Pucio is a 2D animated preschool television series based on the popular children’s book series by Marta Galewska-Kustra. The show is designed to support early childhood development, with a strong focus on language acquisition, communication, and everyday situations familiar to young audiences.

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The series translates the original book illustrations into an animation-ready visual language, preserving their warmth and recognisability while adapting the designs to meet the technical and storytelling needs of a TV production.

 

My Role

I work as a 2D Character and Prop Designer on Pucio, contributing to the ongoing series. My role involves adapting existing book characters into production-ready animation designs, as well as designing supporting characters and props used throughout the show.

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Character Design Focus

My work on Pucio focuses on:

• Preserving the identity and charm of the original book characters

• Creating clear, readable designs suitable for animation

• Ensuring consistency across characters and episodes

• Supporting expressive yet simple performance for a preschool audience

 

Characters are developed with animation in mind from the outset, balancing faithful adaptation with practical production needs such as clean shapes, clear proportions, and strong silhouettes.

 

Contribution Highlights

• Adapted book characters into animation-ready designs

• Designed additional supporting characters

• Created props to support everyday actions and storytelling

• Prepared clean, production-ready assets

• Collaborated closely with art direction and the production team

• Supported the animation pipeline through Toon Boom Harmony clean-ups

 

Production Context

Working on an ongoing preschool TV series requires close attention to consistency, clarity, and usability across episodes. The project combines adaptation work with original design problem-solving, strengthening my experience in IP-based series production and animation-focused character and prop design.

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Artwork shown is production work created for the series and shared here for portfolio purposes.