Animation created for the Catholic aid agency, CAFOD, it encourages children and young people to reflect on journeys made in history and by their own families. It explains that the refugee crisis is global, yet the vast majority of refugees stay close to their home countries.
CAFOD asked me to help bring to life the illustrations created for them by Rachel Summers. Her style is very tactile and hand-made so it obviously needed to be frame by frame animation, but given the time and budget constraints we had to embark on the challenge of mimicking the look while doing it justice in After Effects. We created a set of parts using her textures and for most characters it meant creating twice the amount of assets to maintain the ‘boiling line’ look.
French version for Cafod’s Canadian counterpart “Développement et Paix”
The animation was also localised for various regions around the world, which involved new graphics, voice over and all text assets. Knowing this in advance I rigged the project accordingly to avoid the all important localisation process becoming an unnecessary burden on the client’s budget.
Client: CAFOD
Script: Kathleen O’Brien & Gemma Salter
Direction: Studio Tinto
Illustrations: Rachel Summers
Animation: Alex Amelines
Sound: Chris Harrington