Funky Valley
Encyclopedia
Funky Valley is a UK television series created designed, and directed by Sarah and Simon Bor. It is produced by Honeycomb Animation for Five. Aimed at the pre-school audience, rendered in a texture-rich animation
style. Each five-minute episode is set in a farmyard full of the usual farm animals. The main characters are usually Dippy the cow, Porker the pig
, Hoot the owl
, Horatio the horse
, Clara, the hen
, and Daphne the bossy duck
. There is also a hysterical Sun
, and Moon
. The sun is usually wearing something according to the weather in the episode.
bragging about how pretty she is, which leads to the plot of the episode. Hoot the owl usually comes at the end and helps solves the problem.
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
style. Each five-minute episode is set in a farmyard full of the usual farm animals. The main characters are usually Dippy the cow, Porker the pig
Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives...
, Hoot the owl
Owl
Owls are a group of birds that belong to the order Strigiformes, constituting 200 bird of prey species. Most are solitary and nocturnal, with some exceptions . Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish...
, Horatio the horse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
, Clara, the hen
Chicken
The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird...
, and Daphne the bossy duck
Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the Anatidae family of birds, which also includes swans and geese. The ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the Anatidae family; they do not represent a monophyletic group but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered...
. There is also a hysterical Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
, and Moon
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
. The sun is usually wearing something according to the weather in the episode.
Episode Overview
Each episode, the characters are doing what farm animals usually do; like Porker, relaxing in his giant mud puddle, or Horatio eating apples. There is always a problem, either a big hailstorm, or Gertrude the gooseGoose
The word goose is the English name for a group of waterfowl, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller....
bragging about how pretty she is, which leads to the plot of the episode. Hoot the owl usually comes at the end and helps solves the problem.
Characters
- Dippy: A cow who is always forgetful.
- Fleecie: A sheep.
- Porker: A pig who loves mud and is Dippy's closest friend.
- Clara: A loud hen.
- Daphne: A very bossy duck.
- Horatio: An orange horse who loves apples.
- Hoot: Hoot is a very wise owl, and helps his friends when there is a problem.
- Gertrude: A goose who wishes she was a swan.
- Buster: Buster is a ram.
- Sun: Sun is pre-schooler funny, and is on the right side of the credits.
- Moon: Moon is on the left side of the credits.
- Amadeus: A wolf playing a violin.
- Fox: A sly fox who is best friends with Wolf.
- Tree: A talking apple tree.