Hard Yakka, A Parallax Cellebrating Australian Women in Agriculture
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Published 2024-03-04
For decades now women have had to fight to be acknowledged as farmers, their work being rendered invisible and dismissed as just ‘domestic’. In fact, prior to 1994 women weren't legally recognised as farmers in Australia. Throughout History women have worked painstakingly hard to build and sustain their farms as well as gain recognition, hence the title Hard yakka. Farming is and was a very physically demanding lifestyle and there is still ongoing activism led by rural women to battle sexist ideals that lie in the agricultural industry.
Notes:
-I loved working on this so much, very relaxing. I think I got a bit impatient near the end but it was definitely worth it :)
-Been sick at home for the past week and all up this has taken ages to make. The horse was pretty tough but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
-Feel free to provide me with any input or feedback and let me know what scene you think I should do next :)
Credits:
-All art is mine, and I made everything using vector in scratch. I've spent ages working on it and I'm pretty proud of it so please don't use any without credit (I would love it if you asked for permission as well).
-thanks to one of my irl friends for letting me come over and spend the the day with her horse who I used as a reference.
-Mouse trail and thumbnail code mine but feel free to use either with credit :)
-Thanks to @ThePhantomAnimator (The STEAMist on yt) for the amazing yt tutorial which I followed to make the majority of the main parallax code
-Thanks to @embark- and @R2D2Anna for most of the dust particle code
-Music: 'Drops of Jupiter' by Train, took me forever to pick a song but I landed on this one :)