Online Grooming as Communication

Working with my studio Sleeping Giant, I illustrated and animated this series of animations for Project Dragon-S, an UN-funded research project being conducted at Swansea University.

The animations aim to explain the process of online grooming and how groomers build trust through communications. We utilised abstract shapes to narrate the concept - a simplified representation of a complex network of communications. We created the abstract characters with a dynamic and simple eye in the middle to bring it to life and express emotions naturally.