Completion year: 2016
Length: 3 min 43 s
Synopsis: As his village is overwhelmed by an unwelcome harvest, an innocent young boy reluctantly leaps into adulthood.
Main Credits
Directed by: Sarah Sun, Angela Wong
Screenplay: Yiyun Teo
Collaborating scientist: Dr. Lucy Spelman
Sound design: Sarah Sun
Music: John M. Churchill
Produced at: RISD, SCAD
Swarm (2016) is a collaborative graduation film directed by Sarah Sun (RISD) and myself (SCAD), with screenplay by Yiyun Teo and story guidance from Dr. Lucy Spelman. The film follows a village plagued by a locust swarm, in a world where animals have grown scarce. Farmers dress as birds and frogs instead – a reminder that humans too are part of nature’s cycle, harvesting from it and yet threatened by it all the same.
Sarah and I shared character design; she handled set design and painted all the backgrounds, while I drew the storyboards and animated most of the scenes.
Screenshots
Storyboards and mood explorations
Character sculpture
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