Aardman

The Legends Family ADVENTURE

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At the start of summer 2020 I had the privilege of working for Aardman Animations teamed up with Google, Parent Zone and creative agency Toaster to bring the magic of Interland, Google’s free online safety game for families, into homes through another platform. The game has a low-poly style and an array of appealing characters that became our cornerstone to develop and craft three x two minute episodes from script to final render! All this with the full team working remotely in different countries (and, sometimes, time zones)!

Visual Style.

We gave each main Internaut character enough variation and bespoke details to be recognisable, while remaining faithful to the proportions and shapes of the original game. We worked hard to avoid any gender stereotypes in their appearances, in line with Interland’s universe. We really wanted the whole Interland world to feel welcoming, warm and friendly (the Internet can be a wonderful place indeed, with the right precautions). In order to achieve that, we decided to adopt a soft miniature look for the environments (making large use of defocus and depth of field) while giving the vast cast of main characters (6 Internauts and 4 villains) a tactile, toy-like feel, adding roughness and imperfections to their surfaces.

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