Steph Hope is an award-winning animator and illustrator from the most normal town in England. She was named one of the Young Guns 17 by the One Club For Creativity and won the Gold Award for Illustration at Visuelt 2019. Her debut short ‘Not Drifting Off’ was commissioned by FX Networks and featured in the programmes at Annecy, Pictoplasma, Interfilm, Fredrikstad Animation Festival and Lago Film Fest. It won Best Nordic Animation at Minimalen Short Film Festival and the Gold Award for Moving Image at Visuelt 2023. She is part of the founding team at FUS! Animation, the analogue animation branch of production company FUS! in Oslo.