# Project Description The Voluntary Donation Lingqiao He Summary Final work College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design Graduation year 2025 When mainstream narratives in art are saturated with hymns to saviours, habitually portraying victims as passive objects awaiting rescue, a piercing question arises: what are these victims thinking? What can they do? The animation Voluntary Donation boldly turns its lens onto the dark organ trafficking industry. Centred on the victims' internal perspectives, it recounts the harrowing escape of two girls, Susie and Joe, from a suffocating organ harvesting den. Rejecting the traditional victim narrative's pathos and powerlessness, the film instead employs an expressive, exaggerated storytelling style favoured by anime audiences. Whether depicting the characters' highly charged emotional outbursts or deliberately amplifying the oppressive absurdity in its scene design (through grotesque spaces and symbolic colour palettes), these elements are never mere visual spectacle. These techniques precisely magnify the victims' psychological states and will to survive under extreme terror, enabling the audience to deeply empathise with their fear and rage. Crucially, through this highly stylised yet visceral expression, Voluntary Donation powerfully illuminates the astonishing agency victims can unleash in desperate circumstances. The suffocating plot twist at its conclusion carries far more weight than a simple dramatic turn. It delivers a precise strike upon, and holds up a stark mirror to, the deep-seated yearning for justice within the victims (Susie, Joe) and the public. The twist instantly shatters any lingering illusions of a reprieve, forcing both characters and audience to confront a chilling reality: in this distorted world saturated with black-market interests, an individual's (even a victim's) desperate pursuit of justice, and society's collective cry for fairness, often collide with an invisible wall built from power, money, or systemic silence. Final work The Voluntary Donation Share this project When mainstream narratives in art are saturated with hymns to saviours, habitually portraying victims as passive objects awaiting rescue, a piercing question arises: what are these victims thinking? What can they do?The animation Voluntary Donation boldly turns its lens... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Realities Social Justice Animatic 2DAnimation