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Asians in Animation (AIA) launched its new Animation Industry Production Training Program called the Asians in Animation Immersive Lab, designed to equip early and emerging Asian animation professionals with the skills and experience needed to thrive in the professional animation industry.
Through hands-on workshops and industry production pipeline exposure, participants gain a comprehensive understanding of the latest animation industry hot topics and how to sustain an ever-evolving career in creativity.
Through hands-on workshops and industry production pipeline exposure, participants gain a comprehensive understanding of the latest animation industry hot topics and how to sustain an ever-evolving career in creativity.
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Visit this page to meet the 2024 Production Program Crew.
To kick off the inaugural lab, we partnered with the creative leadership of Netflix Animation’s ULTRAMAN: RISING to prepare talent to thrive and advance in studio feature film animation. These talks were open to the public to increase accessibility to artistic training, mentorship, and typically guarded information within the animation industry.
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AIA welcomed its first lab cohort of 41 mentees.
With the ability to work with the top emerging talent of Asians in Animation, participants had nine days to produce a short film alongside a full production crew of emerging industry leaders and 14 industry mentors who have worked across game-changing studios, such as Pixar, Skydance Animation, Lucasfilm Animation and more.
As of December 2024, the lab cohort’s labor of love has now been crowned an award-winning short film. Our sweet Southeast Asian story is still making its rounds in the festival circuit. We look forward to sharing more about LITTLE PERSIMMON in 2025!
With the ability to work with the top emerging talent of Asians in Animation, participants had nine days to produce a short film alongside a full production crew of emerging industry leaders and 14 industry mentors who have worked across game-changing studios, such as Pixar, Skydance Animation, Lucasfilm Animation and more.
As of December 2024, the lab cohort’s labor of love has now been crowned an award-winning short film. Our sweet Southeast Asian story is still making its rounds in the festival circuit. We look forward to sharing more about LITTLE PERSIMMON in 2025!
Mentors
Our production was graciously supported by mentors from the following studios:
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Our mentors supported our lab participants and leaders before and throughout production, bringing hundreds of years of combined studio knowledge to our filmmakers. Their infectious encouragement, endless support, and thoughtful guidance fueled our crew’s creativity while setting realistic production expectations to immerse our participants in the “traditional” collaborative animation studio pipeline.
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Producer
Tracy Liu Head of Story Ivan Gozali Production Designer Yusra Shahid Character Designer Florence Young Head of Animation Thy Vo Editor Noël Wiggins Production Management Brian Tran Morgan Eng |
Story Art
Dasom Park Eri Ling Qianhe Sun Stella Chen Amelia Kim Mercury Gullermo Visual Development Hannah Jin Young Kim Nicholas Piña Erica Lee Angela Yena Kim Alice Li Vy-Kim Nguyen Lindsey Tamayo Nina Chung Genna Davis Jess Lin Vanessa Nguyen Meeti Patel |
Animation
Nina Chen Michelle Zheng Angelina Retodo Dean Tammachat Justin Ni Yufei Xiao Kevin Chiu Christopher Lee Inaya Sher Mikey Cao Fiona Retaa Amanda Pung Sound Mix Joshua Kok Assistant Editor Kevin Horkaew Composer Justin Duong |
Animation Industry Immersive Lab Team
Production Program Team
Producer - Katie Dizon
Coordinators - Prajakta More, Theresa Kao, Kyle Powell
Workshops Team
Producer - Sophia Whalen
Coordinators - Schantelle Alonzo, Lin Jin
Overhead Leadership Team
President - Lexie Chu
Executive Director - Andrea Kutcher
Managing Director - Dani Yuan
Managing Director - Katie Dizon
Special Thanks
Saira Umar, Alice Jiang, Michelle Honeyman, Sara Marigomen, Sarah Liu, Sude Kurban, Abigail Setera, Karina Zhou, Vivian Le, Bethany Tong, Grace Dennin, Benjamin Arnold, Gaby de la Cruz, Clair Huang, Bianca Bancolita, Kaitlyn Chen, Katrina Aruta, Ashely Wang, May Lee, Clara Hao, Domi Watkins
Producer - Katie Dizon
Coordinators - Prajakta More, Theresa Kao, Kyle Powell
Workshops Team
Producer - Sophia Whalen
Coordinators - Schantelle Alonzo, Lin Jin
Overhead Leadership Team
President - Lexie Chu
Executive Director - Andrea Kutcher
Managing Director - Dani Yuan
Managing Director - Katie Dizon
Special Thanks
Saira Umar, Alice Jiang, Michelle Honeyman, Sara Marigomen, Sarah Liu, Sude Kurban, Abigail Setera, Karina Zhou, Vivian Le, Bethany Tong, Grace Dennin, Benjamin Arnold, Gaby de la Cruz, Clair Huang, Bianca Bancolita, Kaitlyn Chen, Katrina Aruta, Ashely Wang, May Lee, Clara Hao, Domi Watkins
