Starry: 2D Animation

Creator

Mok, Hiu Ching 莫曉晴 -- Chan, Sze Ming 陳思明 -- Miyuki, Francisco F. 范美雪 -- Choi, Hoi Ching 蔡愷晴

Title

Alternative Title

What is your desire? 你憧憬着什麼？

Subject

Digital media -- Design -- Exhibitions

College graduates

Date Created

2021-06-17

Relation

PolyU Design Show 2021: Profile Cards

Format

Photographs

Identifier

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Is Part Of

BA (Hons) in Digital Media

Description

I mainly make 2D animation with the style biased towards Japanese. The themes I have done in the past are love, affection and original intention. I am interested in dubbing and have some experience so I always used it in my work, such as radio dramas and animations. The story direction and content of this work were discussed by the whole group. Everyone is responsible for different parts, such as in between, character design, background. Among these, the more profound aspect for me is sound design, since it (except BGM) was all supervised by me, including dubbing. We spent a lot of time in different stages like dialogue design, preparation, and casting audition, we tried our best to produce each part. Our animation "Starry" uses cyberpunk and vapor wave that I have never encountered before. We present a unique worldview, and lead people to think about their own "meaning".

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It is a story about “finding ourselves”. Which take place in a town where was lack of luminosity. People would like to pursue light and they believed that a light from the high way referred to hope and worship. Aster was a quiet and introverted girl but she hoped to obtain others appreciation even her wooden handmade fans page followers hadn’t increase. One day, she saw a meteor falling from the sky and got peoples’ attention and hope. Due to getting the value like the meteor, she started to searching for it. There are many metaphors in our story. Meteor means “idol”, which can obtain peoples’ attention and appreciate. When Aster solve many difficulties in her adventure, her persistence makes her grow up and get attention. I am the producer, animator, background designer and responsible for shadow. For the background, I mainly use blue, green and purple color tone to match our cyberpunk style. It makes me learn a new art style, and create neon lights in Photoshop.

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What is your desire? Nowadays, youngsters try finding self esteem and fighting for their dreams in different ways such as surfing and posting on social media. However, reality and their self values often become obstacles. Our project 'Starry' is a 2D animation inspired by our self experiences and the dream chasers, led and made by a group of four. My position mainly focused on directing and animating. The story features an introverted girl named Aster who lives in a town without daylights and heavily relies on social media. Once she saw a mysterious meteor leading her to a journey of finding the meaning of her life. We hope to inspire the audience to a new vision, rediscovering self-esteem and encourage not to hesitate chasing their dreams through our story.

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Do you have a dream? No matter how the time changes, there are people who wants to pursue their dreams. However, they always feel that they can’t achieve it. But is it true? My graduation work is an animation called "Starry". It is a story about chasing dreams and we applied cyberpunk, vapor wave as the art style of this animation. Our main character, Aster search for the meteor in this unique world. The story takes place in a world where is no daylight. Aster is an introvert girl. She uploaded her wood crafts to the internet and eager to be noticed, but it backfired. At the same time, she was shocked by the meteor shining through the town and decided to find the meteor herself. In this animation, my positions are art director and animator. I also participated in character design, voice acting, editing and etc. The production process of this animation is a valuable experience for me. I hope I will have more opportunities to participate in other animation productions in the future.

Collection

PolyU Design Show 2021