Design and Behaviour Computer Animation for Children

Introduction

The design of three-dimensional characters for a children audience is not an easy task (Cipolla-Ficarra, Quiroga & Carré, 2012) if the copyrights in analogical support material are respected, and also digital of everything that exists down to our days. Besides, it is necessary to point out the differences among characters that are presented for the first time to the potential users of interactive systems or classical audiovisual (Cipolla-Ficarra, 2012) from those which have as a previous support a literary text, for instance. In this work we will focus on a computer animation collection, with an excellent communicability such as the TV series Chuggintown (www.Lodurum.com). The first collection of episodes contains 52 animations, with an 11 minutes duration (the whole listing in the Appendix and those which have enclosed a star-shaped character (*), means that they make up our universe of study. In each episodes the three learn new things to reach their main goal, that is, becoming expert trains. Their deeds take place in the town of Chuggintown.

Figure 1.

Main and secondary characters of the computer-animated series