Tintin Lindkvist Nielsen and I were commissioned by the poet Hollie McNish to make an animation for her poem ‘Fifty Ways to Wank’, presented in her book titled ‘Slug: and Other Things I’ve Been Told to Hate’.

This animation was used as a promotional video in connection with the release of Hollie McNish’s new book.

The poem is a celebration of female masturbation: aiming to remove the stigma surrounding the topic.

This animation was digitally hand-drawn frame by frame. Tintin Lindkvist Nielsen and I worked carefully to merge our illustration styles together to make the scenes we animated blend well after one another. We decided on a mostly black and white colour palette to make our sparing use of colour stand out and hold focus.