31 May 2024

Aurelia Lange’s Animations for Neurodiversity Charity Starling

Posted in: Animation, Special projects

Starling, a UK charity that hosts creative projects exploring positive identity and creative expression with neurodivergent young people, have commissioned Aurelia Lange to animate a series of informative clips. They explore the needs of neurodivergent people in public spaces, with Aurelia’s painterly style used perfectly to create warm and digestible snippets.

Explaining a bit more about the project, Aurelia said:

“The brief stated that the visual style should be uncomplicated (i.e. not too many things going on at once) and for the animations to be as ‘smooth’ as possible as this can be helpful for neurodivergent people with visual processing challenges.
Being a part of this project was great to understand how public spaces and services can communicate better to make experiences more comfortable and accessible for a variety of needs. It involved researching existing spaces that are practicing these approaches and gave me a new appreciation of this and understanding.”

How did you decide on the colour palette? 

I split the colour palette of Starling’s brand identity across the 4 videos to differentiate them and show variation of the characters I had designed to represent the voices. As the same voices repeat in all 4 animations I enjoyed bringing them in and out in the different colourways.

Are the animations based on real people?

The audio clips are taken from real interviews and if I had more time and in hindsight it would have been great to have met the real podcasters and draw from them ! The brief timing was not so long a turn around and I wasn’t given the opportunity this time. The characters are made up but developed from original references in my sketchbooks of drawing people out and about.

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