‘Tea leaves last’ (aia p4, 2025)

Story artist for a pilot animatic for Asians in Animation, directed by Saira Umar and Lynn Park. An eight-month immersive lab that mirrors the structure of a traditional animation studio for the production of a 44-minute animatic.

The pilot follows a young outsider named Mya who leaves her historic family farm to revitalize forgotten ceremonial tea magic and fight back against an encroaching colonizing force.

‘Miss Saigon’ (Personal Project, 2023)

1970s Saigon, Vietnam- after making a strong connection with a soldier, Kim builds up the courage to search to find him again.

Reworking the stage musical ‘Miss Saigon’ as if it were to be made as an animated feature.

IP credit: Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil. based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madame Butterfly.

‘Kilig!’ (Thesis Project, 2022)

A young Filipino-American girl and her mother visit her mother’s hometown in Palawan, Philippines, and let each other into their worlds. She finds out that there is magic in the islands!

Kilig is a word in Tagalog that describes a feeling of exhilaration or elation caused by an exciting or romantic experience, and also the title of my Thesis film!