Celestial
Vicky Shunyi Xi
MFA Thesis 2024
The grim reaper tries to take a sick child, but her mother won't let her go.
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Phosphenes
Delaney McCallum
MFA Thesis 2024
A journey through a dream with a first-person perspective.
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Perfect City: The Strangers
Shengwei Zhou
MFA THESIS 2024
Amid the shadows, water flows, breaking the shell.
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The Menace From Above
Mariam Khayat
MFA Thesis 2021
In the shallow waters of the Red Sea, a happy-go-lucky fish sets out to save sea creatures from a soulless monster.
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Restless is the Night
Yuehan Tan & Xiaoxue Meng
MFA Thesis 2022
This is a 2D narrative animation that tells the story of two women of different ages trying to take control of their own lives.
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Go, More, Faster
Eli Ayres
MFA Thesis 2021
Three interlocking vignettes of motorized mayhem
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My Number One
Ros Fiol
My Number One
Two brothers fight over (and within!) a kiddy racing video game
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Circles of Care
Ana Carolina Estarita
MFA Thesis 2019
Interactive Installation. An experience that takes the visitors on a journey following the life cycle of a living system
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Boy Cut
Cullen Burt, Abby Corbett, Indira Escobar, Shon Xiao
Documentary Animation Production
Something as simple as a haircut can mean so much to one person.
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Vicious Cycle - the mother
TIANYUN LYU
Production 1
An experimental autobiographical documentary about an over-controlling mother who eventually pushes her daughter away.
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Perfect City: The Mother
Shengwei Zhou
Perfect City: The Mother
Shush.…Mommy loves you
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Forever
Mitch McGlocklin
MFA Thesis 2020
Judgment by an AI algorithm leads to personal introspection.
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Moses Beyond the Waves
Dina Garatley
MFA Thesis 2024
A parable that continues to resonate today as people flee their homelands.
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Perfect City The Mother
Shengwei Zhou
Expanded Animation
A wood mother tries to carve her root baby into a doll.
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Invisible Force
Delaney McCallum
Production 2
A series of animated vignettes that explore the interconnectedness of all living things.
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The Bravest Kid
Shengwei Zhou
The Bravest Kid
Mom? Dad?
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Pause. Play. Repeat
Ankita Panda
MFA Thesis 2020
Identifying the patterns that exist in the macro and micro systems around us
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Celestial
Vicky Shunyi Xi
MFA Thesis 2024
The grim reaper tries to take a sick child, but her mother won't let her go.
Watch Clip
Wild Animal
Tianyun Lyu
MFA Thesis 2024
In the Mongolian wilds, a hunter's heir, with his father, a bond so rare.
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Phosphenes
Delaney McCallum
Perfect City: The Strangers
Shengwei Zhou
Perfect City The Mother
Shengwei Zhou
Expanded Animation
A wood mother tries to carve her root baby into a doll.
Watch Clip
Vicious Cycle - the mother
TIANYUN LYU
Production 1
An experimental autobiographical documentary about an over-controlling mother who eventually pushes her daughter away.
Watch Clip
Invisible Force
Delaney McCallum
Production 2
A series of animated vignettes that explore the interconnectedness of all living things.
Watch Clip
Touch Emptiness
Shengwei Zhou
Ceramic + Animation Installation
Solo exhibition combining four flatscreens with digital animation and ceramics.
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Forever
Mitch McGlocklin
Go, More, Faster
Eli Ayres
Sports Day
Jessica Wu
Camp Kona
Adriel Meka
Camp Kona
A lonely kid finds an unexpected friend when forced to attend a summer camp with a dark secret
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Re-animated
USC Collaboration
A behind-the-scenes look at the immersive "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Re-animated," featuring original animation by USC students projection mapped onto Doheny Library.
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My Number One
Ros Fiol
Sunset City
Junwen Yu
MFA Thesis 2022
An experimental animation about a woman and her friend communicating through dreams in the afterlife
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MIXTAPE
Kaitlyn Leewing
MFA Thesis 2020
Jorrie explores the beauty and complications of love while awake and dreaming
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Restless is the Night
Yuehan Tan & Xiaoxue Meng
MFA Thesis 2022
This is a 2D narrative animation that tells the story of two women of different ages trying to take control of their own lives.
