Digital  (2025)

These editorial illustrations were created for an article that explored the various benefits that the choice of an animated medium can offer a filmmaker, when exploring complex or mature topics, in comparison with live action film.
The aim was to create a series of engaging and clear editorial illustrations that would link clearly to the article but also be visually pleasing to look at.

This spread depicts the idea that physical process of animation can bring an idea to life- as shown through reference to cels and an animated walk cycle.

‘To animate is to give life and soul to a design, not through copying, but through transformation of reality’
- Holloway cited in Understanding Animation (1998) by Paul Wells

This illustration explores how animation can offer a new, unfamiliar context for an audience to experience and explore complex ideas. This can therefore potentially remove any apathy or overexposure the audience may have towards the same issue presented in a live action context. 

This editorial illustration explores the potential wide and diverse audience animation can engage. Scholars suggest that animation allows for identification by a larger group of people due to its’ inherent simplification, and information presented in an animated format can increase audience retention

Animation can be interpreted in a wide variety of ways as a result of cultural backgrounds- as shown by the characters featured in this illustration’s varied expressions