Completion year: 2025
Length: 7 min 40 s
Synopsis: An octopus finds her new favourite toy – a plastic cup – unaware it will carry her far from home and into the vast, dangerous yet wonderful sea.
Produced by: Studio Biped
The full film will be released here after the 2-year festival run.
Main Credits
Written & directed by: Anita So, Angela Wong
Animation: Siu Fong, Yi-Hsuan Kao, Hillary Tang, Angela Wong, Koneko Yeung
Background art: Leung Wing Shuen, Hillary Tang
Music: John M. Churchill
Supporting software: Expresii
Funded by: CreateHK
Find Find is a digital watercolour animated short completed in late 2025, currently on the festival circuit. It follows an octopus who finds a plastic cup and immediately falls in love with it, unaware of the price she will pay. Whether this is a blessing or a curse, or a little of both, is left for the audience to decide.
The film draws on a technical process I began developing in 2020, programming the computer to paint watercolour animation frame by frame. A fuller introduction to the technique can be found on R&D of Find Find, a presentation prepared for a HKUST forum. The process will soon be available as a free experimental tool: After Effects to Expresii Bridge. Despite the new technology, traditional animation remains the foundation of the artistic vision.
Find Find has entered three Oscar-qualifying and one BAFTA-qualifying festivals, won Best Professional Short Animated Film at the Chitkara International Animation Film Festival and Judges’ Choice at the Vermont Animation Festival. I’m extremely proud of our team and grateful for their beautiful work, some of which I’ll be sharing on this page. Credit is always given.
Screenshots
Posters
Pre-production
Character Design
Concept Art
Colour script
Production
Key animations by Siu Fong and Yi-Hsuan Kao
