Leo Wu

Illustraition About Handywork

SHOWREEL

ANIMATION

For this short, the audio was taken first, from an interview I conducted about London city, no extra audio was added during compositing. Background done on Procreate, and animation done on
ToonBoom Harmony.

I wanted to experiment with non digital medium to animate, so ink and cutout animation was employed. This was made during my second year living in London, being in an unfamiliar city I explored my relationship growing up and living in metropolitan environments.

I watched a lot of Spongebob over the summer so I paid homage to the fella and make a mockumentary with ocean denizens. I used what I had in hand at the time to make the cutout backgrounds with some animation, and incorporated 2D with Procreate Dreams for the character animation.

This group project had a rough start with disagreements over the film’s medium, but we settled on a mix of 2D with Stopmotion set design. A fun piece of trivia I learn was that it’ll take about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for earth to plunge into darkness if the sun disapeared suddenly, although nothing will freeze instantly, we preferred the more apocalyptic take on this scenario. In the end, we felt the lamp going off for the sun was quite cheap, and it was hard to make visuals dynamic during the frozen part for obvious reasons.

For this group project we went for 2D digital, this was quite the tough project as time was not on our side, our management of it less so, so we made some adjustments for the original plan. We decided the best course of action instead of colouring in, was to give it manga styled texturing, so that cut some time for us but also made it look less lazy. I participated in the character, background design, animatic and compositing. I did the rotoscoping for the intro. There are definitely rooms for improvement with sound designs so that is a lesson learnt.

We were asked to basically throw a curveball of creativity at the client over 15 seconds, so we showcased the duality of atheleticism with breakdancing being the dexterous sport and weight liftinging being the strength based, over some jazz done by a music masters student we collaborated with. I was involved in the concept, character design and compositing. Animated the second half of the Ident first on 2D, then used acrylic paint and posca pen tracing over the projection.