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Animation (MA)

Yiqi Liu

Yiqi Liu is an animator and illustrator from China. She graduated from Anhui University majoring in Visual Communication.

During her undergraduate studies, she enjoyed drawing illustrations and making posters.

Her popular science picture book "Zhuang Zhou's Dream of a Butterfly" tells the process of a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon and becoming a butterfly, and won the first prize in the Anhui Provincial Original Animation Competition

Her illustration "Oriental Stylist" participated in the Chinese College Student Advertising Art Competition and won the third prize in the province

The animated advertisement "The First Gift" she participated in won the Excellence Award at the China College Student Advertising Art Festival

After graduating, Yiqi went to the Royal College of Art to study animation. She loves animation very much and hopes to bring her graphic design experience from undergraduate study to animation learning.

While studying animation at rca, she also started experimenting with combining new techniques and materials. Yiqi is currently making an animation on the theme of procrastination. It tells the story of people in the office struggling with deadlines and the impact of emotions on space.

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Procrastination is a relatively common mental illness. It suffers from the interplay of perfectionism and obsessive-compulsive disorder. I wanted to explore how procrastinators behave in work settings. Equally important, I also want to Explore the emotional relationship between people and space, and express this connection with procrastination groups.

In the design of the scene, I used "mise en abyme", which is a formal technique of placing a copy of an image within itself, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence.

The use of these complex compositions raises questions about reality and illusion, and creates uncertain relationships between characters.

In the design, I added recurring pictures and plots through the copied items, hoping to guide people to start thinking about the relationship between their procrastination and the environment, and promote the development of the plot.

In the end, my purpose of making this theme is to bring people into the first-person subjective experience of various external manifestations of procrastination. It is not to criticize procrastination, but to hope that people will think about the advantages and disadvantages of procrastination. People can immerse themselves in the process of procrastination caused by this anxiety.

 
Don't Go Gentle Into That Toilet

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