The Story of Our Teeth
The Educational Community Health Outreach program (ECHO) is one of the 13 local dental pilot projects (LDPP) funded through the California Department of Health Care Services. All projects created under ECHO are designed to promote the oral health of youth ages 0-20 in Los Angeles. Learn more about ECHO LDPP and their mission HERE.
This animation was created to inform the youth in educationally underfunded communities about the importance of good dental hygiene in a friendly and engaging manner. This project took 5 months to complete from concept to final production.
Take a peek at the process
Storyboarding and Scripting
Angela, Wendy, Dalila, and Michelle, the team of talented health care professionals, spent the first month of the project creating the script, the storyboard, and the general character concept. I joined the team for weekly status update meetings, and used this time to gather inspiration and research on the topics and ideas discussed.
Character Creation
The following weeks were spent working on the character design. It is important that the characters represent various age groups and ethnicities whilst still maintaining a focus on dental hygiene.
The final character design is organically shaped with enlarged lips and teeth to accentuate minute details like ridges, braces, silver caps and gaps.
Building the Components
The next 3 weeks were spent building the scenes, creating the mouth assets, and preparing all of the vector illustrated files for animation.
Compositing & Animating
The final weeks were spent animating, iterating, and compositing the final scenes.
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