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There Were Four of US
Cassie Shao
MFA Thesis 2019
A dream journey that travels through a room where four characters are trapped, through moments in their lives and through the symbol of death that connected them together
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Meiyu (Words of Her)
Charlene Xu
MFA thesis 2024
Inexplicable sensations torment a distressed woman's mind and body like Meiyu, so she sinks into the reeds that grow out of her wounds.
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One Day I May
Shon Xiao
MFA THESIS 2024
And, as it emerges from its chrysalis I think, "How wonderful it must feel to fly!"
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Moses Beyond the Waves
Dina Garatley
MFA THESIS 2024
A parable that continues to resonate today as people flee their homelands.
Watch Clip
Boy Cut
Cullen Burt, Abby Corbett, Indira Escobar, Shon Xiao
Documentary Animation Production
Something as simple as a haircut can mean so much to one person.
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Blue Again
Shon Xiao
production 1
As a swimmer goes through puberty, their discomfort with their body begins to push them away from their love of swimming.
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Abhaile
Kaisey McCallion
Abhaile
A pocket watch sends an Irish migrant back to a surrealist expanded moment in his homeland
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Circles of Care
Ana Carolina Estarita
MFA Thesis 2019
Interactive Installation. An experience that takes the visitors on a journey following the life cycle of a living system
Watch Clip
Pause. Play. Repeat
Ankita Panda
MFA Thesis 2020
Identifying the patterns that exist in the macro and micro systems around us
Watch Clip
Perfect City: The Bravest Kid
Shengwei Zhou
Together / Apart
David Amberg
MFA Thesis 2021
Together/Apart is an animated queer melodrama, about a couple weathering the aftermath of a
homophobic attack.
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The Menace From Above
Mariam Khayat
MFA Thesis 2021
In the shallow waters of the Red Sea, a happy-go-lucky fish sets out to save sea creatures from a soulless monster.
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Last Stop
Shelby Chan
MFA Thesis 2021
In a single day, we follow a girl growing up through childhood, adolescence, and into
adulthood, in the transitory space of a bus (SF Muni)
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What They Left Behind
Vicky Gu
MFA Thesis 2022
Several years after her grandfathers had passed away, a young woman recollects her memories of them.
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Trueself.exe
Victoria Cruell
Trueself.exe
A young woman becomes obsessed with the perfect alter ego living inside of her computer and must embrace her insecurities in order to free herself from the ego’s overbearing pull.
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Thread
Yuri Jang
Simulacra
Curry Sicong Tian
MFA Thesis 2020
An elderly Buddhist woman recalls a ritual from her past, undertaking a journey of duality
expressed through her many identities
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Celestial
Vicky Shunyi Xi
MFA THESIS 2024
The grim reaper tries to take a sick child, but her mother won't let her go.
Watch Clip
Meiyu (Words of Her)
Charlene Xu
MFA THESIS 2024
Inexplicable sensations torment a distressed woman's mind and body like Meiyu, so she sinks into the reeds that grow out of her wounds.
Watch Clip
Wild Animal
Tianyun Lyu
MFA THESIS 2024
In the Mongolian wilds, a hunter's heir, with his father, a bond so rare.
Watch Clip
Phosphenes
Delaney McCallum
Perfect City: The Strangers
Shengwei Zhou
One Day I May
Shon Xiao
MFA THESIS 2024
And, as it emerges from its chrysalis I think, "How wonderful it must feel to fly!"
Watch Clip
Moses Beyond the Waves
Dina Garatley
MFA THESIS 2024
A parable that continues to resonate today as people flee their homelands.
Watch Clip
Perfect City The Mother
Shengwei Zhou
Expanded Animation
A wood mother tries to carve her root baby into a doll.
