Gong Gong
Director/ AIGC / Editor
Gong Gong is an animation documentary about my grandpa. While I was feeling the success of my life after a dance tour with an artist in New York in summer 2023, I received a devastating phone call from my dad, telling me that my grandpa has passed away. I booked an emergent flight back to China immediately. On the plane, I had so many flashbacks to the memories with my grandpa. These fragments of memories are the gundam toys he bought, the old rental apartment we had, and the globe we checked together. I started to understand all the success I gained outside would be pointless if I lost the people who could share it with me.

The animation uses AI as a strong tool to replicate a lot of the moments that could never be shot again, exploring the use of different generative AI tool for a stylized aesthetics. Instead of pure prompt generation, I use AI to add onto the traditional animation making process. With that being said, we still have our storyboard artist developing the very first draft of storyboard and character design, allowing AI to work as a renderer for each frame and an animator.


Work in Progress:



AI render frame:


Character Design with AI for coloring