Meet the Artist

Huaning

Wang

“Monster is an animation that aims at revealing the pressure of modern fast-paced society and the workplace, as well as the influence of long-term psychological stress on health. This narrative story mainly follows a day in the life of the main character, who is an ordinary office worker, and encounters many difficult and exhausting situations during work, such as being bullied by colleagues, working from morning till night, and still having to work overtime. In the middle of the plot, we inserted the protagonist's connection with The Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the shadow of his childhood as a secondary line and theme. The images and the designs of monsters are based on the beasts in The Classic of Mountains and Seas, which embodies the fantastic and grotesque imagination of our ancestors. We chose to conduct research on this Chinese classic text and involve these in our animation of these monster elements owing to our common interest in Chinese culture and legends. The animation is inspired by the serious social situation of high involution and “Lie-down culture” within the modern Chinese social atmosphere. Through the animation, we want to appeal to the public to draw attention to the stress and diseases caused by stressful environments in our modern lives.This work is a team-cooperated animation by Huaning Wang; Cindy Zhang and Arthur Zhang.

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Huaning Wang(b.1999, ShanXi, China), currently a 4th-year animation student from OCAD, Toronto, Canada, is graduating in June 2022 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Huaning is a Chinese-based artist currently studying in Toronto. As a new animator, she carries very highly responsible and enthusiastic about what her working and studying.Her art style is various, which contains so many diversities that are not limited by anything, she loves doing what she wants to do, to show what is inside her body and mind. However, as a rule, follower, she always obeys what the rules asked if needed.As a big fan of Chinese traditions, she loves making her art with many elements from her culture aim to show precious to more peoples all over the world. By combining the skills that she learned from Canada with her ideas where she comes from, she believes she can create much more powerful wonderful special artworks that are represented a kind of cultural fusion. Huaning currently lives and studies in Toronto, Canada.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
Major Completed, 2022

Digital Painting 2d animation Character Design Compositing Hand Painting & Drawing Photoshop; AfterEffects; Premiere; MAYA

2022, 2022, Yonge-Dundas Square Public Digital Exhibition
Toronto, ON
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