“Avatara” by Cheng

  • ©Kam-Li Cheng

Conference:


SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Track:


    07

Title:


    Avatara

Length:


    2:58

Director(s):


Description:


    This short film was originally inspired by the creator’s experience of the bonds that people and plants share, and the residual energy left between a tree and its planter. The film encourages people to engage with nature more freely and more frequently, and it hopes to promote protection of the world’s environment.“Avatara” was produced with a program that is not traditionally used to produce animations of this complexity and scale. Within the animation, there are 1,684 non-repeating frames that were individually painted by hand using a graphics tablet. Unlike most MA animation projects in the UK,this film was produced by only one student instead of a team, and it was created in a much shorter amount of time than most other MA projects.

Additional Contributors:


    Story: Kam-Li Cheng
    Character Design/Storyboard/Background: Kam-Li Cheng
    Art Director: Kam-Li Cheng
    Music Director: Ethan Lewis Maltby
    Composer: Ethan Lewis Maltby
    Animator: Kam-Li Cheng
    Editor: Kam-Li Cheng
    Research & Development: Kam-Li Cheng
    Producer: University of Sunderland
    Acknowledgement: Alison Snowden (Advisor)