The Enchanted Forest
Immersive Animation & Projection (2023–2025)
2026 - Currently in production
The Enchanted Forest is one of Scotland’s most celebrated outdoor sound and light experiences, transforming Faskally Wood in Pitlochry into an immersive night-time journey through projection, light and music.
Since 2023, driven by a passion for visual storytelling, we have been commissioned to create immersive animated worlds and projection experiences that transform key moments along the trail. Across three editions of the event, our work has helped shape some of the most memorable visual sequences of the experience - from water-screen storytelling on Loch Dunmore to large-scale landscape projection.
Project Overview
Years
2023 – 2026
Our Role
Animation
Projection design
Character animation
Landscape projection
Immersive visual storytelling
Technologies
Water-screen projection
Landscape projection mapping
LED installations
Large-scale environmental projection
The Challenge
Designing stories within a living landscape
The Enchanted Forest trail winds through protected woodland, presenting a unique creative challenge: installations must enhance the natural environment rather than compete with it.
As part of a wider creative and production team, we act as immersive animation specialists, crafting visual content that works in harmony with lighting, sound and the surrounding landscape.
Each year introduces a new narrative theme and visual direction, requiring fresh approaches to animation, projection design and storytelling that respond to the scale, texture and atmosphere of the forest.
2023 - From the Deep
From the Deep transformed the forest into a glowing underwater world, where bioluminescent creatures, shifting ocean landscapes and immersive soundscapes followed Solus on a journey through the mysterious depths of the sea.
Our contribution
We animated multiple installations across the trail:
Trail Introduction
A series of LED screens embedded within the woodland introduced Solus, the central character, who guided audiences through the story.
Loch Dunmore Showcase
Halfway along the trail, visitors gather at Loch Dunmore for the large-scale audio-visual flagship show. We created a six-minute animated sequence projected onto a water screen rising from the loch, synchronised with lighting design and an original musical score.
Final Installation
For the final installation, we filmed dancer Jo Piere, transforming her performance into Biera, the winter spirit appearing at the end of the story.
The sequence blended choreography, animation to close the narrative journey through the forest.
2024 - Symphony of Nature
Exploring the harmony and beauty of nature.
Creating a sensory experience inspired by seasonal patterns and organic motion, where light, sound and animation flowed in harmony with the rhythms of the natural world.
Our contribution
We once again produced the animated visuals for the Loch Dunmore water-screen showcase, creating a new sequence designed to respond to the musical composition and surrounding lighting design.
The animation used flowing, organic motion and evolving patterns inspired by natural rhythms, transforming the loch into a living visual performance
2025 -Luminara
Exploring the connection between nature and technology.
The 2025 edition introduced new interactive elements and immersive installations exploring how digital technology and natural landscapes can coexist.
Our contribution
Our role expanded across two major installations.
Loch Showcase
We returned to create the animated content for the loch water-screen projection, continuing the evolving visual storytelling of the event.
Living Tapestry
We also created Living Tapestry, a large-scale landscape projection mapped onto the cliff face surrounding the loch.
The projection transformed the rock surface into a living, animated ecosystem, with light appearing to grow across the landscape and respond to the surrounding environment.
A growing creative partnership
Over three consecutive years, our work has helped shape some of the defining visual moments of the Enchanted Forest experience.
As the event continues to evolve, each year brings new stories, new challenges, and new opportunities to expand the creative possibilities of the forest.
Credits
Event Producers
Wavemakers Ltd
Creative Director
Karen Craig
Lighting Designer
Grand Anderson
Composers
Jon Beales & RJ McConnell
Animators
Bright Side Studios
Cristina Spiteri & Susanna Murphy
