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The First Class
2019


Role: Direction & Design & Animation


‘The First Class’ is my second short animation - it aims to highlight the absurdity and brutality of the South Korean education system, in an abstract and metaphorical way.

As an artist who has been exposed to different mediums, I chose to use a  range of mixed media -  2D and 3D digital graphics, frame-by-frame drawn animation and photography.  





Award
Screening

Best Short Animation, Fantasia Film Festival 2019

DHL Diversity, Bucheon International Animation Festival 2019


Fantasia Film Festival [Competition]  (Canada), 2019

Bucheon International Animation Festival [Competition] (Korea), 2019

Kaboom Animation Festival (Netherlands), 2019

Feinaki Beijing Animation Week 2019 [Competition] (China), 2019 

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2020 (Switzerland), 2020 





Process
Storyboard


Colour Scheme


Character Design
Myunguen Kim, Mihye Choi




Background Design sketch


Styleframe Development




3D object
( C4D modeling → After Effects | Plug-in: Element 3D + Texture )



Tools



Credits

Director: Myungeun Kim
Storyboard: Myungeun Kim, Mihye Choi
Artwork: Myungeun Kim
Character design: Myungeun Kim, Mihye Choi
Animation: Myungeun Kim, Changwhi Kim
Music: Skillbard
Sound & mixing: Jimmy Sert