Having lived in Edinburgh for six years, Romanian-born director/designer Andrei Staruiala set out to capture the wit and peculiar charm of Scottish sayings in a series of 31 animations released as an animated advent calendar during December 2016.

Andrei Staruiala: “Scottish Sayings is a personal side project, my way of absorbing a small part of the culture and a method of self-learning character animation.”

Director/animator: Andrei Staruiala
Sound design: Matt Campbell
Voice over: Margaret Heeps
Voice over recording: Canongate Studios