A Magical Story, 2017
Wayang Kuilt Animation for 3840 x 480 LED Screen
Hannah Kwah

Short Abstract:
A Magical Story is inspired by a Malaysian folktale, Umpong-Umpong and Babakud. Each part of the scene recreates the story of two lovers where the girl was transformed into a peacock by an evil witch and the boy finding a magical flower to change her back together with other girls that are trapped in the cages as birds. In this piece, I was inspired by Wayang Kuilt hence deciding to use paper cutting as a medium to showcase the asian elements of storytelling. The animals moving around creates an illusion of interaction with the piece.

Selected Still Images:

Final Video:

Methodology(Unity + digital illustrations):
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/10/09/process-wip-unity-tryouts/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/10/16/process-wip-unity-tryouts-2/

Methodology(After Effects + digital illustrations):
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/10/23/process-wip-after-effects-tryouts/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/10/30/process-wip-after-effects-tryouts-2/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/11/06/process-wip-after-effects-tryouts-3/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/11/13/process-wip-after-effects-tryouts-4/

Exhibition at Art Media Nexus

Photos credits: Solomon Quek Jia Liang. A Magical Story, MAN NTU LED, 15m by 2m, North Spine Plaza NTU Singapore 2017.

Research (mockups – paper & trying out unity):
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/09/01/moodboard/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/09/11/process-storyboard/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/09/18/processstoryboard-revision-illustration-technical-tryout/

Mockups (illustration of wayang kuilt – digital):
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/09/25/process-wip-mockups/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/hkwah001/2017/09/29/process-wip-mockup-2/

Future development:
I would like to make it interactive by exploring more on Unity with Kinect and when the audience passes by he/ she would become a puppet and move around to explore the background instead of seeing it as a film.

Contact info:
Hannah Kwah
hkwah001@e.ntu.edu.sg