ForEverglades: animating a cause.
The Elfenworks Foundation reached out to us to create visual storytelling for a cause: saving the Everglades. The wetland is threatened by litter and the destruction of nature, and facts alone rarely move people to act. The Foundation needed a story that makes audiences feel what is at stake and want to protect it.
Our Solution
We created ForEverglades, a hand-drawn 2D classical animated short. It follows Eli, a boy who loses his mother and holds on to the memory of a baby manatee he met in the Everglades with her. Years later he becomes a champion for the wetland’s preservation. Watercolor-rich opening scenes give way to a grayscale world that carries the weight of Eli’s loss, and the story’s hard cuts mark that contrast. The film shows that nature can heal and inspire, and why it deserves protection for the generations after us.