Solomon Islands – intro
animations
Animated adventures in the Solomon Islands
Services
Animation
Client
BIG hART, PLAN INTERNATIONAL,
PIKININI TV
This project is part of a lager intercultural initiative led by Big hART called Storytime and Play. The program brought together Big hART Australia, Plan International, and Pacific nations to foster cultural storytelling between parents and children, and my contribution was to create vibrant and engaging intro animations for children’s TV series in the Solomon Islands, Niue, and Samoa.
For the Solomons Island animation, my brief was to create three distinct scenes for an animated version of the show’s main character to travel through to reach her grandparents’s house after school—a town, an ocean and a jungle. Most of the illustrations were created by children in the Solomon Islands during workshops facilitated by Big hART, and I worked with a large amount of individual drawings to build visually cohesive scenes. My aim was to preserve the wobbly charm of these original drawings while subtly unifying them with a vibrant palette, hand-drawn textures, and humorous looping movements—ensuring the final product remained true to the illustrations’ playful essence.
Accompanied by the catchy song, the animation is a bold and joyful reflection of places familiar to children from the Solomon Islands.
CELEBRATING CHILDREN’S CREATIVITY
The animation features the children’s original drawings.
While unified with a cohesive colour palette and hand-drawn textures, it was important for me to keep the adult lens to a minimum, and maintain the spirit and creativity of the original illustrations. Roll over the images below to see the original drawings.
AFTER SCHOOL JOURNEY
City, ocean, jungle
From the bustling main street, through to a canoe journey around the islands (left) and a walk through the lush jungle, my brief for this animation was to create three distinct scenes that the main character journeys through to get to her grandparents’ house after school.
Using illustrations made by children in the Solomon Islands, I also created a series of colourful transitions for use throughout each TV episode (below).
