The 3D popular science animation Kiki & Nuna, originally created by Suzhou Aola Animation, was recently rated as the 2020 Excellent Domestic Animation by the National Radio and Television Administration, and recommended for broadcast to national TV broadcasting agencies. The works adhere to the correct value orientation to the majority of children, and have won universal praise with high artistic standards and production levels.

The broadcast of Kiki & Nuna was evaluated as follows: the film has created several very distinctive cute characters of small animals that evolved from spherical shapes, and popularized some scientific phenomena and knowledge to young audiences, as well as small common sense in daily life, through one problem after another they encountered in life; It adopts the method of role play and interactive experience to carry out popular science education for young audiences, which is very vivid and vivid; The image of an intelligent robot is newly set up, and integrated into the plot as much as possible, making the work more contemporary; Well-made, fresh and vivid picture, rich colors, comfortable color matching, good visual performance, dubbing and character matching, is an early encyclopedic enlightenment cartoon for preschoolers, which has a great appeal to young children.

In recent years, China's domestic cultural consumption and content consumption market has developed rapidly, and the proportion of animation industry in the Internet and cultural industry has steadily increased. With the development of modern technology, cartoons have entered the lives of young children in all aspects. Its bright colors, unique images and childlike language have undoubtedly become one of the easiest forms of education for young children to accept, understand and love. Then, how to play the positive role of cartoons in early childhood education has become a practical problem that needs to be solved urgently.

Throughout the market, there are not many domestic animation works suitable for 3-6 years old children to watch and the content is purely positive education for children, and 3-6 years old is an important period for children's intellectual development and personality improvement, and children at this stage have strong curiosity, attach importance to peer interaction, like to imitate, easy to use emotions to dominate behavior, thinking is mainly based on behavior and specific images. Therefore, in the world of Kiki & Nuna, there are no violent or negative characters, only six young protagonists who love each other, and a short story full of friendship, love and warmth, as well as knowledge or emotional cultivation. Therefore, the first season of "Kiki and Nuna" has been widely praised by parents and children since the launch of CCTV Children's Channel. Subsequently, the film was successively broadcast on Jiajia Cartoon Satellite TV, VOD platforms (Tencent, iQiyi, Acfun, Bilibili, Youku, Fengxing, Watermelon Video), IPTV/OTT, local stations, aviation media and other platforms.

Ⅰ Present popular science themes from life scenes

I believe that every parent has had the experience of being "asked" by their children, such as how many stars are in the sky? Where does electricity come from? Where did the banana seeds go? Children are naturally curious babies, and this curiosity is the key to opening the world of science. It is necessary for a country to develop science, children are the future of the motherland, and we have the obligation to protect children's curiosity so that they can always maintain their innate motivation to explore the unknown.

Because the science and technology involved in popular science is professional, it is not easy to describe clearly and not boringly. The first season of "Kiki and Nuna" provides children with scientific thinking enlightenment in the form of animation that children are happy to accept. When the main creative team was working on the pre-creation, they interviewed a lot of children, what would they be curious about? After collecting a large amount of data, the main creative team deeply explored the children's daily life scenes from the perspective of children, associated the life scenes with the premise of answering children's questions, and then carried out artistic expression and processing on this basis, and one by one interesting and loving stories were born.

The first season of Kiki & Nuna has a total of 104 episodes, 104 short stories hide 104 scientific knowledge, each episode of animation is designed according to the three sections of interesting story import, imagination space, and wonderful small classroom, imported from the life topics that children are interested in, restored real scenes, real things analysed, leading children to play imagination and participate in interaction. Of course, each episode has experts in the field to check the content to ensure that the knowledge involved in the cartoon is 100% correct. Therefore, "Kiki and Nuna" can also be used as a parent-child companion to watch together as a popular science animation, and the life scenes presented in the film can become a topic between parents and children, promote mutual relationships, and enhance family happiness.

Ⅱ Pass on popular science knowledge in a living form

In addition to accurately and clearly conveying knowledge to the audience, a good children's animation work should also be vivid and interesting. The creative team of Kiki & Nuna has worked hard in this aspect.

First, the character design is cute and interesting. The unique spherical bodies of the six cute protagonists in Kiki & Nuna are impressive. Curious little pig Kiki, helpful little elephant Nuna, love to read the sheep Mumu, mischievous chick Cici, love to sleep in the panda Popo, love to dress up the little rabbit Nini, each protagonist has his own unique personality and hobbies, just like children in real life, not perfect, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, but simple and real. The main creative team personifies the image of the animal, creating a group of animal images with distinctive personalities, coupled with vivid facial expressions, bright and bright colors and action language close to children of this age, it is easy for children to love it, and the acceptance of scientific knowledge is higher.

The second is to conform to the inner world of young children in terms of plot design. The interaction between the six children is not only childlike, but even a little funny, but the whole worldview is very clear about the boundary between good and bad. For example, when Kiki laughs at Cici's short stature, Nuna will encourage Kiki to apologize to Cici, who bravely apologizes to Cici after realizing her mistake, and Cici generously says it's okay. The inner world of young children is simple, but it is also clear between right and wrong. The plot content should be based on children's cognitive level and thinking ability, in order to enter the emotional world of children, arouse children's emotional resonance, and finally transmit correct values and scientific knowledge in nature.

The third is to develop artistic imagination. In Kiki & Nuna, the protagonist Pig Kiki calls Dr. A and assistant Xiaoyou to help answer questions every time he encounters a problem, but how can raw scientific knowledge become lively and interesting? Xiaoyou has a special skill, that is, he can lead children into the imagination space. In the imagination space, children can fly like butterflies, swim in the water like fish, fly to outer space like astronauts, and conduct all kinds of interesting experiments. These experiences that are impossible in real life can all be realized in the world of imaginative animation. Kiki & Nuna is a fun way to help the audience gain scientific knowledge and grow in joy.

目前，学习科学在学段上涵盖了大学、中小学、幼儿园，实际上包括了人类的终身学习。而幼儿园和小学阶段，是实施科学启蒙教育的最佳时期，儿童对自然和科学的兴趣，他们的科学思维能力、创造能力在这一时期若得到及时良好的培养，进入中学和大学后，或者进入成年后会便会得到高度发展。《奇奇和努娜》第一季作为一部适合3-6岁幼儿观看的科普动画，是值得推荐的。目前，奥拉动漫正在着实制作该系列的第二季动画，以行为习惯科普为主题，相信未来会以更高的艺术水准出现在大家面前。

At present, the science of learning covers universities, primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, and in fact, lifelong learning for human beings. Kindergarten and primary school are the best period for the implementation of science enlightenment education, children's interest in nature and science, their scientific thinking ability, creative ability if they are well cultivated in this period, after entering secondary school and university, or entering adulthood will be highly developed. The first season of Kiki & Nuna is recommended as a popular science animation suitable for children aged 3-6. At present, Aola Animation is actually producing the second season of the series, with the theme of behavioral habit science, I believe that it will appear in front of everyone with a higher artistic standard in the future.