Tumble Leaf | |
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Created by | Drew Hodges |
Voices of | Christopher Downs Brooke Wolloff Jodi Downs Landon Clay Addie Zintel Gary Littman Alan Franzenburg Emily Downs Steve Downs |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 26 (52) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Drew Hodges Kelli Bixler |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Amazon Studios Bix Pix Entertainment |
Release | |
Original network | Amazon Video |
Original release | May 23, 2014 |
Website |
Tumble Leaf is an Emmy-winning Amazon Studios original series that premiered in 2014. It is a stop motion animated series for preschool-aged children and is based on the short film Miro. Created by animator Drew Hodges (Saturday Night Live, Community) and stop-motion studio Bix Pix Entertainment, Tumble Leaf features an anthropomorphic blue fox named Fig and his caterpillar friend Stick (both voiced by child actor Christopher Downs), along with other residents of the island of Tumble Leaf, helping preschoolers learn basic science lessons through playful examples. Additional regular characters include Maple (Brooke Wolloff), Rutabaga (Jodi Downs), Hedge (Landon Clay), Pine (Addie Zintel), and Ginkgo (Gary Littman). Each episode consists of two 11-minute stories with Fig learning the mechanics of various items discovered in a special room on board the abandoned shipwreck where he resides.
The show was part of the first round of television pilots ordered by Amazon in 2013 for its Amazon Video service, and was officially picked up for its first 13-episode season on May 29, 2013. The show's first six episodes premiered exclusively on the Amazon Video service on May 23, 2014, and the remaining seven episodes of season one premiered on September 5, 2014. A re-dubbed German version premiered for Amazon's German Prime customers on August 20, 2014.
On February 23, 2015 it was renewed for a second season, which became available on December 10, 2015.
On December 21, 2015 it was renewed for a third season.