"I capture emotions - the extremes and the nuances, through characters, stories, and visual-music synched animations."

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Xueyan is a 2D frame-by-frame animator based in Xi'an, China, working with both analogue (primarily charcoal, pen, colors) and digital materials.

​They animate to tell personal stories, and visualize abstract feelings taken from the subjective and collective psyche.

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BFA

Fine Arts (Drawing), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2017

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MFA

Animation from Pratt Institute, USA, 2020.