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Animation Filmmaking >>




Walleye, zombie animation analysis (2021)
2D hand drawn and simple rig: action analysis:

Our Lives in the Toxic Blume, animation/moving image sequence (2023)

2D hand drawn and rigged animation, with camera pans.

First segment, sepia sequences: illustrated first on photoshop and then composited and rigged on After Effects

Second segment, muted colour sequences: design, camera pan, rigged and composited with Toonboom Harmony Premium. Light compositing on Adobe After effects.




Dorothy: animated logo, rigging, animation with Toonboom Harmony. Composited with Premiere Pro. 






Client Animation Demo Reel




Mom's Garden - 妈妈的菜园 (independent)


Select screenings:
Addis Video Art Festival (Ethiopia, 2022). WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, 2022).
Archived version screened at the Animation Festival of Halifax (2021).
Installation screening at the University of Regina, Media Art and Performance lab (2019).

Mom's Garden - 妈妈的菜园 : An ode to paper animation; Cyril archives their mother-tongue as they draws from the roots of their Mother’s Garden, planted in Regina, Saskatchewan, with seeds carried over from Yangchun, Canton China.


Project link: https://cyberspacevoid.xyz/moms-garden-animation-installation

Home of Diaspora: CBC Short Doc


RAW: Short Doc for CBC Creators Network
Roles: Animator, Co-Director

Link to video: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/raw-spoken-word-nova-scotia-1.5473945?utm_campaign=likeshopme&utm_medium=instagram&utm_source=dash%20hudson&utm_content=www.instagram.com/p/B8_Y1zPHOVL/
Article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/community/raw-talent-how-this-spoken-word-video-came-to-be-1.5479690
RAW, screened at:
Animation Festival of Halifax (2021)
Lunenburg Doc Fest (2020)

Animation Installation:

: Animation Projection for Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre using archive materials from the organization's past 40 years as an Artist-Run Centre in Regina SK, Treaty Four Territory. This was projected for their 40th-anniversary party (SAT 19 2022, 8pm-late).
Photos provided  Yuji Lee and Neutral Ground ARC. 


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