Country of origin FinlandChina Running time 23 minutes First episode date 2010 Number of episodes 26 | No. of episodes 26 Original release 2010 – present | |
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Created by Mikaela SolatieTom SolatieTuija LehtinenFuturecode OyBlueArc Animation Studios Similar The Dreaming Girl, Huang Yanpei, Will You Marry Me and My F, Kong Que Ling, Tortoise Hanba's Stories | ||
The Dibidogs is an animated television series originated from children's ideas and developed with cooperation between Finnish and Chinese producers. The idea of the series is to build a world of children's creativity where participants are welcomed all over the world.
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The Dibidogs has been broadcast since 2010. In Finland it was shown on MTV3 and MTV Juniori (Junior). It has gained over 50 million viewers worldwide in 28 countries, mostly in Asia.
The world of Dibidogs
Dibidogs live on a colourful planet called Bonecity, a futuristic canine paradise. Everything is designed by and for dogs. For instance, buildings and mobile phones are in the shape of bones. They travel by spaceships, occasionally visiting neighbouring planets. The children's school is next to the king's palace.
Creation of the series
The Dibidogs were originated by Finnish creativity teacher Jim Solatie and his family.
In the summer of 2005, on a road trip to the Grand Canyon with their parents, Mikaela and Tom Solatie were doodling and came up with some amusing dog images, which they called Dibidogs.
A year later their father Jim Solatie read that, in order to support domestic animation productions, the Chinese government had blocked foreign-made children's programs from running during primetime on Chinese TV channels. Solatie began to consider the possibility of creating a Chinese animation series from the Dibidogs figures.
Solatie negotiated with dozens of animation studios in China before forming a partnership with BlueArc Animation Studios in Guangzhou. Its directors were fascinated by the series's plot and the concept of characters being developed from children's ideas. Many of the series' visual elements originated from children's creativity workshops organized by BlueArc in China. For instance, the design of Dibidogs planet was based on a boy's drawing.