Rising Up Documentary – Northern Rivers Bundjalung cultural map and recovery illustration.

Rising Up: NGO Flood
Support Documentary

Film animator / Concept artist

CREATION PROCESS

After the devastating Bundjalung floods in 2022, Moving Image Media filmed a documentary based
on the community efforts and initiatives of rebuilding after the natural disaster.
Directed by Karenza Ebejer and Mitch King; The three of us worked together over numerus calls,
crafting their artistic vision. This was another wonderful project that put my research skills to work,
connecting Names, Totems and landscapes with their original mobs!

Rising Up NGO Flood Support Documentary – community rebuilding and Bundjalung totem concept art.Moving Image
Media

Rising Up: The Inspiring Stories of Community-Led Recovery

Film Description

In 2022, the DCJ NGO Flood Support Project supported 81 non-government organisations across the Northern Rivers with $2.1 million in funding.

This documentary highlights a selection of organisations providing critical services to the community during recovery efforts.

Concept Art:

Totem Concepts Process

Totem style concept illustration developed for a Bundjalung floods documentary project with Moving Image Media

concept sketches of totem styles, the final version being a blend of all three, picking out the client's favorite attributes throughout each one!

DONE USING: Procreate on iPad Pro

Bundjalung Map background

Final illustrated Bundjalung Nation map showing local mobs, recognised totems, languages and regional geography

The final version of the Bundjalung map, including the local mobs, locally recognized mob totems, and Bundjalung's many languages! Each scratched in detail is the local geography of the area.

DONE USING: Toon Boom harmony on Windows laptop and Wacom cinque drawing tablet

Map Animation

Here is the raw footage of my contribution to the film.
the blue screen was edited in post production to transition straight to each section of footage.