Team Rescue - Series Pilot

The Client

Australian firefighter and owner of KidzKanDo, Tony Chicco, collaborated with the original Yellow Wiggle, Greg Page, to produce a children’s edutainment franchise called Team Rescue. The TV series followed a team of first responders and aimed to teach children essential and practical safety messages through engaging characters, storytelling, and an originally scored soundtrack.

The Challenge

Originally developed as a live-action mini-series for ABC iView, Team Rescue’s creators wanted to relaunch the series to better align with modern family audiences. Fotomedia was brought on to adapt the show into a 3D animation action-adventure series based off KidzKanDo’s pre-established ‘Kewbz’ character style as the visual basis.

The Solution

Fotomedia collaborated closely with KidzKanDo to redesign the original Team Rescue characters, drawing inspiration from their 2020 live action personalities, but expanding on them to accommodate for longer form episodic and serialised storytelling opportunities. Animation production on the teaser was done entirely in-house, including worldbuilding, artstyle, animation and post-production. The teaser was developed in conjunction with a robust series bible to support Tony and Greg’s efforts to engage with broadcasters and streaming platforms and bring Team Rescue to the market.