Visual Essays.
2.3 The Hand

Production essays exploring content and form.
My first, is about hand-drawn, analogue
processes, and digital production.

Catgot from Ho Tsz Wing on Vimeo.

This work was sent to me by Shyam Patel of
Merakee7. Supervised by Max Hattler at
City University of Hong Kong’s School of
Creative Media.

Forest: Just One Day from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

My favourite music video. Pure, simple, an
expression of lines, shapes and rhythm,
intuitive feeling and responses to music
by Irish, London based director Johnny
Kelly

Loop 4 from Drew Tyndell on Vimeo.

One of a series of short loops by Drew Tyndell

The Today Programme - David Attenborough from Why Not Associates on Vimeo.

The Today Programme promo - Kofi Annan from Why Not Associates on Vimeo.

The Today Programme - Jonny Wilkinson from Why Not Associates on Vimeo.

The Today Programme promo - Stephen Hawking from Why Not Associates on Vimeo.

A series of promos produced for BBC Radio 4’s
today programme by Why Not Associates.
Each is illustrated by a different designer
and animated in After Effects.

My Mother's Coat from Moth on Vimeo.

A beautiful graduation film by Marie-
Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits of Moth.
Animated using stop frame, drawn animated
fragments, representing memories.

Six Weeks In June from stuart hilton on Vimeo.

Stuart Hilton’s sketchbook, drawn, expansive,
imaginative, document of a journey, using 
loops and fragments of a road trip, from
1996.

My Dad from Marcus Armitage on Vimeo.

One of Marcus Armiatage’s brilliant, drawn
animations (I also love That Yorkshire Sound)
Eloquently drawn and beautifully animated,
in a childlike, sophisticated, and
playful style.

How We Got To Now / Montage (Emmy Winner) from Peepshow on Vimeo.

One of many brilliant animations by
illustration collective Peepshow. This is
illustrated by hand and composited in 3D
space using After Effects and digital production.


Conception: Catie + Jen from Moth on Vimeo.

One of New York Times’ Conception series, each
produced by a different studio, this by Moth.

Colorscope - White - CNN from Jocie Juritz on Vimeo.

One of CNN’s colorscope series, this explores
White, and is animated by Jocie Juritz. A
mix of traditional animation, looping
backgrounds, and some lovely transitions.
All of colorscope’s movies are on Vimeo here:
https://vimeo.com/channels/colorscope/page:2



I produced this film for The School of Life
in 2017. My ideas are about shades of
grey, exploring truth, love, and loss.



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University of Huddersfield
Sara Nesteruk