Francesco Roych is an Italian visual artist and animator living and working in the UK.

His practice brings together printmaking, illustration, handmade 2D puppetry and animation. Working across woodcut, watercolour and hand-crafted paper puppets, he develops images and characters that move between traditional techniques and digital production.

Alongside his independent artistic practice, Francesco works as a Studio Assistant Animator for the company 1927 Studios, contributing across different stages of the visual production process, including puppet construction, illustrated asset creation, background and environment building, stop-frame animation and compositing using Dragonframe, Photoshop and After Effects.

His work is inspired by the occult, mystery, surreal narratives and themes of social justice. Whether through print, stop-frame animation or frame-by-frame animation, he is interested in creating tactile, handcrafted worlds and using images to tell stories that sit between illustration and moving image.

Francesco graduated in Illustration from Middlesex University with First Class Honours.