10 yrs veteran

I am a 10 yr veteran today. (3/5/2017)

10 years ago, March 5 2007, I started my VFX career at Rhythm & Hues Studios, working on Golden Compass.

Back in the day R&H flew me to Los Angeles for interview, Matt Logue and Keith Roberts chatted with me, we looked at my reel and they asked if I am ready to change my anim over and over again because thats the nature of business. I eagerly said yes!

The money in VFX was not great, but I've met great people and made good friends in the industry. I usually worked on movies tank in box office or involving talking animal, however that makes the few rare moment we accomplished something impossible much more memorable. And heck, I even started drinking beer because of VFX.

I want to say thank you, lets toast to the great 10 yrs and much more decade to come

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.

Warcraft trailer

Revenant won at 43rd Annie awards

This goes out to all the artists involved.

Practical effects in the Force Awakens

To be honest, practical effects are really out of date and look bad.

It's limited to the physical mechanical limits and it could never transform the accurate creature skin slide and physicality on screen.


The worst shot in the Revenant? The shot where they have a dead bear stuffy on Leo and people turned it over.

The Revenant

Such a poetic and beautiful film.


The opening scenes(Leo with his wife and son, the camera pan slowly from water flowing to forest) reminds of Tarkovsky's aesthetic.

This film is about Death, how insignificant it can be and how a person in giangatic nature environment faces his life comes to an end.

I loved the last shot where Leo stares into camera.