Watch Clip
Boy Cut
Cullen Burt, Abby Corbett, Indira Escobar, Shon Xiao
Documentary Animation Production
Something as simple as a haircut can mean so much to one person.
Watch Clip
Vicious Cycle - the mother
TIANYUN LYU
Production 1
An experimental autobiographical documentary about an over-controlling mother who eventually pushes her daughter away.
Watch Clip
Invisible Force
Delaney McCallum
Production 2
A series of animated vignettes that explore the interconnectedness of all living things.
Watch Clip
Blue again
Shon Xiao
Production 1
As a swimmer goes through puberty, their discomfort with their body begins to push them away from their love of swimming.
Watch Clip
Touch Emptiness
Shengwei Zhou
Ceramic + Animation Installation
Solo exhibition combining four flatscreens with digital animation and ceramics.
Watch Clip
Perfect City: The Bravest Kid
Shengwei Zhou
Forever
Mitch McGlocklin
Perfect City: The Mother
Shengwei Zhou
Together / Apart
David Amberg
MFA Thesis 2021
Together/Apart is an animated queer melodrama, about a couple weathering the aftermath of a
homophobic attack.
Watch Clip
MIXTAPE
Kaitlyn Leewing
MFA Thesis 2020
Jorrie explores the beauty and complications of love while awake and dreaming
Watch Clip
What They Left Behind
Vicky Gu
MFA Thesis 2022
Several years after her grandfathers had passed away, a young woman recollects her memories of them.
Watch Clip
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Re-animated
USC Collaboration
A behind-the-scenes look at the immersive "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Re-animated," featuring original animation by USC students projection mapped onto Doheny Library.
Watch Clip
My Number One
Ros Fiol
Trueself.exe
Victoria Cruell
Trueself.exe
A young woman becomes obsessed with the perfect alter ego living inside of her computer and must embrace her insecurities in order to free herself from the ego’s overbearing pull.
Watch Clip
There Were Four of US
Cassie Shao
MFA Thesis 2019
A dream journey that travels through a room where four characters are trapped, through moments in their lives and through the symbol of death that connected them together
Watch Clip
Camp Kona
Adriel Meka
Camp Kona
A lonely kid finds an unexpected friend when forced to attend a summer camp with a dark secret
Watch Clip
Thread
Yuri Jang
Simulacra
Curry Sicong Tian
MFA Thesis 2020
An elderly Buddhist woman recalls a ritual from her past, undertaking a journey of duality
expressed through her many identities
Watch Clip
Sports Day
Jessica Wu
Last Stop
Shelby Chan
MFA Thesis 2021
In a single day, we follow a girl growing up through childhood, adolescence, and into
adulthood, in the transitory space of a bus (SF Muni)
Watch Clip
Abhaile
Kaisey McCallion
Abhaile
A pocket watch sends an Irish migrant back to a surrealist expanded moment in his homeland
Watch Clip
Pause. Play. Repeat
Ankita Panda
MFA Thesis 2020
Identifying the patterns that exist in the macro and micro systems around us
Watch Clip
Circles of Care
Ana Carolina Estarita
MFA Thesis 2019
Interactive Installation. An experience that takes the visitors on a journey following the life cycle of a living system
Watch Clip
The Menace From Above
Mariam Khayat
MFA Thesis 2021
In the shallow waters of the Red Sea, a happy-go-lucky fish sets out to save sea creatures from a soulless monster.
Watch Clip
Restless is the Night
Yuehan Tan & Xiaoxue Meng
MFA Thesis 2022
This is a 2D narrative animation that tells the story of two women of different ages trying to take control of their own lives.
Watch Clip
Sunset City
Junwen Yu
MFA Thesis 2022
An experimental animation about a woman and her friend communicating through dreams in the afterlife
Watch Clip
Go, More, Faster
Eli Ayres
Expanded Animation Research + Practice
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
900 W. 34th St., SCA 250
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
U.S.A.
Expanded Animation Research + Practice
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
900 W. 34th St., SCA 250
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
U.S.A.
Expanded Animation Research + Practice
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
900 W. 34th St., SCA 250
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
U.S.A.