Lecturer:

Yeenshi Chen

About lecturer:

Yeenshi Chen is from Hsinchu, Taiwan and holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. She has contributed to more than 40 Hollywood movies as a digital modeler and modeling supervisor at Rhythm & Hues Studios in California, including ""Harry Potter"", and two Academy Award winning movies for Best Visual Effects, "The Golden Compass" and "Life of Pi." In 2014, she was hired by Sony Picture Imageworks in Vancouver as a senior modeler and modeling lead. The films she participated in while at SPI include the Academy Award Nominee for Best Animated Feature “Over The Moon" and the Academy Award nominee for Best Visual Effects “Spider-Man: No Way Home." In 2021, she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has since participated in nominating and voting on Academy Award winners for Best Animation, Best Film Special Effects, and other awards.

Lecture:

Digital modeling is an essential element in visual effects and animation production, closely interconnected with all departments involved in the production process. In this lecture, Yeenshi will start by guiding everyone through the digital modeling techniques from the 1990s, a golden era for the industry, and then introduce the workflow followed by Hollywood’s special effects and animation studios from project inception to completion, and explain the importance of digital modeling at each stage of the production process. Through excerpts from projects Yeenshi had participated in, students will gain insight from the production and review methods used by leading studios in digital modeling and character design.