‘Partition’

CBBC Newsround Special

Client: BBC, for CBBC Newsround - via ‘Made In Colour’

I was hired by Made In Colour to design the look of, and animate characters and effects in 2D. Animated in Adobe Photoshop.

The short won a Royal Television Society award in the ‘Craft & Design’ category in 2017.

Historic scene with people in traditional clothing under ornate arches, with a distant castle and palm trees in the background during sunrise or sunset.
Two women in white dresses and head coverings talking to each other in an alleyway, observed by two men wearing turbans.
Animated scene of a woman in white with a head covering, holding a child, surrounded by other women and men in traditional Middle Eastern clothing, inside a dimly lit room with light coming through windows.
A person in traditional clothing tending a large pot outside a fortress with stone walls and towers.
A woman wearing a headscarf sitting by a window reading a book illuminated by a lit candle.
An animated scene showing a mother holding her children tenderly inside a tent, and warm light creeps through.

“Ten-year-old Sumayyah, 11-year-old Shubhashukla and nine-year-old Kamolpriya travel from the UK to India and Bangladesh to find out what happened to their families during Indian Partition 70 years ago. Newsround asked us to animate one of their great grandmother's stories and her journey from Rampur to her new home in Pakistan.” - Made In Colour

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