PixFix
Museum of Visual Snow Syndrome
The Everlasting Picnic
Marvellous Mavericks
Grief is like Honey
Observation
Kerastase
Internship
About︎︎︎
︎ @cbernades_
︎ Christine Bernades
︎ christine.bernades0@gmail.com
2023 | Instruction: Short Animation | Supervised by Warren Taylor
“Grief is like honey” is a stop motion hand drawn animation video focused on the mental health of kids in Primary School (4-6), particularly on grief/loss and how to cope/process/deal with it.
It describes and compares the experience of grief to honey, a light-hearted concept that primary school kids would be more likely to digest and understand. Using honey as an analogy also enables kids to have a way of communicating their feelings when dealing with grief if they are having trouble expressing due to unfamiliarity and limited vocabulary.
Though a little tedious, the decision to create my animation on Procreate and hand draw frame by frame was to produce a more approachable and natural illustration style where strokes were still somewhat visible to appeal to my younger target audience whilst adding to my concept of honey and grief being a natural process that is not perfect or linear in the experience of them.
The use of only two colours (a cool toned brown and a warm yellow) was also to simplify the amount of information presented that needed to be understood by my younger target audience in creating clear distinctions between the bear and the honey.
