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- [Wong Ping] Growing up in a city like Hong Kong,
we all live in a high-rise building.
We're inside a box.
(people chattering)
Living in a big city,
it creates certain amount of isolation.
I always wonder how people engage to each other.
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15 years ago, that was when I started to make animation.
So, I have a day job in a broadcast station in Hong Kong.
I feel so trapped, depressed,
so I found that my mind fly away when I was at work.
So I started to think about scenario
or funny situations, random stuff,
and I would write it in a blog back home.
One day, I opened the software,
and then I tried to just drawing color shape,
and then I feel really good about it.
And then I found out, oh, I can create animation
I couldn't believe.
I think that was the click.
I have the urge to create.
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Animation as a media give me the freedom.
It's almost like a candy wrapping paper for people.
Just easier to swallow.
(door closing)
(foreign language)
I can say more terrible stuff.
Or evil thinking.
I can even like put more personal stuff there.
So this one is basically talk about,
like Elephant become a monk
because she couldn't find dates,
she hates her single eyelid.
But since K-pop is popular now, it's like a trend.
But she already did the surgery for double eyelid.
So that was like a lesson I want to give,
like you're ugly at this time
but in different time, you'll be the trend.
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In the fables, I try to do everything in one frame
to tell a story without any transitional editing,
no scenes cut.
I try to use this as a new challenge to myself.
(foreign language)
The scenario is just like a container.
I can pretty much use any scenario
to make this hundred observation fit in this storyline.
I think just in general,
I need material or story.
Events, accident, chaotic situation on the street.
By the time I really have to write solid story,
I would just look back.
The one thing I feel difficult to write during the pandemic,
is that I don't find differences in people across the world.
I feel like I lost the power of writing.
Where's the differences?
During the pandemic,
everyone using Zoom a lot.
I think maybe I can just use Zoom to make a mockumentary.
I'm more interested in stepping on the line
rather than crossing it,
because stepping on it is more provoking.
I create this legendary figure,
the quickest man who can make panda hard.
I think it's the toughest job because they want to extinct.
They don't want to have baby anymore.
They don't enjoy orgasm.
So this was in my head.
I have to make a laboratory to do that.
In my work,
there's quite a lot of erotic or sexual elements.
That was only my container.
That's not the topic I want to tell.
Why I enjoy and explore desire quite often
is because we have to make choice.
In bed, people can be more honest
to review the other side of themselves.
We are facing our true selves more than ever.
Look at that one.
This.
So smooth.
Wow, wow, wow.
Poor lobster.
See, they're fighting.
I just need someone to bring up questions,
'cause question can bring me to different places.
Because of Covid,
I realized more that I need strangers conversation.
When I work alone in the studio,
I kind of feeling like I was trapped.
I have to force myself to find inspiration.
I want the inspiration to bump into me, like come to me.
I think maybe I can just try to have like a small shop
and just put myself out there.
I don't even want to put the price tag on each thing,
so I force the people to talk to me.
It's like forcing them to give me inspiration.
Right next to this crazy cat lady.
This is a cute one though.
So that's pretty much me this month,
unpacking, moving.
I haven't started yet
but I feel excited to write a story for each item.
I don't have to put so much effort to look for inspiration
but now the inspiration is, every day it's out there.
Look at this arm.
I like it.
It's almost like dancing with this guy.
I love it.
I'm looking forward.
Since I only settle for like few weeks.
Everything is in the name of making better work.
I think.
I hope.
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