during september of 2020, i got the opportunity to create animated illustrations for Bentley Priory museum's exhibition, called "Defending Britian from Nazi and Nuclear Threat". 

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the main focus of the exhibition was the museum's secret bunker, which was extremelly crucial to British air defence from WWII and throughout the Cold War.

i was asked to illustrate and animate country flags, maps and different events from the cold war period. my animated illustrations were used in the exhibition's projected video, which was a timeline of cold war events. my illustrated gifs accompanied the text in the video.

i started off this project by playing a lot with my paintbrushes' textures. i wanted everything to look quite messy and sketchy because i felt like that perfectly defined cold war.

 when i had the right textures, i was able to create all the cold war participant country flags out of those textures themselves.

after designing all the flags, i moved onto the maps. i had to animate a map of Berlin occupations and a map of three designated flight paths to Berlin during the cold war. these were the final outcomes:

some of illustrations regarding atomic bombs and the Berlin air lift, which were animated later for the video:

i also recreated posters from the cold war's protests, which were aimed to stop the use of nuclear weapons. 

some photos from the exhibition: