AnimaChild - Brazilian Legends is an animated series made using the 2D Digital animation technique, in the format of 13 episodes of 5 minutes each. Each episode is about a Brazilian legend told from the perspective of a child. The series uses the children's original drawings and stories as a starting point for the production of the episodes. It respects children's imagination and the visual aesthetics of their drawings. In each episode, a different child narrates their vision of a Brazilian legend, as if they were telling a curious or incredible case from their own point of view. The result of this process is a series that combines figurative and abstract language to illustrate national legends.
The series was shown on TV Cultura in 2017 and distributed to six countries, as well as being available on Amazon Prime and on AnimaFlix's official YouTube channel, with over 30 million views.
Concept
The central concept of the project is to understand in each episode the real relationship between the child, their illustration and their narrative voice, in other words, their own interpretation of a Brazilian legend. We provoke the child narrator to insert themselves into the narrative, going from being a simple narrator to a protagonist and thus leading the tale to an unexpected outcome. Considering that the Brazilian Legends are popularly known, this narrative interference creates a new moment and place in the stories, which would otherwise just be reproductions of the legends in the traditional molds. The project provides a unique opportunity to understand children's perception of Brazilian legends and its materialization in the form of their artistic production; while the professional intervention always takes place in a delicate way, trying to maintain and enhance the child's original idea as much as possible, giving life to these original concepts created by the children. The uniqueness of each point of view (of each child) determines a different tone for each episode, determined mainly by the direct relationship between the child and the emotion they feel about the legend in question.
Visual Conception
Based on the child's original drawing, our team focused on capturing the essence of the visual aesthetic to then produce all the elements of the episode in question. The reproduction of the visual concept on the digital platform used paper textures in all the elements, so that the child's production remained present; as if the children themselves were cutting out their drawings and telling their story in the form of animation. The book Brazilian Legends is the result of the children's collective work in putting together new stories about each legend. The episode begins with the child who is going to tell the story opening the book to their chapter. Depending on the dramatic point of the plot, we are taken out of the story to watch these characters interact with the book itself, making it another element of the narrative.
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