[2] Plasmo Mega Studios, the show's production company, was founded in 1993 "with the express purpose of producing the stop motion animation series".

[3] Plasmo models were featured in the 1998 Canberra Design and Construction Exhibition Concepts, at the National Film and Sound Archive.

In this film, Plasmo is a young alien who is being sought by the bounty hunters Coredor and Brucho, although by the time of the TV series they have become his (somewhat grumpy) companions.

He haggled the price up to "cover some additional post production expenses" involved in the process of transferring the series to videotape.

The ABC did not financially back a future TV series "at this early stage", according to Lawrence they said they "would be interested in seeing something".

Lawrence started work on the project after applying for script development in 1990 from the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

Despite the pilot winning an Adelaide Children's Television Festival award, the series only became fully funded two years later, after a new producer became attached to the project.

CG was used in some scenes as in addition to chroma key, matte paintings, hanging miniatures, double exposures, peppers ghost, live action effects and rod puppetry.

The character designs, and the general look and feel of the show, changed a lot between the pilot and the series, which was produced a few years later.

[12] He explains the moral of Big Dam comes from the fact that "Plasmo's innocent and creative mind allows him to come up with solutions to gigantic problems yet using simple means.

"[14] He points out that Plasmo and the Golden Robot is "the first time we see the true bonding between the [four main] characters as they each stand up to an external threat".

[16] Plasmo, the main character of the series, is a "three and a half year old polybop" who is capable of shape-shifting.

This character was performed by Phillip Houghton (same actor as Coredor) who also wrote and composed the music for the series and Australian comedian Paul McDermott in the original 1993 version of Plasmo and the Bookworm.

The DVD contains all thirteen 5 minute episodes of the Plasmo series, in their original broadcast format, on one disc.

The majority of the work, which is entitled PLASMO, is essentially the 13-episode television series story told through the medium of the graphic novel.

The last 12 pages however "looks at never previously released comic and storyboard drafts of the series", and includes notation on both character development and design, and construction of the puppets.

[20] Of the final episode in the series, blogger Jackson Chew (under the pseudonym of Plasmo & the Infinite Sadness) writes "how can so much drama, selflessness, a beautiful soundtrack, poignancy and a silly bit of humour be packed into a 4 minutes and 37 seconds clay animation?".