Documentary
Terror in Tigray
October 27, 2021
Civil war has displaced many in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and there is no end in sight to their misery. VOA’s Heather Murdock travels to the largely cut-off conflict zone, as well as refugee camps in neighboring Sudan, to bring the story of a complex political situation and the growing humanitarian disaster.
RESPONSIBILITIES
I researched and developed the visual style and color palette for the animations used in the documentary.
Working closely with the script and interview transcripts, I animated a series of vignettes. The animations were based on first-person accounts of refugees describing their experiences.
I created storyboards, rough animatics, and produced the final animations using Procreate.
I also rotoscoped a series of animated portraits to introduce key people in the documentary.
I used After Effects to edit the animations and synchronized them with the interview audio.
Finally, I designed the documentary’s poster and landing page.