陈雷
Lei Chen
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Born in 1977, Lei Chen grew up in a small island called Gulangyu in south east China. During 4 years (1996-2000) of study at Fuzhou University on environmental design, he has won quite a few prizes however he was still pretty disappointed on this industry in China. So he went to Tsinghua University, Beijing for a master degree of automobile design. It was in this period that Lei realised that he was more interested in computer animation than design. After graduation, instead of being an industrial designer, Lei became a CG (Computer Graphic) freelancer. He has done quite a few commercial adverts and game intro animations for Beijing's leading CG companies. In 2004 he came to UK to study at NCCA (National Centre for Computer Animation). In 2006 Lei's short film 'Brush' won the first rank prize of Animago festival and has been included in Siggraph Electronic Theater as well as its annual review. The other short film 'Wonderland' directed by Lei won the First prize of Crash Fest Festival. Currently he works as a CG artist for Framestore, which is the largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe. Lei specialises in concept design, 3d graphic and short film directing.
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Selected works:
Brush
Short film “Brush” can be deemed as a metaphor of artists’ destination. The story is about an old artist trying to draw a horse, as his last master piece. In his illusion, he crashed into the canvas and entered the space of paper. He began to draw in the air. At the end of the story, the artist gave his own life to the horse. In 2006 this film was included in SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre, which is a great honor in 3d animation field. So far it was the second time that Chinese animation ever entered this theater.
Dreamland
This is an experiment 3d animation I directed in 2005. The story is about a dream of a modern fisherman. The dreaming sequence of the film realizes a Chinese painting-like dreamland. Here the challenge is how to interpolate Chinese 2.5 D painting space in a precise 3D space.
