This is a page for Yushan's personal work (side projects of a western animator).
Bold Contrail Animations is a (currently one-man) studio created by Yushan Huang, working on the indie animation "Vertical Summit" (a work in progress) - a somewhat-philosophical fiction about modern air warfare (with planes based on modern fighter jets) with a touch of Canada.
F/A-18C Lot 20 cockpit (US Navy version), DCS version. Proportions are a bit off (e.g. short HUD), could have been ameliorated by planning the panel sizes ahead of time, starting with the HUD, DDIs, and MPCD, on the instrument panel. Very happy to have learned what most of these interfaces / visuals indicate over the last few months. Still a lot to learn, so much unclass info out there.
Anirevo and the Abbotsford Air Show conflicted this year, but made the best out of both! Would have not gone without awesome friends in either. Gonna throw in the media together, some photos will be have descriptors. The "Animation Analysis" panel has gotten better after each iteration over the past year!
Otafest (Calgary con a week ago) update
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Qr-ikOiCp/?img_index=1
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Animation Analysis panel at Harumatsuri (Burnaby, BC).
Coming to Calgary next month!!
-Yushan
Got accepted to two panels in
Marcille from Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon
(In retrospect, arm lengths could use fixing hahaha)
With the first season of the MF Ghost anime finishing this week, I thought I had to make the pun
Completed approved F3/4 and R3/4 on the build (with the help of friends, see below). Normally it'd be considered complete by now, but I wanted to make sure it's tweenable and plan to possibly have perspective poses later (there were some before, but there's been design changes since). Mouth charts for front and profilve views are done too (has been for a long time, along with teeth for perspective (mostly not visible))
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My post on LinkedIn:
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I've been using the past few months to plus up on my skills in the animation industry!
- A lot of storyboard work including a test (sorry, signed an NDA to not share), and I'm currently in the middle of an online course.
- Brushing up the pitch on my fiction, including more research (it's always ongoing) and ideas for plot points!
- This Harmony build / rig that took me over 100 hours so far due to inexperience having never worked as a build artist (my jobs have been all on Harmony, but either as a character animator or animation revisionist), a relatively complicated design (at least compared to a lot of TV builds I've seen), and me being a stickler to make almost all parts tween (a lot of extra effort!). It was a great learning experience. Far from perfect (e.g. look at that halo on the neck hahaha), but Front to F3/4 works well with some tweaks (this is a 2D build, not a 3D build, so a lot of things have to be moved to cheat it!). Builds being tweenable is something I noticed is lacking from a lot of professional TV builds despite many of them having a simpler design.
You'll notice that the ears and shoes are tweened, but the hands 'pop' between views - they are drawing substitutions and the only part of this build that that does NOT tween. It's theoretically possible to tween hands but it's very inefficient (faster to just cheat it and draw the inbetweens where you can't) and usually results in simple and/or unappealing hands (although it'd be cool to be proven wrong, I'd love to see a well-done 2D rigged hand).
Critique is welcome, I'm always looking to improve!
REVISIONS
Thanks to various members of the Arthouse discord group and other friends, but especially these professionals who have given a disproportionate amount of critique:
Daniel Ding
Katie Li
Chris McLean
Harmony build progress - Front, profile, rear mostly done w/ eye style revs (although in the next version there will be some changes). Sunk a lot of hours into this!
Build is almost done! Will probably do an animation to test it, make some revisions, then immediately jump to a design change.
Young Love credits (HBO Max) - just came out today
Worked on this show last year - it comes out Sept. 21 (next week)!
When life gets messy, feel the love. premieres September 21 on Max. ...
Latest credits (Solar Opposites S4 - Hulu)
-Yushan
"Animation Analysis" panel at Anirevo 2023 was good for a first-ever run overall despite a rocky start*! Thanks for all who came, hope to see you again!
*Live drawing attempt at very beginning was a failure, see post's graphic. Jittery hands thanks to a combination of unexpected stage fright, a lot of caffeine, and a laggy craptop - just abandoned midway. Fortunately, it wasn't the main topic of the panel, just a filler before the introduction as people were settling in the room. Might still try again next time! 💪
Anime Revolution (Anirevo schedule is out)! If you're in this convention in Vancouver, swing by my panel - Room 111, 5-7pm on SATURDAY!
https://summer.animerevolution.ca/programming/schedule/
Pose practice w ref
The trailer for one of the projects I worked on last year is out!
When you don't want to hurt your hairstylist’s feelings but you gotta be red-carpet ready before bedtime.Based on the award-winning animated short from Matth...
Anime Revolution (AniRevo) convention panel - Animation Analysis panel time (tentative) is Saturday August 19th. 5 pm - 7 pm / Room 111
Might draw this pose live as people are flowing in
IMDb page update!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12607405/
- I was on more episodes on Young Love but show is not out yet so I cannot select them yet
- Not all Molly episodes included because they are still being released
- Hamsters of Hamsterdale is announced so I can mention it, but is not out yet and I was just on one episode
- Another short experience on another show, not sure if announced yet, just one episode
Me (left) copying a trigger pose (right), during a live drawing session (at the same time, with some modifications) - Anime Expo 2023
-Yushan
Earlier this week, my panel on ANIMATION ANALYSIS in Anime Revolution (AniRevo) 2023 has been approved (but see highlighted text, not 100% guaranteed to be on the schedule)!
Since they will NOT have wifi guaranteed for the panelists, I want to open it up for suggestions now so I can download video clips ahead of time!
Find your favourite clips on Sakugabooru (or any other site that allows me to download at 24 fps)! https://sakugabooru.com/post
Thinking of putting this design on a ramen bowl in Anime Expo
These Netflix interactives were a challenge to revise, looking forward for the finished product :)
Two productions I worked on have come out on Netflix just a few weeks apart!
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Completed approved F3/4 and R3/4 on the build (with the help of friends, see below). Normally it'd be considered complete by now, but I wanted to make sure it's tweenable and plan to possibly have perspective poses later (there were some before, but there's been design changes since). Mouth charts for front and profilve views are done too (has been for a long time, along with teeth for perspective (mostly not visible)) ***** My post on LinkedIn: -- I've been using the past few months to plus up on my skills in the animation industry! - A lot of storyboard work including a test (sorry, signed an NDA to not share), and I'm currently in the middle of an online course. - Brushing up the pitch on my fiction, including more research (it's always ongoing) and ideas for plot points! - This Harmony build / rig that took me over 100 hours so far due to inexperience having never worked as a build artist (my jobs have been all on Harmony, but either as a character animator or animation revisionist), a relatively complicated design (at least compared to a lot of TV builds I've seen), and me being a stickler to make almost all parts tween (a lot of extra effort!). It was a great learning experience. Far from perfect (e.g. look at that halo on the neck hahaha), but Front to F3/4 works well with some tweaks (this is a 2D build, not a 3D build, so a lot of things have to be moved to cheat it!). Builds being tweenable is something I noticed is lacking from a lot of professional TV builds despite many of them having a simpler design. You'll notice that the ears and shoes are tweened, but the hands 'pop' between views - they are drawing substitutions and the only part of this build that that does NOT tween. It's theoretically possible to tween hands but it's very inefficient (faster to just cheat it and draw the inbetweens where you can't) and usually results in simple and/or unappealing hands (although it'd be cool to be proven wrong, I'd love to see a well-done 2D rigged hand).
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