At the start of the project I decided to do a little bit of research into Thomas Hardy himself to get an understanding of what he was like and what he did. I found this useful because the aim with this project was to make him become relevant again and to get younger audiences to engage with him more. I felt that I didn’t need to do too much research on Hardy himself seeing as the animation was going to be based more off of his novel ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, so just finding out a few facts about him was enough to form the basis of the project.