Xinyue Gu - Motion Designer
Hi! I'm Casey, a motion designer who loves combining 2D and 3D to explore new ways of storytelling. Here's a collection of my favorite pieces created during the past few years. Thank you for looking at my entry, enjoy!
Xinyue Gu - Motion Designer
Dream Factories
This is the title sequence of a fictional film. An analogy between live streaming and production lines was drawn, connecting the female live streamers today with the women factory workers in the past. I hope that by demonstrating this paired idea, people will pay more attention to the exploitation of women’s labor as well as the long-term plight of women.
Software: Cinema 4D · Redshift · Marvelous Designer · After Effects · Premiere Pro · Daz 3D
Poppy
This is an opening video for the multi-editor project in my motion club DXS. Based on the pairing between “soda” and “communication device”, I explored the communicative nature of the beverage as a social medium.
Software: Cinema 4D · Arnold · RealFlow · After Effects · Premiere Pro
Eternal Weaving
As a music video, this project evolves around the lyrics and the experiences of the two singers, showing the creation and evolution of art, the struggle of being a creator, and the interplay between light and shadow, the strong and the weak.
The use of gilt and fabric textures echoes the correspondence between "weaving" and "creation”, while the use of imagery such as dolls, gears, butterflies, and kaleidoscopes is highly integrated with the singers’ lore. Through symbolic representation, this project expresses that the protagonist finds his artistic vision under the redemption of his partner. Eventually, they are able to weave their own stories together.
Software: After Effects · Blender · Photoshop
Sputnik
The unknowns and mystery of the “Universe” always arouse my imagination. In particular, “Wormhole” is a concept I really like. Motion design and wormhole share common points—they both connect different spaces and dimensions.
In this project, I explored the visual expression of space in our universe, as well as challenged myself to experiment spatial transformation in motion graphics.
Software: After Effects · Blender · Photoshop
CoMotion 2024 - Process of My Part
Space, Depth, The Nature System. In the beginning, there was only black and white—and the seed of life. We built an extensive visual language for CoMotion that expands beyond the limitations of a grid by incorporating both the beauty and structure of sacred geometry.
My role: Animator
Software: Cinema 4D · After Effects · Illustrator · Photoshop
Check out our directors' entry (Kyle Switzer and Muskaan Sethi) for the full version!
Notes
I still keep boxes of CDs in my house, and I’m addicted to the nostalgia they give me. Many people are like me, they love music players in the past. However, they are not me. What kind of people would they be then? How are their personalities? What personal belongings would they own? …
This project, Notes, is an excerpt from an observational sketchbook, showing different people with different characteristics who use different music playing devices.
Software: Cinema 4D · After Effects · Photoshop
Twist the Frames / Cinema Du Reel Title Card
CINÉMA DU RÉEL focuses on documentary films, constantly exploring the boundary between reality and cinematography. By distorting the existing frames in a surreal and micro film world, this project aims to escape from the biases in cinematography and reach the true reality.
Software: Cinema 4D · Redshift ·After Effects · Premiere Pro
Find all attributions here. All assets used were properly modified, re-assembled, textured, and animated for the purpose of the scenes.
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