'Sea of Ink' by Chenxin Yang: Innovation in Animation

Sea of Ink

Animation for Chenxin Yang

Sea of Ink is an animated short, which is about a story that an artist is struggling with the creative block about the art journey under the sea. This animation portrayed an artist’s creative dilemma and demonstrated a process of breaking through via self discovery. The short artistically discussed emotional exploration during an artwork creation phase. The animation combined a variety of techniques, such as 2D, 3D and live-action photo shooting. The director of the film leveraged the 3D hand-drawn watercolor ink as the artistic style of the film.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Image Credits

Image 1: Creator Chenxin Yang Image 2: Creator Chenxin Yang Image 3: Creator Chenxin Yang Image 4: Creator Chenxin Yang

Project Overview

Sea of Ink Animation has been a Silver winner in the Movie, Video and Animation Design award category in the year 2022 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

Silver Recognition

Chenxin Yang was recognized with the coveted Silver A' Design Award in 2023, a testament to excellence of their work Sea of Ink Animation.

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Sea of Ink: A Captivating 3D Hand-Drawn Watercolor Animation

An Award-Winning Animated Short Film by Chenxin Yang

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