Storyboard 1: The Soya Bear Buds (2022, revised 2024)
Prompt: silent short. Story and characters by me.
An assignment for a UCLA Film & Television storyboarding class. This animatic has a nostalgic and heartwarming mood to convey happy memories of friendship. Since these my characters are unknown to the public, this short aims to show each character's unique personality. These characters are inspired by my favorite food, since food is one of the easiest ways I connect to loved ones, hence the story features these buds bonding over food.
Original silent storyboard (2022) Page 1
Original silent storyboard (2022) Page 2
Original silent storyboard (2022) Page 3
Original silent storyboard (2022) Page 4
Original silent storyboard (2022) Page 5
Storyboard 2: A Farewell to a Friend (2022)
Characters, setting, music from: The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS)
Inspired by: Li Bai's poem A Farewell to a Friend (translated by Witter Byner)
Inspired by: Li Bai's poem A Farewell to a Friend (translated by Witter Byner)
Prompt: adapt an existing piece of work.
An assignment for a UCLA Film & Television storyboarding class. Lan Wangji (white) and Wei Wuxian (black) are the main characters of MDZS, childhood acquaintances with a tragic past. The original storyboard did not have any dialogue, as I thought that the longing and the bittersweet parting of intertwined souls was already sufficiently expressed in the illustrations. But I added lines of the poem in the animatic to demonstrate just how uncannily similar the relationship described in the poem encapsulates the canon story of WangXian.
Storyboard 3: Aggiemation Eggheads animated logo (2022)
Storyboard, character concepts, rough animation drawn by me.
I collaborated with my fellow founding members of the newly established UC Davis animation club, Aggiemation Eggheads, to conceptualize an animation for our club's static logo, which would precede all our future animation projects. I gave our egg mascot a personality "bursting" with fun through this rough animation.
Aggiemation Eggheads logo intro storyboard
Aggiemation Eggheads logo intro rough animation
