The Guardian and Beconase commissioned Kong Animation Studio to create an animated video to be a part of The Guardian's sponsored campaign The Summer of '25. I was selected to direct, design and animate the project. This included storyboarding, creating style frames and animating. 

This was such a fun packed project to design and animate! I loved the concept. It felt so playful to come up with ways to show a character’s frustration with hay fever when they’re just trying to have the best time at a festival. Drawing all the pollen and flowers was right up my street as I like to work with vibrant colour and hand made textures.

Working with the Beconase brand colours initially felt challenging, but I often work with lots of blues and oranges, so with a few added pops of colour the style frames really came together. I wanted to stay within the concept that The Guardian had proposed to us and reference a 60’s style of drawing, and so referenced 60’s music festival posters which had these vibrant colours over gradients. I’m really pleased with the outcome.