Jiahe Liu is working towards becoming an animation director.
Previous to his MA, he learned theater lighting design at Whitman College, and he knows how to use light to convey mood and to create the sense of space for film, animation or performance. During his study at college, he worked a lot with installations and sculptures, and he learned how to use and transform the space. Jiahe has an aptitude for animation and visual arts that use actual materials; he experimented with sand, puppets and paper puppets.
Jiahe likes engaging with live-action and dancing as the ways to generate ideas. In his spare, he enjoys photography, gardening and watching dancing performances. For his creative process, he’s always trying to find a rhythm for the film in the first place, then collecting all sorts of materials by research to build his own solid concept.