Why the Peppa Pig pregnancy bombshell is a bold new frontier for children's animation

Peppa Pig
(Image credit: Good Morning Britain/ITV)

With children's cartoons, you can usually rely on one thing: the characters don't age significantly, and they don't go through tremendous life changes. But Peppa Pig has flown in the face of this convention by impregnating Mummy Pig, which was announced today via a brilliant 'live stream' on Good Morning Britain.

Peppa Pig is 11 years old (the show itself, not the little piggy), and the family and the community that surrounds them have remained frozen in time since 2014. That means character design, universe design, timeline and plot devices have all been completely consistent in that time. But Mummy Pig's pregnancy will challenge this norm, and raises some questions as to how the animators will handle the changes.

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Georgia Coggan

Georgia is lucky enough to be Creative Bloq's Editor. She has been working for Creative Bloq since 2018, starting out as a freelancer writing about all things branding, design, art, tech and creativity – as well as sniffing out genuinely good deals on creative technology. Since becoming Editor, she has been managing the site and its long term strategy, helping to shape the diverse content streams CB is known for and leading the team in their own creativity.

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