For this piece, I tried to incorporate imagery from older times and then bring it into the modern era. I chose a dish called cold noodles, or liang pi - an ancient dish created by one of the first dynasties. I’ve been researching Chinese cooking and the history behind it, so I thought this was the best chance to play with those ideas. Growing up, my parents gave us more of an American household so we would fit in more. Since the pandemic began, I took the chance to learn more about cooking traditional Chinese food.
And what was the inspiration of the piece you created for us in Harmony 21? I saw a lot of work coming out that looked clean and that was something I always missed with other programs. I wanted to learn Harmony mainly because it is vector-based. What made you want to learn Toon Boom Harmony? The hotkeys and all the shortcuts made it a lot faster. Yeah, I was freaking out, but then when I got hands-on with it everything made sense. That’s amazing that you produced such a beautiful and technical piece, having just picked up Harmony! Mollie Ong applied a watercolour texture to animated elements in her scene using layers. I’ve been playing around with it and trying to create a new demo reel with it. It’s been really easy to learn, and I was able to pick it up for this piece. I was more familiar with Storyboard Pro going through school at CalArts I didn’t really get a chance to try Toon Boom Harmony until I become an ambassador earlier this year. And you’ve been working on our Harmony 21 demo! How long have you been using Toon Boom Harmony for? I’ve been helping out mainly with the Are You Scared series and they’re starting to bring me on to other minisodes. I’ve been doing a lot of work with Watcher Entertainment, it’s a YouTube channel by Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej from Buzzfeed. And I have been working in animation since graduating. I did two years of animation of community college before transferring to CalArts. I started exploring creative jobs that could support me and animation was one of them, so I looked into it as a senior. James Jean’s artwork made me want to go into art professionally, I was really inspired by his illustrations. When my parents would ask me what I wanted to be, I answered an artist - and then they were like, “But what do you really want to be?” I didn’t see art as a career option until high school. I’ve been drawing since I was a child, though nobody in my family was really into art. Hi, Mollie! How did you get into animation? Keep reading for a flavour of Mollie Ong’s artistic journey, how she prepared her short in just six weeks and which Harmony 21 tools helped along the way.
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Cooked up over six weeks, Ong’s short feels professional and polished - playfully using the magic ingredients of frame-by-frame paperless hand-drawn animation and an expansive colour palette to create a truly savoury piece that tells the story of this timeless dish. The results, much like liang pi, are best served cold. Ong’s Instagram illustrates the artistic taste she has for hand-drawn sketches and watercolour paintings - both of which she was able to integrate effortlessly into her piece using Harmony 21’s layering, drawing and colouring tools. One would never know given how seasoned her 10-second short felt. Though Ong is a Toon Boom Ambassador and recent CalArts graduate, she only began using Harmony recently.
During lockdown, the Los Angeles-based animator and daughter of Singaporean immigrants got a taste for her heritage by learning to make liang pi - an ancient noodle dish, translating to ‘cold skin.’ She then brought this connection with heritage and history to life using Harmony 21. Each artist hired for the project contributed scenes, made using a variety of cutout and paperless techniques - and were inspired by recipes they have a personal connection to.įood and family are often inextricably baked together as concepts, at least for Mollie Ong. To encourage animators to try out new tools and techniques following the release of Harmony 21, Toon Boom Animation assembled a demo pack titled The Ingredients of Animation, which features work from six artists participating in our Ambassador Program.
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