ShapeTales

ShapeTales is a children's animated series created by Big World featuring anthropomorphic shapes in stories conveying moral themes based on Christianity.

History
The show was created by Mike Vischer and Phil Nawrocki when they wanted to create a series of videos teaching children about stories and lessons from the Bible, while making it fun and entertaining.

Mike originally started out in 1990 when he wanted to use candy bars as a basis. However, his wife obejected the idea, as she thinks it's a bad influnce on kids. So he drew a triangle and thought that was the best choice, shapes. He chose these objects as he said they were easy to animate as compared to characters with limbs, clothes, or hair because of the limitations on 3D graphics during the early 90s'.

Mike then joined with Phil Nawrocki, who they both did puppet shows in Bible college. Mike did one on "The Princess and the Rectangle", but telling it from the rectangle's perspective, but never made it as a puppet show. Ultimately, the sketches Mike drew became the basis for ShapeTales.

The name itself came from Phil Nawrocki, as he felt it was a good title as it was about shapes telling stories.

While Chicken Run is considered the first animation film to use computer imagery for film, ShapeTales is the second video series using that type of animation prior to the film's release.

The series started with only either one or two episode(s) per year, until the company grew and produced three videos per year as of 2014. In 2016, no new episodes of the series were produced, likely due to Big World being too busy making the Netflix series.

According to Mike in a recent podcast, Netflix will release 11 minute shorts exclusively along with new redesigns of the original cast. Not much is said about them, though Mike says that they have colored iris', similar to the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and their mouths are more dynamic. He also says that Fear's hair looks swirly.

Season 1

 * 1) Where's Circle When I'm A-Afraid?
 * 2) Circle Wants Me To Entertain Them!?!
 * 3) Are You A Muppet?
 * 4) Isaac, Tyler, and Gabriel
 * 5) Jimmy Neutron and the Giant Robot
 * 6) The Mater That Surfed Christmas
 * 7) Very Shapey Songs!
 * 8) QBT Alvin! And The Green One-Eyed Monster From Underwater!
 * 9) Timmy and the Humongous Structure!
 * 10) Madame Circle
 * 11) The End Of Seriousness?
 * 12) QBT Alvin and the Gruesome Robot

Season 2

 * 1) King Harold And The Ducky
 * 2) Ellen.. The Girl Who Became Queen
 * 3) Stanley The Kindly Viking
 * 4) The Ultimate Shapey Song Countdown
 * 5) Angelo Sing-Along Songs and More!
 * 6) The Star of Christmas
 * 7) The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment!
 * 8) The Ballad of Little Antonio
 * 9) An Easter Carol
 * 10) A Doddle's Tale
 * 11) Square of the Opera
 * 12) Danny and the Great Cookie War
 * 13) Louisiana Al and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush
 * 14) God of the Beans

Season 3

 * 1) Shapes Holmes and the Golden Ruler
 * 2) QBT Alvin and the Bad Circle
 * 3) Peter: Tuba Warrior
 * 4) Nemo and the Big Exit
 * 5) The Wonderful Wizard of Paws
 * 6) Circle Sawyer and Huckleberry Alvin's Big River Rescue
 * 7) Geo and the Amazing Promise
 * 8) Louisiana Al and the Search for Noah's Umbrella
 * 9) Saint Petersburg: A Story of Joyful Giving
 * 10) Pieocchio - The Little Sponge That Woodn't
 * 11) Sweetrectangle Beauty: A Girl After Circle's Own Heart

Season 4

 * 1) It's a Difficult Life
 * 2) Twas The Night Before Easter
 * 3) Princess and the Jazz Star
 * 4) The Little Key-tar Boy
 * 5) Robin Could and His Not-So-Merry Men
 * 6) The Priceless Princess
 * 7) The League of Unfrogetable Shapes
 * 8) The Little Hotel That Stood
 * 9) MacAlvin and the Stinky Cheese Battle
 * 10) Merry Alvin and the True Light of Christmas

Season 5

 * 1) Circle Night Fever
 * 2) Beauty and the Octagon
 * 3) Noahl's Ark

Feature Films

 * 1) Angelo: A ShapeTales Movie
 * 2) The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A ShapeTales Movie