Animation supervisor for AF

I've left ILM after 4yrs and 7month of stint there. I joined Atomic Fiction as animation supervisor, helping them to establish creature animation offering. very excited about the new adventure.

Kai Hua Lan Creature Animation Reel

Kai-Hua Lan Creature Animation Reel 2017 from Kevin Lan on Vimeo.

Cinefx 152 cover

my squid shot is on the cover of Cinefx. After reading it I feel like I need put more info about animation out there
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- I have never seen the old boy eating squid reference.

-The shot was turned over to me with just a concept drawing. Then I found this footage to study how gorilla eat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTq_ZhhQLTM

- Initially I requested we need more extreme lip shape for this shot but was told our shape and texture won't hold up for the extreme stretching. Plus they will sim the lip.So I animate loosely on the lip, with jaw doing most of the work.

- months past they realized the sim and mcor are not going to work. I jumped back to the shot.

-after several back and forth. I went all out on our lip shape anim, tweaker and whatever pushing way beyond limit.

-Lana Lan did a lot of mcor work to make sure lip and squid stick together and have correct deform during interaction.

WarCraft in 44th Annie nomination

I am nominated in 44th Annie award for Warcraft

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production

Warcraft - Orcs - Animation Supervisor: Hal Hickel,
Facial Anim Dev : Jee Young Park,
Sequence Lead Animator: Kai-Hua Lan,
Animation Supervisor: Cedric Lo,
Animation Supervisor: KimHuat Ooi

Congrats to all ILM warcraft anim team

Warcraft reel

Kai-Hua Lan's Warcraft animation reel from Kevin Lan on Vimeo.

43rd Annie award nominees

I am lucky enough to be nominated for Annie award this year.

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production
The Revenant – The Bear -
Animation Supervisor: Matthew Shumway, Lead Digital Artist: Adrian Millington, Digital Artist: Blaine Toderian, Digital Artist: Alexander Poei, Digital Artist: Kai-Hua Lan


Whole list: Here

Revenant

now I can even appreciate more for what we did on Life of pi. We struggled for more than 8month on the bear in Revenant. People are still rebuilding the whole bear shot by shot, crazy.

Richard Parker Animation & Development Reel from Life of Pi from Kevin Lan on Vimeo.

11th Annual VES award nominations

I am honored to be nominated in VES award for my work in Life of Pi / Richard Parker 11th-Annual-VES-Awards-Nominees

A Sci-Fi Vehicle

Now more people return to work, my downtime is getting more noisy....Nooooooo

Another one

Just can't stop it...

Mr.Popper's penguin

Ok, I am pretty much the character lead on this show.
I created the animation library and set the tone and standard for animation style and quality.

Now, there are some animator or supervisor thought they are clever or something.
They tried to change the library animation and do their own thing in their shots.
, ends up being pretty bad animation.....

what the hell are you guys thinking?!

Back to work today

Luckily I don't have anything to do today, keep working on my own stuff.
Really, I want to finish my reel and find another job this year.
This is a good company, but I just can't stay here seeing myself decaying.....
TsuiChun said my work stops improving...that's really a shame. I have worked on several films and I still feel like I haven't done anything meaningful.