Kiddets
Kiddets is a New Zealand-based children's television show which debuted in 2018 and sister series to The WotWots. Created by Martin Baynton and Richard Taylor, the series uses computer animation mixed with live-action clips to follow five alien friends as they learn about life in their playroom. It currently consists of one season and a total of 52 eleven-minute episodes.
Plot
The show follows five young alien friends called "Kiddets" each with an area of interest and learning; Patches, Dapper, Bounce, Stripes and Luna. They are space cadets, explorers-in-training at a space academy on planet WotWot. They learn through play in their playroom that overlooks a space port floating above their planet and occasionally reach out for help from SpottyWot and DottyWot on planet Earth.Production
The spin-off series was announced in November 2015, when Pūkeko Pictures which previously produced The WotWots had partnered with Chinese animation production studio Guangdong Huawen Century Animation Company to produce a sister television series to The WotWots entitled Kiddets marking the first children's television series co-production between New Zealand and China with Pukeko Pictures' founder, and creators of The WotWots Martin Baynton and Richard Taylor would serve as creators of the spin-off sister series.On October 2 2017, Pūkeko Pictures had partnered with British distribution company Cake Entertainment to handle worldwide distribution for Pukeko Pictures' spin-off series to The WotWots franchise Kiddets except for Australia, New Zealand and China.
The Kiddets characters and their space station are animated with occasional clips from The WotWots over live-action footage by the Weta Workshop, the visual effects company founded by Taylor and Rodger, known for its work on the The [Lord of the Rings |Lord of the Rings film trilogy].