SolarBalls (Series)

From the creators of MrSpherical, SolarBalls is a Planetballs/Spaceballs channel where you'll get to meet the planets of our Solar System, who are NOT what you are expecting. You'll be having so much fun with their personalities, it'll be too late when you notice you're learning all sorts of interesting things.

## SolarBalls

### Genre

EducationalComedy
Drama
Sci-fi

### Country

International
United Kingdom (channel description)

### Cast

Jack Stansbury
Lizel Jackson
Unknown

### Language

English

**SolarBalls** is a British edutainment web series on YouTube created by Alvaro Calmet, who is also known for creating other YouTube-based animation such as MrSpherical. The series focuses on the planets and other objects of the solar system as they interact. The SolarBalls channel is managed by NowCreatives.

As of November 13, 2023, the channel currently has 1M subscribers and 90 videos, including shorts, compilations, and episodes.

## About

SolarBalls is a spin-off show of MrSpherical, which also uses ball-shaped avatars to represent different characters, similar to the PlanetBall artstyle. Unlike its predecessor, SolarBalls features continuity between videos. This means each video is part of a storyline and characters may retain knowledge and memories of events prior to the video.

The main humanball in the story, Astrodude, gets to explore the solar system (and beyond!) as part of his space mission. However, he soon discovers that space isn't what it seemed to be. As Astrodude goes on different adventures, the lives of different planets, moons, and everyone else are slowly revealed.  Through their interactions, the series answers different questions related to outer space. Though mostly lighthearted, there are some serious moments as well.

## Channel description

What if we could see the universe from a different perspective? If we were not constrained to Earth's gravity, and we could just fly across space and see the planets from up-close?

Well... we'd probably freak out after we notice they have a face! From the creators of MrSpherical, SolarBalls is a Planetballs/Spaceballs channel where you'll get to meet the planets of our Solar System, who are NOT what you are expecting.

You'll be having so much fun with their personalities, it'll be too late when you notice you're learning all sorts of interesting things.

## History

SolarBalls channel was created on May 5, 2022. Its first video, ""Space is normal" they said...", was released on June 1, 2022. It received immediate success, accumulating 100,000 subscribers in a month (partially thanks to the sponsoring and promotion in the counterpart channel, *MrSpherical*).

The first long video "Is the Moon REALLY leaving us?", was released on September 20, 2022. Since then, the channel has released more frequent long videos, instead of shorter ones.

## Milestones

### Subscriber milestones

* **100,000 subscribers**: June 12, 2022
* **500,000 subscribers**: October 14, 2022

### Video view milestones

* **100,000 video views**: June 1, 2022
* **1 million video views**: June 5, 2022
* **10 million video views**: June 24, 2022
* **100 million video views**: December 17, 2022