Daisy Jacobs and Tam Hoi Ying are the next big thing, says D&AD

Date
1 June 2016

Daisy Jacobs has managed to innovate traditional animation in an industry being taken over by computer graphics, and in doing so garnered the world’s attention. The 27-year-old animation director won Oscar and Bafta nominations last year, and has now been named as D&AD’s Next Director 2016, an award that aims to unearth the best new directorial talent.

Her animation, The Bigger Picture, features 20ft-high painted characters that jump out of life-size 3D sets, and use real props. This was a physically demanding task that saw the animators use their entire bodies to create an immersive setting for the story — an emotive depiction of the final months of Daisy’s grandmother Eileen’s life.

Director Dougal Wilson, who was on D&AD’s judging panel, said the piece was “a beautifully innovative animation technique that expressed the film’s story in a deeply emotional and affecting way.”

Also handed out at the ceremony was the Next Photographer award, in partnership with Getty Images, which went to Hong Kong-Chinese photographer Tam Hoi Ying. Her project, Being Disappeared — The Paradoxical Relationship between Human Rights and Law in China tackles the subject of freedom of speech in the Chinese regime.

The series of images aims to “challenge the paradox of the law protecting yet suppressing people’s freedom” says Tam. “When freedom of opinion and expression means inciting the subversion of state power… and the law becomes a weapon for the government to violate human rights – what can we rely on to protect us?”

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Daisy Jacobs: The Bigger Picture

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Tam Hoi Ying: Being Disappeared — The Paradoxical Relationship between Human Rights and Law in China

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Tam Hoi Ying: Being Disappeared — The Paradoxical Relationship between Human Rights and Law in China

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