Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is an American animated television series created by Radford Sechrist. The series is produced by DreamWorks Animation Television with animation outsourced to South Korean studio Mir. It follows a girl called Kipo Oak, who is searching for her father after being forced to flee from her burrow. Along the way she befriends human survivors Wolf and Benson, and the mutant animals Dave and Mandu.

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Summary Kipo and the Age of WonderbeastsKipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is an American animated television series created by Radford Sechrist. The series is produced by DreamWorks Animation Television with animation outsourced to South Korean studio Mir. The young adult animated series follows a girl called Kipo Oak, who is searching for her father after being forced to flee from her burrow. Along the way she befriends human survivors Wolf and Benson, and the mutant animals Dave and Mandu. It has been critically acclaimed for its design, characterization, music, world-building, voice acting, and diversity. It is particularly notable for its representation of LGBT and characters of color. The show’s three seasons, each ten episodes long, were released in 2020. Season 1 was released on January 14, season 2 on June 12, and season 3 on October 12.

About sixty people worked on the series at DreamWorks, about fifty-five people at Mir Studio in South Korea using traditional animation methods. The animated series based the webcomic Kipi, which was first announced at Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2019. It was created by Sechrist, who previously worked as an animator for Dan Vs and later director on the Voltron: The Legendary Defender. He has five writers in addition to showrunner Sechrist and executive producer Bill Wolkoff. He previously worked on Dan Vs: Legendary Defender, and later directed the film adaptation of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Descendants.