The film Heart Story is a 2D animated film produced as a final year project under Nanyang Technological University (NTU), School of Art, Design and Media (ADM).
This film tells a series of stories, discuss some problems and conflicts that might occur in real-life situations, describe different characters’ true feeling about it by using heart character as the media to express themselves.
The main character “heart” shows up in three stories. Three stories happening in office buildings, restaurant and cinema. The behaviors of the heart hint the thoughts and conflicts of human characters.
Specialisation: Digital Animation
Keywords: 2D Digital Animation
This film is about a young girl who slowly loses her ‘sight’, and eventually finds a new way of ‘seeing’ her world again. The story is unraveled through the main character transitioning from the real world to the world of darkness, and eventually into the world of colours where she begins seeing things in her new found perspective.
In the earlier concepts, I wanted to explore the idea of “blindness” and how a person who was born blind can imagine their world in colours. As I developed the project further over time, I decided to keep the idea of loss and learning to accept the loss in order to gain new perspective.
Working on this film has cost me my blood, sweat and tears, quite literally. So, I do hope you’ll enjoy it when it’s done!
Mycotheism– the rise of a new fungi religion where the omnipresent fungi gods are respore-nsible for prolonging life, or sending us to our deaths. This religion is an amalgamation of artistic, scientific and spiritual elements. It intertwines fact with fantasy, enticing the believer into a world of wonder where things are better than the reality we live in – or are they? Through the use of visual metaphors, allegories, puns, illustrations and visual mapping, this project imparts the sacred laws and truths of Mycotheism and prophesying the fate of humanity.
