Interview with Martial Art instructor: Carson Lau
Interview with Martial Art instructor: Carson Lau

Video

Interview with Martial Art instructor: Carson Lau

Carson has been teaching traditional Chinese martial art --- Wing Tsun, for more than 40 years, and Carson had talked about the characteristics of Wing Tsun and how he teaches students in this interview.

Practice (Lip Sync)
Practice (Lip Sync)

Animation

Practice (Lip Sync)

This was an exercise focusing on sound synchronization between the original voice from source footage and the lip's motion of an animated character.

Practice (Rotoscope)
Practice (Rotoscope)

Animation

Practice (Rotoscope)

This is a hand drawn animation that animated with rotoscope technique. The animation focuses on the movements of live action and the conversion of media from video to animation, which every punches from the original fight scenes were replaced by... More

Practice (Staging and storyboarding)
Practice (Staging and storyboarding)

Video

Practice (Staging and storyboarding)

This is a staging and storyboarding practice focuses on the fluency of a story sequence. Martial art is always a great tool to help me practice film and video production. A simple story and a fight scene were filmed and edited during this practice.

Practice (Storyboarding)
Practice (Storyboarding)

Video

Practice (Storyboarding)

This is a video filmed and edited to for the practice of storyboarding. The video doesn't have a narrative as I aimed to focus on the fluency of the sequence

Selfie
Selfie

Video

Selfie

Selfie is a video focused on the abuse of social media. As image editing software become more and more advanced and common, trustworthiness of images on internet and social media become lower as most of them are over-edited, especially the selfies... More

Shadow
Shadow

Animation

Shadow

Shadow is a skeletal animation that aims to visualize one's mentality. People are competing to each other all the time, for example, students are competing each other in order to get enrolled to the best school and universities; while workers are... More

The Ice Cube
The Ice Cube

Animation

The Ice Cube

The Ice Cube is a narrative, 2D rotoscope animation focused on the theme of the Greenhouse Effect. The animation explores how the Greenhouse Effect influences the environment and affects relationships between people. The story depicts two... More

Untitled
Untitled

Animation

Untitled

This is an animated fight scene that focuses on the basics and principles of animation. It was created in my first year of OCAD U and everything, including software and animation techniques, were new to me.

Untitled (Second Draft)
Untitled (Second Draft)

Publication

Untitled (Second Draft)

Untitled is a script focuses on a story of a disabled girl. Hanah, who become disabled after an accident. The lost of mobility and her sister's over-protection had become the obstacles that stopped Hanah from chasing her dream. I aim to focus on... More

Virtual Imagination #1
Virtual Imagination #1

Integrated Media

Virtual Imagination #1

Virtual Imagination is a series of miniatures depicting dream-like realms through 3D modelling. All miniatures were inspired from sudden brainwaves.

Virtual Imagination #2
Virtual Imagination #2

Integrated Media

Virtual Imagination #2

Virtual Imagination is a series of miniatures depicting dream-like realms through 3D modelling. All miniatures were inspired from sudden brainwaves.

Virtual Imagination #3
Virtual Imagination #3

Integrated Media

Virtual Imagination #3

Virtual Imagination is a series of miniatures depicting dream-like realms through 3D modelling. All miniatures were inspired from sudden brainwaves.

Virtual Imagination #4
Virtual Imagination #4

Integrated Media

Virtual Imagination #4

Virtual Imagination is a series of miniatures depicting dream-like realms through 3D modelling. All miniatures were inspired from sudden brainwaves.

Work by

Ian Chan