Colourful animated video of children brushing their teeth to a fun and catchy song.

The Brush Song

animation illustration

A fun animated song to play to your kids while they brush their teeth, or distract them while you do!

Problem

Queensland Health needed a resource to assist parents with brushing their children’s teeth. Identifying a lack of interest they sought to create something fun and engaging.

Solution

Starting out with engagement, the focus was on creating a diverse line-up of characters reminiscent of children’s TV shows. These were then set to a song created by the team at Queensland Health. The animation aimed to educate by showing best practices and entertain by breaking up the repetition with cut away scenes and simple in-scene jokes for the kids to spot.

The result ended up being bright and cute and a lot of fun to make. It was very well received, making an appearance on the news and over half a million views and counting.

Role

Direction, Character Design, Illustration & Animation

Credits

Client: Queensland Health Direction, Animation & Illustration: Cameron Pyke & Tom Ward Music: Dan Smith

Illustration of two characters and a dog in a bathroom setting. Left girl and dog watch middle girl applying toothpaste to her brush in a flamboyant way.

Illustrated character lineup. Colourful children, adults and a dog in a bathroom setting.

Collection of illustrated characters and props used throughout the animation.

Colour palette used throughout the illustration and animation and a break down of the vector shapes used to create one of the characters.