Rohan McDonald

Director, Animator, Illustrator

Rooms is a print and film project that explores the connections between mental and physical spaces through conversation, illustration, design, and animation.

Made In collaboration with shelfshelf, a publishing imprint and collaborative graphic design practice operated by Lucas Reif and Austin White in Chicago, IL

Rooms 

I’ve been fortunate to collaborate on some fantastic projects with great clients, collaborative agencies, fellow directors, animators, and friends. 

Reel 2023

Another recent collaboration with the Column Five team! Together we created animations for an anonymous client diving into workplace culture and environment. I really enjoyed storyboarding, designing, and animating in this characterful and textured style.

Culture and Work

Another fun project with the Column Five agency video team for Bill.com and Divvy.

Bill + Divvy

In theory, individuals should have the same rights online as they do in the physical world. But in practice, this is uncharted legal territory. Perhaps the most contentious area is free-speech law.

“Your First Amendment rights exist in a digital space, just as much as they exist in the real world,” says Lata Nott, the executive director of the First Amendment Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, in a new animated video. Nott goes on to explain how a group of Twitter users who were blocked by President Donald Trump’s official Twitter account took this idea to the courts—and won.

This video is part of The Speech Wars, a project of The Atlantic, and is supported by the Charles Koch Foundation, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and the Fetzer Institute.

Rohan McDonald

Director, Animator, Illustrator

Reel 2023

Rooms

Culture and Work

Bill + Divvy

The Online Speech Wars