Patients Matter is a podcast by the Daughters of Charity in Jobstown, Dublin, sharing real experiences with the mental health system. I created a short promotional animation using Procreate, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. With full creative control over the visuals, I developed a style that was engaging yet efficient to animate within a short timeframe. It was my first time syncing lip movements to dialogue, which added a rewarding technical challenge. I collaborated closely with the hosts and commissioners to ensure the animation supported the tone and purpose of the podcast effectively.

This showreel highlights my work as a motion graphics artist for Solavieve, a company dedicated to holistic healthcare and wellbeing through their wellness app, Holisticly. I created engaging animated videos to convey their vision and deliver essential information effectively. I learned that making non-fiction animations about intangible — but nonetheless scientifically valid — subjects such as health and wellbeing was surprisingly just as creatively demanding as making abstract or imaginative art, and for that, I really enjoyed myself.

Frame-by-frame animation can take a long time, and embroidery is among the slowest ways to create coloured images. A feature-length animation composed of nothing but embroidered frames would take an extremely long time. But I thought to myself, if I scaled it down, it would be a project I could do. This took me eight months — most of which was spent embroidering in my free time. I started with an animated sketch of 18 frames on my iPad, then traced it onto a large white piece of fabric. I embroidered each flower, then took pictures and strung the frames together to get this! It was a fun task, and I hope to do more of it in the future.