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Wastopia

This is my final year animation project while studying in Royal College of Art (2020).

 

Key words: Over-consumerism, Environment pollution, Waste disposal

Film Synopsis

 


'Wastopia' is a short animated film exploring the issues surrounding global attitudes to waste disposal and the environmental pollution that inevitably follows.

 

The film indicates a visual journey based on an otherworldly place inhabited by strange creatures and the products of what humans discard.  

 

 

Director: Qianhui Yu

Composer: Andrew McDonnell

Sound designer/mixer: Henry Sims

🌟 London International Animation Festival + Screentalk 2023

🌟 It's Nice That

🌟 BFI Future Film Festival   Best International Film nominee 2021

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🌟 Nowness Asia

🌟 ​​Girls In Film

🌟 Adobe Creative Cloud

British Short Film Festival 2021, Berlin

Collater.al

Cinanima International Animated Film Festival 2020

🌟 NOWNESS Youtube Channel

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🥥  I-D AND ARTSTHREAD GLOBAL DESIGN GRADUATE SHOW 2020 Short List

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2020跨媒体艺术节|国际青年影像作品展映   The 6th Intermedia Art FestivalInternational Youth Video Art Exhibition, China

花鸟岛国际动画艺术节, China

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'What if wasted food and garbages have feelings? Think before you throw them away'


I created this 'Wastopia' world, as an otherworldly place inhabited by those creatures transformed by plastic materials, extinct animal skeleton, garbages and wasted food, developing their own ecosystem and hierarchy in this narrative free exploration of human waste. The aim of this film is not only to raise my own awareness of environment pollution, also others. The issues of waste disposal and food waste are just one of the ways mankind is causing harm and leaving the earth ruined. However, the devastating result of the pollution is something most people don't see everyday, yet it happening in the real time.

I keep expanding this project into variety expressions, not only animated film, I also made comics, Instagram filters, CD covers, prints along with the characters and story in the film.

 

 

Instagram filter

Wastopia Animal1: https://www.instagram.com/ar/222659502319162/

Filter 2: https://www.instagram.com/ar/297190604854866/

 

'Wastopia' Short Teaser 

An imagined album cover for my project, music design come from Andrew McDonnell

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Poster Design

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Design behind the film

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Resting-food.gif
Bird-Machine-and-Jelly.gif

 Gifs from film

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Comic 1

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Bird skeleton.jpg
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Character Design

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4The glass pieces in the 'Wastopia' .jpg

Film Stills

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My character trying my Instagram filter

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