Pingu is a British-Swiss claymation children's television series created by Otmar Gutmann and produced from 1990 to 2000 for Swiss television by The Pygos Group, and from 2002 to 2006 for English-speaking television by HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. It centres on a family of anthropomorphic penguins who live at the South Pole, and the main character is the family's son and title character, Pingu.