Go Canada – Grain Elevators – Pilot Episode

Go Canada is an animation/live action documentary series developed by Cheshire Smile Animation, Kids CBC, and SCN, for 2-6 year old children starring Canada: an inspired, animated map of our favorite country.

Inspired by kids, her audience, Canada travels our nation discovering and exploring entertaining, educational and cool stories about iconic elements of Canadian geography, locations and life. Canada is possessed by an insatiable curiosity for the country where she lives. As the host, Canada, leads the adventure, but she learns alongside the children viewing the show as she discovers, explores and experiences special places within the Canadian Community.

 

 

Go Canada – Theme Song

At Cheshire Smile we have been developing Go Canada a 26 x 3 miniute preschool series that combines animation and documentary footage in a series of vignettes that explores iconic Canadian destinations with our host – “Canada” a bright green map of – you guessed it CANADA. Part of our development process with CBC Kids has been the creation of a demo / pilot episode. Being based in the prairies we decided that we would explore grain elevators as our theme. They are very cool structures.

We shot the harvest and grain elevator footage last fall and have been working to create the pilot since then. We have a couple of animators working right now (Chris and Jason – you rock!) to get the animation completed. Look for a preview of the pilot shortly.

The project is currently at an exciting point because we are finally nearing the end of one phase in this journey, which brings me to the point of this post.

Ross Nikiforiuk of Cosmic Pad Studios in Saskatoon created this wonderful theme song for the show.

Check it out and let us know what you think.

Go Canada, is in development with Cheshrie Smile Animation Inc, CBC Kids Television, and the Saskatchewan Communications Network.