The Outdoor Perspective

'The Outdoor Perspective' is an animation and soundscape that I created to reside within a group project/ event that we named 'I'mBalanced'. The purpose of my animation is to provide a meditative tool that users can watch and experience as it first and foremost acts as a reminder of how important time spent outside is for our mental wellbeing.

I took inspiration from the natural world around me and conducted research into mental health problems and solutions that informed my design choices.

To create the 'tactile world' that I wanted to convey, I focused on combining digital and analogue techniques, and used processes such as lino printing, photography, pen drawing to create my uniquely designed visual assets before editing and animating them together.

I created my soundscape taking sounds from my environment around me and using sounds that have particularly soothing connotations such as birdsong.

The video is focused around the 5 senses; there are parts you can see and hear, and there are opportunities for you to intuitively imagine the smells, tastes and physical sensations in each.

Watch the video, pay attention to the scenery around you and indulge your senses, we're going outside.

I'm Balanced

'I'mBalanced', is a mental health and wellbeing service that I designed with a few other coursemates during a collaborative university project. The service is located within the 'house', a concept that I imagined and realised, a nod to the 2020 pandemic and the isolation of our lives to our own homes. I ideated the slogan 'we're the house you're allowed into'. Our individual works were located within our own 'rooms', allowing the user to navigate our house and the activities/ resources within each.

Within our group, we each decided to offer different resources by communicating different themes, I chose to focus on the advantages of going outside for our wellbeing, whilst others provided ideas for inside activities that helped to protect wellbeing or more educational resources.

Once clicked on, my 'room' displaying my work and the appropriate information is located on the next web page.

The link to my animation is accessible through 'going outside', and clicking the window, reinforcing the message that the outdoors is the most grounding tool we have.

Other images from the project: