Katy Wang’s Earth Day animation is created using 2D animation, with like the soft and flowy visuals and this painterly style that gives the animation the handmade feel. Katy is a London-based animator known for creating emotional, thoughtful work that often focuses on nature and human connection. She pursued an art foundation course and later earned a BA in Illumination Animation from Kingston School of Art. After graduating in 2017, she begun building her portfolio with freelance commissions and was seen signed by Partizan, a production company, which helped her transient into directing. In the piece, she brings to life The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, a poet and environmentalist who writes abut finding comfort in the natural world. His poem is about stepping away from stressed and fear, instead turning into to the quiet and calm of nature, which was his message for Earth Day. Berry wrote the poem to express how even if life can feel so chaotic, nature continues to calm offer a space to breathe and reset. The animation was made in collaboration with illustrator Charlotte Ager and commissioned by the On Being Project.