Samphire Ubsdell

I’m Eloise, a University of York English Literature graduate, and cartoons have always been at the centre of everything I make. My dissertation, which was awarded a First, was on BoJack Horseman: how animation gives us a second life where hard things can be absurd, unfiltered and still bearable. I’m fascinated by unseriousness, and by the way we draw cartoon versions of ourselves to play out real life. That’s why film is where I want to work. Film lets us step into another way of being. Animation and VFX build that second world on screen, and the moving image gives it timing, sound and a sense that we’re inside it, which a page or a single drawing can’t quite do. It has always run through my own work. As Editor-in-Chief of the Lemon Press, my university’s satirical magazine, I led a team of fifteen and drew a comic strip for every issue. Now I draw a cartoon series every week on Instagram (@theseaweeddraws), and I’m always surprised by how a very personal thought can become a shared joke. I’m currently a production intern at Meaning Machine Games, I’ve produced a music festival for over 200 people, and I recently attended a client screening for a Sephora Christmas advert. I’m relia