For this project, as a group, we were tasked with designing a narrative driven animation for the clients we had previously worked closely with – Wessex Museums. The idea was to base our narrative off the themes of love and war and use Hardy’s book, The Trumpet Major, as inspiration for our design. This animation would be used for one location of the four that is hosting the travelling exhibition of “Hardy’s Wessex: The Landscapes that Inspired a writer”, of which we previously did the branding for.

Technically, we would have to come up with a storyline/narrative to follow, an art style and decide whether we’d want to do the animation entirely digitally, incorporate mixed media or hand craft and film the entire thing. The animation would need to last at least 45 seconds and appeal to all audiences throughout the museum’s demographic to help people of all ages and Hardy fanatics to understand the themes and meanings within his work.

My Team: Harriet Lee, Olivia Allan, Dan Smart and myself.

Check out my project's entire design process here!