Sarah Marino, a Character Designer and Background Painter at Nickelodeon Animation Studio, has announced the magical news in a post on her official Tumbler blog, Sarah Marino's Sketchblog, that Nickelodeon USA will start to premiere and show "Shimmer and Shine", Nickelodeon's brand-new animated preschool series, on Monday 17th August 2015 at 7:00pm!
To celebrate, Sarah Marino is sharing fantastic concept artwork from the production of Nick's all-new animated preschool series on her official Tumblr blog!
Additionally, to further celebrate Nickelodeon USA starting to premiere and show "Shimmer and Shine", Nickelodeon's brand-new animated preschool series, in August 2015, Nick USA has made the shows very first episode, "Genie Treehouse", available to watch online for free at NickJr.com and available to download for free on iTunes, ahead of the shows debut this Summer!
Shimmer & Shine Pictured: (L-R) Nahal, Shine, Shimmer and Tala in new animated preschool series, Shimmer & Shine, coming to Nickelodeon in 2015. Photo Credit: Nickelodeon. ©2014 Viacom International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Shimmer and Shine" is a brand-new animated preschool series that follows the magical adventures of fraternal twin genies, Shimmer and Shine, who unintentionally create chaos while attempting to grant wishes for their human best friend, Leah. The new series features an emotional-intelligence curriculum that highlights mistakes as an important avenue to learning and doing better next time. "Shimmer & Shine", greenlit for 20 episodes, is created by Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz and produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio. Watch these twin genies pop out of their genie bottle and get ready for your wishes to be granted!
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