn't any vocals used it is just slight sound effects for each penguin it's just gibberish but has undertones of real words that's why we know that it's aimed at a much younger audience then South Park.
Pingu was created in Switzerland by animator and creator Otmar Gutmann but is internationally known all over the world on kid TV starting in Switzerland then the rights being bought by the BBC as it also had British producers like "HIT entertainment" and "Hot animation" it has also got a cult following from Japan and on American TV. Pingu has been on air since the 1980s and has had three different voice actors for the main character Pingu. Each episode is roughly 5minutes long and the animation has changed to suit new technology in animation starting with claymation and then going up to a resin based sculpture but still the orginals are more popular. Each episode is made at 12 frames per second giving the illusion of movement.
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