Thesis at Ringling
Animal Neighbours
A Public Service Announcement
My thesis is about creating Public Service Announcement (PSA) advertisements/ campaigns for protecting wild animals that live around human areas. These are a series of 2D stylized animations, and each one is an individual short story with a different symbolic animal in the general North American area. I want to combine both educational purpose and humor. I believe laughing can help people remember new things better. Besides, there are always funny moments when humans interact with animals.

A Project Statement
This thesis helped me understand how animals are affected by humans, especially the animals who live in neighborhoods and suburban communities. Perhaps, these animals may have to change their behaviour based on humans and the surrounding artificial environments. Based on personal experience and anecdotal stories, I became inspired to create several entertaining, sarcastic, but educational stories about humans and animals coexisting and call attention to this serious problem.
By researching and learning from the findings of biologists and scientists who conducted data collection and field investigations, this thesis suggests that human activities impact the survival patterns of animals, including their access to food, territorial resources, overall health, and behavioral patterns. Among these effects, the negative impacts are predominant. However, we should still maintain an optimistic attitude toward the coexistence of humans, animals and their habitats. We can draw lessons from existing examples and develop modern, adaptive coexistence models that positively influence suburban wildlife.





