During a design contest in 1995 to elect the ideal official mascot for the Expo 2000 in Hannover, Twipsy was chosen out of 17 proposals in total by an international jury, despite receiving only 1% of the public vote.
[1] According to Mariscal, Twipsy is a burst of energy who came "...from a distant past such as is the Big Bang, a spark in expansion that became a star, a cell, an invertebrate, a reptile, a bird, a mammal..." and into his present form.
[2] Additionally, Mariscal stated that it was his intention to "...embody the triangular aspects of the key theme "Humankind - Nature - Technology" in one figure... therefore [Twipsy] resembles a new type of being, a new human-animal-technological species."
"[3] On 1 November 1999, the animated series Twipsy aired on the German TV channel Der Kinderkanal with 52 short episodes, 13 minutes each.
The characters are displayed using computer graphics when they're residing in Cyberspace, and in the "real world" using conventional comic style.