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= Hannah Jacobs =

Hannah Jacobs is an Illustrator and Animator from London. She has been in the animation and illustration business for 9/10 years and is interested in where the everyday meets the surreal, how they intertwine, and how one informs the other. She likes to work with handmade elements – pencil, printmaking, fragments of paper – to create a glimpse into different worlds and landscapes. Her work is created digitally, it has a distinctive handmade aesthetic thanks to her skilled use of texture and colour.

= Early life and education =

Since the age of 4, Hannah Jacobs always loved drawing and watching cartoons. She was really into Garfield comics and Asterix and Oblix. She was interested in the whole language of comics and how you can tell little stories through a series of pictures. She always loved writing stories and loved drawing so it was a very natural progression into animation. She went to Brighton University in 2004 and graduated with a BA in Illustration in 2007. She also went to The Royal College of Art and graduated in 2013 with an MA in Animation.

= Design Career =

Hannah Jacobs has been working as a freelancer since she graduated in 2013. In 2019, she signed to production company Strange Beast, and she now splits her time between working at home and at Strange Beast’s London studio. Hannah's body of work across both illustration and animation has covered a broad range of subject matters. She often focuses on her sympathetic study of human nature. She is well known for her deliberately organic style and her ability to give a human and emotional touch to all of her work. She works in 2D frame-by-frame animation, which means there are 12 individual illustrations to every second of animation. The process starts with sketching out ideas by hand, before designing individual frames which are then coloured and animated in Photoshop. She has a unique ability to combine subtle humour and wit with more emotional and heavier themes, communicating through vibrant colour palettes and beautifully textured hand-rendered illustrations. She also has success with short films, screening worldwide at festivals including official selection for SXSW, Tribeca, Annecy Festival, LIAF, MONSTRA, and Rooftop Films. Clients; Apple, Netflix, Google, The New York Times, Headspace, BBC, Facebook, Vogue, Ted-Ed, Penguin, The Washington Post, VICE. Her work is diverse – she has tackled a wide range of topics from solar eclipses to parenthood. One project that she really enjoyed creating was ‘Your Mounting Is Waiting’ which was for the BAFTA film festival, she enjoyed how she could be created and go anywhere with the project whereas if she does animations for commercial projects it is more set to a brief and not as free. Hannah Jacobs best achievement was making the list of one of Vimeo’s best vids of 2015. And more recently having a film accepted to the Annecy Film Festival. It’s been an aim of hers to go there for so many years, and she is really proud to have something of hers screened there. Hannah finds working alone and at a computer for the majority of projects I work on challenging. And the sheer volume of hours that goes into making an animation. It is all really time-consuming. She enjoys being able to bounce ideas around with someone else and finds it easier to be more creative.

= Awards =

Hannah Jacobs was nominated for a BAFTA for her animation ‘Your Mounting Is Waiting’, Jacobs tells her story with a subtle, gorgeous fluidity as her protagonist Martha, who is wrestling with her sense of intuition, smoothly drifts from quiet and introspective moments into vast surreal dreamscapes. Hannah designed and directed the animation, she worked with Harriet Gillian who was Screenplay and Lead Animator and Produced by Zoe Muslim at Strange Beast.

= Refrences =

https://www.thesohoagency.co.uk/illustrators/hannah-jacobs

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-jacobs-b104b11a/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://www.asff.co.uk/filmmaker-focus-hannah-jacobs/

http://xeth.co.uk/art-and-design/xeth-meet-hannah-jacobs/

https://www.hellohannahjacobs.com/

https://www.strangebeast.tv/artists/hannah-jacobs/

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/hannah-jacobs-animator-illustrator/

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/hannah-jacobs-illustration-animation-300719

https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/hannah-jacobs/