An infographic film for Greece's first smart & sustainable island — and the CaRe car-recycling programme that keeps it clean. Concept-to-master: design, animation and the full sound mix, in Greek and English.
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Astypalea is becoming the first smart & sustainable island in the Mediterranean — a joint initiative of the Hellenic Republic and the Volkswagen Group to run a whole island on green energy and electric mobility.
The brief was to explain one pillar of that vision to residents and the public: the CaRe — Car Recycling Programme, which retires the island's old combustion vehicles and feeds them back into the loop. Abstract policy had to become something a local could watch in under two minutes and instantly understand. I took it end-to-end — script-to-screen design, animation, and the complete sound mix.
The art direction leans on the programme's blue / green / lime palette and a single idea: the island as a butterfly. Crisp line-icons, generous negative space and a continuous "road" that threads every scene together — so the film reads as one journey, not a deck of slides.
Animated in After Effects on a strict rhythm: the road draws on, elements build in sequence with the voice-over, and transforms (a combustion car becoming an EV, old fleets routing to recycling) do the explaining. Timing is keyed to the narration so the eye always lands where the words are.
I built the full soundtrack: directing and editing the Greek voice-over, scoring with a warm music bed, and cutting a layer of motion-matched SFX so every transform, counter and reveal has a sound. Three stems, one balanced master — below is the actual mix.
“A cleaner Astypalea is in our hands.” Η πιο καθαρή Αστυπάλαια περνάει από το χέρι μας.
