Sea of Ink Pellicula Brevis Animata by Chenxin Yang

Sea of Ink Pellicula Brevis Animata by Chenxin Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Pellicula Competition Category.

ArgentumPellicula· 2023

Sea of Ink Pellicula Brevis Animata

by Chenxin Yang

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Pellicula Category

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The Design

About Sea of Ink Pellicula Brevis Animata

Mare Atramenti est pellicula brevis animata de artifice qui impedimento creativo laborat et sub mare iter facit. Pellicula demonstrat quomodo artifex obstacula in processu creativo perrumpat. Species visualis atramenti aquarelli manu delineati tribus dimensionibus fabulae aspectum singularem praebet. Opus animationem planam (2D), animationem solidam (3D), imagines vivas captatas, illustrationes manu delineatas et graphica mobilia coniungit. Scaenae vivae camera DSLR captae sunt. Mare Atramenti duo minuta et viginti septem secunda durat.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Sea of Ink Pellicula Brevis Animata victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Sea of Ink Pellicula Brevis Animata opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Sea of Ink Pellicula Brevis Animata creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

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