Stella Belle Hex
Belle Hex is the brainchild of award-winning, multifaceted animator-director, Stella, who tells stories through various forms of visual language. With her background in animation and graphic design, alongside her playful relationship with illustration and installation, she creates content for music videos, theatre and performance, festival stages and commercials. Having collaborated with a diverse mixture of individuals and companies, her management skills and experience in client-based interactions are also well established. Utilising skills from varied specialisms ensures broad experimentation in her design approach, whether for broadcast or live events.
[Clients : Live]
Commonwealth Games • Take That • The XX • XFactor • Greenpeace • Magic Mike • Giudizio Universale • Shipwreck • Instagram X Canns • Joey Yung • Glastonbury • Jupiter Artland • Westham United • Luke Halls • Nina Dunn • Tal Rosner • Fluffer Pit Parties • Smith&Sinclair • The Russell Howard Hour • Farr Festival • Virgo Festival • Secret Garden Festival • Boomtown Fair • Darling&Edge • Gingerline • Bearden Kitten
[Clients : Broadcast]
Universal Music • Redlight Management • Partisan Records • High Focus Records • Secret Cinema • Saatchi&Saatchi • Barcadi • Tequila Patron • Sainsburys • Facebook X Grazia • Troxy London • Greenpeace AAA • Hello Fresh X Disney • Melissa Galeria • Tentacles Tv • McCann London • HSBC • Discovery House • Evan Cycle • Nyx Professional Makeup • B&Q • Dungeon’s&Dragons • Match&Fuse Festival • Grenson Shoes • Sailor Jerry • Panasonic • Post Office • Arcelormittal • Samsung • Vodafone • Lloyds Banking Group
More work by Stella
Arcades – Troyka
Babyshark
Bacardi Clover Club
Bring It On
Greenpeace
Greenpeace AAA Festival
Hello Fresh – Lightyear
Idles
Match&Fuse Festival 2014 – Intro sequence
Old El Paso
Patron Tequila Silver
Secret Garden Party Festival
Shipwreck
The Leisure Center
The Russell Howard Hour
The Vaccines – Headphones Baby
UEFA Champions League – Heineken
YEBO
Arcades – Troyka
For this, I worked on the animation using Photoshop/AfterEffects.
Babyshark
Visual content created for the controversial opening performance for X Factor final
There was also a large LED cube stage acting as an aquarium, with video content of a shark swimming seamlessly inside.
The concept was to build chaos and confusion.
Bacardi Clover Club
Bring It On
Greenpeace
Creative Director, Illustrator, Animator, Motion Graphics Designer
Visual content created for the ’Soya Factory’ stage, depicting mass deforestation at the hand of the meat industry. The stage was built as a factory with the visuals being the internal machinery.
Greenpeace AAA Festival
Hello Fresh – Lightyear
Idles
Assistant Creative Director, Animator
Official ‘Never Fight A Man With A Perm’ Music Video (Partisan Records)
Animation and associate director in collaboration with illustrator Russell Taysom & director Al Brown (Fluffer Records).
Match&Fuse Festival 2014 – Intro sequence
Intro sequence for Match&Fuse Festival 2014 (in collaboration with Screensaver.tv) at RichMix, London
+ Art Direction by Stella Wan / Jordan Copeland (Editor / Motion Graphics)
+ Adobe Creative Suite CS6 (After Effects / Premier / Photoshop)
Old El Paso
Patron Tequila Silver
Secret Garden Party Festival
Animated visuals created for live 3D projection mapping onto a 15 metre water screen at the Saturday Spectacle during the festival
+ Stella Wan (Animation)
+ In collaboration with Cursor (3D Projection Mapping)
+ Adobe Creative Suite CS6 (After Effects / Photoshop)
Shipwreck
Almeida Theatre
Video content created for projection in Anne Washburn’s sinister, comedy play about the 45th President of the United States.
The Leisure Center
Visual content created for the The Leisure Centre productions, BoomTown Fair 2014
+ All Art Direction by Stella Wan (Editor / Motion Graphics)
+ Adobe Creative Suite CS6 (After Effects / Premier / Photoshop)
The Russell Howard Hour
Video content created for 3 synchronized, large LED screens display.
Stella further developed the design and animation of Series 1 that was created at LH Studios
The Vaccines – Headphones Baby
UEFA Champions League – Heineken
YEBO
Promotional visuals for club night YEBO, Glasgow
+ Art Direction by Stella Wan (Director / Film / Editor / Illustration / Animation)
+ Adobe Creative Suite CS6 (After Effects / Premier / Photoshop)
+ Shot with Nikon D3100 SLR