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Digital Apple News cover and animated feature for a special issue of BBC Science Focus on a fascinating neuroscience cover story by Dr Daniel Yon. “The Illusion of You”.
“Why everything you think isn’t what it seems…Your brain doesn’t see the world, it invents it. Welcome to the strange science of perception – and how to fix it when the illusion goes wrong.”

I was aiming for a striking image that makes a complex scientific theory accessible to a curious general public. Our brains can easily misperceive/misbelieve. Each of us lives in a version of reality shaped by our own assumptions and predictions. After playing with some ideas, the crystal ball trope just felt right.


The colour palette took advantage of the RGB digital platform, by leaning into the world of "dark magic" and really bringing the crystal ball metaphor to life with eerie neons.


Hand drawn in Procreate on iPad and animated on Procreate Dreams.