The Hague Cultural Education

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Introduction

The Hague Cultural Education (COH) has been initiated to ensure the quality of education in primary education. COH, an initiative of CultuurSchakel, allows children to experience culture and challenges them to imagine their ideas. This happens during arts and culture lessons by the teacher, an artist in the classroom or visiting an exhibition, film, music or theater presentation.

Animation series

Assigned by CultuurSchakel, Motoko developed a series of 16 animations for the Hague’s primary schools. Titled “De Haagse Ladekast” (dutch for “The Hague’s Dresser”) these animations are shown in the classroom on the smartboard during the arts and culture lessons. Each animation tells a short story about a character that makes a cultural exploration. Disciplines such as painting, music, dance and film form the base of the stories.

Watch all 16 episodes

http://www.motoko.tv/en/production/animation/cultuuronderwijs-op-zijn-haags/

Illustrations

In addition to the animations, Motoko developed a library of assets: campaign images for social media, a playing cards set, flyers and 128 illustrations supporting website and class material.

Visual style

In addition to the animation production, the development of the series also includes the design of the visual style and the creation of a family of characters. For example, we designed characters for four different age groups. Each character represents an age group and plays a leading role in any animation.

Furthermore, we gave shape to “The Hague’s Dresser”: this character has the role of sidekick helping the characters in every story.