My aim as an animator is to make models of disabled characters to challenge the assumptions people have about disabled people.
If I put a female character in a wheelchair people ask,
"Will she be wearing a bandage?"
No, she's not ill.
"A girl in a wheelchair, how sad."
No, it's not sad, it's everyday life for a lot of people.
I'm searching for the right materials and a suitable setting, experimenting with 2D and 3D images. I'm attempting realism, meaning contemporary, everyday settings. People say:
"Doesn't a wheelchair have giant back wheels?"
No, look around you, they don't.
More to follow, with moving images.
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