NSPCC / Will's Story

Wills Story uses stop frame animation and paper to take us through his experience with self harm. Our aim was to raise awareness around the rise in self-harm, without actually showing self-harm. We used torn paper to help us sensitively illustrate the subject matter. CLIENT / NSPCC DIRECTOR / GUY SAVILLE WRITING / GUY SAVILLE ANIMATION / YUKA TAKEDA SOUND DESIGN / ROB MANNING View more of our work at: 3angrymen.com/ Or follow us:
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Client / NSPCC

Director / Guy Saville

Writing / Guy Saville

Animation / Yuka Takeda

Sound Design / Rob Manning

An emotionally delicate animation about self-harm, how it can affect young people and the remedial power of talking about trauma.

The NSPCC challenged us to find a new way to portray self-harm, to create a film that could provide gentle reassurance and guidance to an extremely sensitive target audience, without using potentially triggering imagery.

The film was used as a resource on the new Childline website. Yuka Takeda’s combination of hand-drawn illustration and stop-motion papercraft technique was awarded a Lovie for Best Animation.