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Felled – 2023 Graduate Film (Teaser)
Director and Animator
Synopsis: A tree spirit finds that her tree has been cut down and plots revenge against the evil perpetrator.
Joy Zou’s 2023 graduate film completed as part of RMIT University’s Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media). Coming soon!!
TANKARD – ‘Beerbarians’ Official Music Video
Student Co-Director | Storyboard Lead | Lead Animator
This was created collaboratively as part of RMIT Animation’s third-year studio course. Nuclear Blast is a German independent heavy metal music label and a major international client.
We worked in a group studio environment to create a new 2D animated music video for one of Nuclear Blast’s high-profile heavy metal bands: TANKARD. TANKARD is considered one of the “Big Four” of Teutonic thrash metal (with Kreator, Destruction and Sodom).
- 🌏 World Premiere – Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival, Australia
- 🏆 Winner: Best Music Video – Fort Smith International Film Festival, Arkansas US
- 🏆 Winner: Best Advertising Short/Video – FIA Festival Internacional De Animacion, Montevideo, Uruguay
- 🏆 Winner: Student Recognition Award – Anima Cinefest, New York US
- 20+ official selections
Social Wellbeing – A Bullying Story
Animator | Storyboard Artist | Background Artist
Client: Challenges Abroad & FutureSense
This was created collaboratively as part of RMIT Animation’s second-year studio course.
We worked with NGO partners and the Cambodian community (Battambang) to tackle important community and public messaging. This was a virtual studio – we remotely operated as a production studio for the NGO client in Cambodia (Challenges Abroad).