“A Host of Heroes” is Buzzco’s sixth short film for TED’s educational initiative, TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing, an open platform dedicated to providing high school and college teachers a new way to use video content on the web: a way of “flipping” web video into a basis for their own lessons along with context, follow-up questions and further resources.
The question challenges the audience to see the reason why human beings crave heroic characters to look up to.
Given the idea of heroes, superheroes came to mind and what better than a pop art/comic book style to illustrate various types of heroes?
Client: TED-Ed
Producers: Stephanie Lo, Jessica Ruby, and Gerta Xhelo
Writer/Narrator: April Gundenrath
Director/Designer: Candy Kugel
Animation: Rick Broas
Animation Producer: Marilyn Kraemer
Animation software: ToonBoom Storyboard and AnimatePro