Animation

Sunshine Coast Council

Get Ready School Program

SUNSHINE COAST COUNCIL

The Client

The Sunshine Coast is home to more than 365,000 residents and is one of Australia's most vibrant and rapidly growing commercial centres. Sunshine Coast Regional Council plays a central role in shaping the region’s future by planning and delivering essential services, infrastructure and community programs. Guided by a vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region, the council supports liveable communities through a wide range of local services.

The Challenge

The Sunshine Coast Council (SCC) delivers the Get Ready School Program in order to teach upper primary students about natural disasters on the Sunshine Coast. Through interactive classroom workshops, the program encourages students to think about how they and their families can prepare for emergencies like floods, bushfires, cyclones and severe storms.

The SCC engaged Ravel after seeing our animation work on QRA’s Get Ready Queensland program. Our team was asked to transform a static 20-slide PowerPoint presentation into a dynamic, 8-episode animated education series led by an anthropomorphic joey character.

Ravel's Solution

Ravel designed the lovable animated joey character, Jessie, using clean, stylised shape language and vector-drawn shapes. This style would later go on to be used in various print and marketing materials for the Get Ready campaign.

Our animation team then recreated a 2D pipeline in Blender, a 3D-based software program that allowed for more expressive character performance and dynamic visual compositions. Using this combined 2D and 3D workflow, the Get Ready series turned complex disaster preparedness concepts into an approachable, fun and visually compelling learning experience for students.

Client Feedback

The Schools Program has been underway since March this year and has been a resounding success with all schools to date thoroughly enjoying the new interactive platform, with overwhelming positive feedback.

The students absolutely love the animations and remain fully engaged for the full duration of the program. Once again, great job by all at Ravel on producing a quality education platform for our community.

Jason Membrey | Disaster Management Officer Disaster Management | Built Infrastructure Sunshine Coast Council

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