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Want to capture your audience’s imagination? Try illustration!

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Text reading ‘The power of illustration’, surrounded by a selection of illustrations from Design102 projects, in a range of styles.

Illustrations can be really effective when you want to spark your audience’s imagination – which helps them understand and relate to your subject matter. Here we discuss this idea further and give our tips on creating powerful, imaginative and engaging illustrations.

Creating a rich picture and animation to illustrate Smarter Working

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A still image from the animation framework showing the ‘bare bones’ of the character rigging used to animate the action of movement in areas such as arms, legs and walking so our characters could go about their smarter working day. The rigging is comprised of different coloured sticks connected by dots that represent limbs and joints the limbs and joints of three humanoid shapes, two sitting and one standing. The sticks and dots can be manipulated to portray movement when illustrative graphics are overlaid

Follow the process we used to create the engaging ‘rich picture’ visual illustration of smarter working scenarios and principles within the Civil Service. Also view the short animated film we created, featuring those illustrated scenes, to further expand on details.

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