Cow (2022)
Cow (2022) is an animation senior capstone film directed by Wendy Kong, and I was a core team member from pre- to post-production. It is a fantasy romance inspired by puppy love, the landscapes of rural Hong Kong, and the movies and music that we loved as kids.
My credits on the film include character and FX animation lead, layout artist, and compositor. I was also responsible for character design of the titular cow, who appears in both a realistic and abstracted fantastical form.
Cow designs
Select rough character animation
2DFX animation
For this shot that we nicknamed the “Rainbow Road”, I began with a thumbnail storyboard for how the FX would develop, then I rough animated the character and FX, keeping notations of the different layers of FX. After getting the shot back from the cleanup team, I animated the shadow effects in Harmony, We then took the shot into After Effects for compositing. I painted different rainbow textures based on art from the visdev team to carefully mask over each color-coded ribbon.
Final film stills
