Sea of Ink Animation by Chenxin Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Movie, Video and Animation Design Competition Category.

SilverMovie· 2023

Sea of Ink Animation

by Chenxin Yang

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Movie Category

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The Design

About Sea of Ink Animation

Sea of Ink is an animated short film about an artist who struggles with a creative block and travels under the sea. The film shows how the artist breaks through barriers during the creative process. A visual aesthetic of three-dimensional hand-drawn watercolor ink gives the story a distinct look. The work combines 2D animation, 3D animation, live-action footage, hand-drawn illustrations and motion graphics. The live-action scenes were filmed with a DSLR camera. Sea of Ink runs for two minutes and twenty-seven seconds.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Sea of Ink Animation is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Sea of Ink Animation is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Sea of Ink Animation is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Color Temperature: CoolSymmetry: VerticalBackground: Top and Bottom

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We create award-winning animations combining hand-drawn watercolor ink aesthetics with 3D techniques. Our unique geometric character designs and motion graphics bring stories to life for brands, films, and creative projects. International festival recognition ensures your vision receives world-class treatment.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is an animated short film about an artist struggling with his creative block and his journey under the sea. This animation portrays how the artist breaks through the barriers during the creation process. The animation has an unique visual aesthetic of the 3D hand-drawn watercolor ink style.
Dimensions & Packaging: 1 Video
Width 1920 pixels, Height 1080 pixels
2 minutes and 27 seconds
Tags: Motion design, Animation, Design, Motion Graphics
Production Technology: The techniques used in this work are 2D animation, 3D animation, videography, hand-drawn illustrations and motion graphics. The live-action part was filmed by DSLR camera.
Design Challenge: One of the challenge was to make the coherent visual between the live-action part and Chenxin's 3D hand-drawn watercolor ink style in the animation. Chenxin spent a lot effort and tried many versions to achieve the best result.
Research: Chenxin has been creating hand-drawn textured style animations for years and developed her own creative aesthetics. Chenxin researched deeply into animation techniques including ink fluid and particle rendering to combine 2D, 3D and videography in the animation. The work expresses ink stroke in a new way of presentation with self-finding inspiration.
Inspiration: This animation is inspired by the artist's creative exploration path. The psychological struggle and subconscious artistic choices of the artist's creative process provided the main inspiration for this animation. The animation is visually influenced by traditional ink and watercolor paintings.
Project Duration: The project took 2 years to ideate, research, design, animate and complete in New York.
Operation Flow: This work is a combination of animated visuals and audio. This animated short film can be played on the screen.
Team Members: Director: Chenxin Yang
Designer: Chenxin Yang
Animator: Chenxin Yang
Image Credits: Image 1: Creator Chenxin Yang
Image 2: Creator Chenxin Yang
Image 3: Creator Chenxin Yang
Image 4: Creator Chenxin Yang