Young Master Challenge —Buzz Explainer Film
My role
- Idea & concept
- Storyboard
- Character
- AI image & video production
- Edit & motion
Year
2025
Discipline
Format
Animated explainer · 2:38 · 16:9
Also
Winners’ interviews · 2026
Tools
The Young Master Challenge is an international English and maths competition for young learners. It had almost no visuals, and nobody could tell what it actually was. I answered with one character: Buzz the bee.
The problem
The project was hard to explain. There were very few visuals to show, and people couldn’t tell whether it was a competition, an olympiad or a trip.
One character tells it all
We chose a character. Buzz became the face of the challenge on the website and in the animation, and tells the whole story beautifully.
The film does what words couldn’t: the beginning, the middle and the end are linked with fast transitions, and the project is finally clear.
From 3D to AI, without losing time
The film started in traditional 3D software and was converted to AI part way through — without wasting extra time, which is genuinely hard to do.
Good communication showed us the real problem: the team didn’t know how much the costs would grow, and they needed it finished faster. That was the problem the switch to AI actually solved.
One cast, every angle
Buzz and four children carry the whole film. Each of them was designed as a full turnaround — front, three-quarter, side and back — so they stay the same character in every scene.
Turnarounds
Winners’ interviews · 2026
At the 2026 Global Final in London we filmed the winners. The interviews became a 4:30 film and two vertical parts for social media: questions on yellow strips, photo montages of the challenge and the trips, and word-by-word captions on the vertical cuts, which are framed on the speakers’ faces.
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