Disney Channel makes its first foray into completely computer-generated animation with its new series for young children, Rolie Polie Olie, debuting October 4. Renowned children's book author and illustrator William Joyce created this 13-episode weekly series, produced by Nelvana Limited. Joyce was recently named one of the 100 people to watch in the next millennium by Newsweek magazine. Rolie Polie Olie follows the touching, tumultuous and sometimes hilarious world of Olie, a simple robotic "everyboy" who lives in a magical, mechanical world.
Rolie Polie Olie is a children's television series produced by Nelvana and created by William Joyce. The show centers on a little boy who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI, and the first CGI animated preschool series.
Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 1999 and 2000. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series[citation needed]. The show has a vintage atmosphere of circa 1960.
The show centers around the Polie Family, who live in teapot-shaped house in a geometric world (Planet Polie) populated by robot-based characters. The stories revolve around seven-year-old[citation needed] robot Olie learning life lessons and going on wacky adventures (either real or imaginative) while growing up. These often include his two-year-old younger sister Zowie, his thirty-eight-year-old[citation needed] inventor father, his thirty-one-year-old[citation needed] hard-working mom, his fun-loving seventy-year-old grandfather Pappy, and his dog, Spot. Although most of the main cast is made up of circular bots, other characters are featured in other shapes, such as Olie's friend Billy Bevel and his family, who are square-shaped bots from Planet Cubey.
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