Animation & Illustration

Jemima Bueya-Sambu

A shelf with toys and a doll. Text reads "A Doll's Fate" in cursive.

Opening image to The Doll

I am a 3D and 2D background artist and animator who strives to entertain through my passion of design and animation. I love children and stress the importance for their happiness and development so creating mediums that can help and improve their day to day lives the same way animated TV shows, films and even adverts did for me growing up would bring me so much joy.

I intend for my design skills to be used to produce an environment that suits a character and is seen as a safe space that becomes recognizable even after my intended audiences grows older.


For my Final Major Project, I created a lighthearted film about a doll wanting to escape her home in the toy shop to explore the outside world into the city. Her only obstacle? A single piece of string who wants her right back on the shelf where she ‘belongs’ with every other toy in the shop.  Thankfully she meets a friend on the way who helps her on her adventure.

A playroom with dark shelves filled with toys and books, colorful circular rugs on the floor, and a stack of large teddy bears in the center.
A woman with purple hair stands behind blue jail bars in a dark room, wearing a dark outfit and brown boots.
Colorful, abstract cityscape with various geometric buildings in pink, yellow, and teal against a clear blue sky.
Inside the toy shop The doll trapped inside the toy shelf City street