Stop Motion and 2D reels

My Reels for up to 2021. Sorry They are not public at the moment, please contact me for password if you want to see them. I will constantly be updating these.

Stop Motion Animation

Tina T. Hsu stop motion reel from Tina T. Hsu on Vimeo.

2D Animation

Tina T. Hsu 2D reel from Tina T. Hsu on Vimeo.

0:02 - 0:17 Storyboard, rough and cleanup animation

0:17 - 0:18 2D Animation, tie-down, cleanup and paint

0:18 - 0:21 Animation cleanup and paint

0:21 - 0:25 Storyboard, 2D animation(rough/cleanup/color)

0:25 - 0:28 Animation tie down, clean up and paint

0:28 - 0:34 2D animation, cleanup and paint

0:34 - 0:55 rough animation

0:55 - 0:59 animation/paint

0:59 - 1:11 Everything visual (storyboard to finish)

1:11 - 1:18 Everything visual besides ship (rough animation to finish)

1:18 - 1:45 Everything visual

Honda: Dream Commute

From February to end of March 2018, I worked on the Honda: Dream Commute campaign for North Cal Honda also at Bent Image Lab.

The project was very mixed media in that it was a 2D + 3D animation/Live action people + puppet in one melting pot kind of spot. I was involved with character design, storyboard(everything except first establishing shot) and all the 2D bird animation. Since I have only boarded for 2D projects up to this point, it was the first time I saw my boards turn into 3D animation. It was also the first time I saw my storyboards on a (not very) big board for live action shoots. I also had to animate semi blindly while waiting for the live action plate to arrive, which took quite a bit of retrofitting when the plates finally did arrive.


Honda - Dream Commute from Bent Image Lab on Vimeo.

Here is the animatic I and Jesse Mcmanus did. I boarded (or at least roughed out) everything in the spot besides the opening shot. Jesse was responsible for the opening shot, building designs and also cleaning up some of my rough boards. We boarded the majority of it in two days, and then revised for a few more days according to client notes.

Honda Dream Commute Animatic from Tina T. Hsu on Vimeo.

Here is the link to full credits/BTS on Bent's website
http://bentimagelab.com/honda-dream-commute/

Some of the design work I did for this spot.
The Blue Bird I got to animate. I took the chosen concept sketch by Jesse and retooled it for final model for animation.

Some unused dog puppet concept sketches

Some cloud concept sketches that turned into 3D characters

Here are some BTS photos from my Ipad.

The Domestic Goddess (working title) WIP stuff

These are WIP from a project I just started a little while ago as a portfolio piece. I am slowly flushing out my ideas. I am still trying things out and will be updating this constantly.

Some Designs just so I know who these characters are.

This is the story reel of one of the scenes at the location designed above, sort of an early/opening sequence.

I have not had the time to separate all the layers and put in the camera moves so these are just the storyboard panels roughly cut together. I hope the distinction between continuing panels and cuts are not too confusing.


The Domestic Goddess (working title) story sample from Tina T. Hsu on Vimeo.


The Boards.