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ABOUT ME

Chenrui Lan

2D Animator

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Born in Sichuan, China 10 / on 20 / 1999. I like birds & sky, cool machinery, and fantasies.

 

Mainly engaged in traditional animation, illustration, and environmental design; postproduction, storyboarding and the character design are followed.

 

My first connection with animation began when I was nine years old. At that time, the art teacher showed us a flipbook animation. Since then, there has been my flipbook animation in the corner of every page of every thick textbook. Before high school, I accumulate my skill little bit by bit making flipbooks and stop motion animations in my spare time.

Story

I am committed to use to create content between fantasy and realism. I was not a very outgoing person since childhood, but it gave me more opportunities to stay alone and observe every detail from life and nature, I observe the texture of the ground of the playground and keep while observe the little jumping spider caught in the corner of the room. Hayao Miyazaki's works have given me a lot of inspiration, which also makes the sky and aircraft one of my favorite elements. The interaction between man and machine in Hayao Miyazaki's works gives people a sense of being down-to-earth. You can see the corresponding functions of specific operations, which increases the firmness of the story and makes it more believable. For me, to do this requires a calm state of mind. At the same time, if I want to draw an aircraft, I will understand its internal structure and think about its rationality. This calm state of mind makes the mood of my works generally look quiet. But that doesn't mean I'm stuck with one kind of mood. Influenced by Hiroyuki Imaishi's works, I also realized how ultra-high intense and expressive visuals are loved by people. I think this seems to better reflect the uniqueness of animation compared to static illustrations and live action films.

 

I'm very partial about visuals in an animated story since that time, because as a visual based narrative, the good look of that piece is the beauty of itself when people first . When I was a child, I almost never read a pure text paper book other than the course requirements and hardly listened to the radio. At that time, most of my peers had a novel they couldn't put down, I still prefer anything with a good-looking picture, because I was only obsessed with visual (or including audio) information. So, if creating a story is tricky for me, I'll propose - at least give it a good look.

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