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Judy Zhao

@bullwarts

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artist and animator 🫧 .ೃ࿔
los angeles and virginia
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Foolish pigeon is given purpose and clarity.

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Coming to Within the FRAME this fall ✨

By Yann Carrillo @itscampana , Phoenix Park @phxon , Judy Zhao @bullwarts & Damien Ruiz @damiefilm

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We’re excited to show this film!

My Beautiful Tiger - Directed by Judy Zhao

Judy Zhao is a Chinese American artist and animator based in Los Angeles. She works in digital and physical animation, printmaking, and installation. My Beautiful Tiger is an ink-on-paper film about a young child painting a tiger into a woman. @bullwarts

Judy’s film will be screened on Saturday the 12th of September at our mini animation festival in collaboration with @zinezilla_bristol at @bristoltrinity more information in our bio.

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Os laços que criamos, e aqueles dos quais tentamos nos libertar, também nos transformam 🧶

Na Mostra Competitiva Estudantil do ANIMAGE 2026, jovens realizadores de diferentes partes do mundo exploram relações familiares, medos, traumas, identidade e transformação em filmes que revelam a força e a diversidade da nova geração da animação.

Assista no Festival ANIMAGE 2026
🎬 Mostra Competitiva Estudantil
📅 20 a 29 de novembro
📍 Recife
🎟️ Gratuito
A programação completa será divulgada em breve

Patrocínio master da @Petrobras por meio da Lei Rouanet e incentivo do Funcultura. Idealização e produção da Rec-Beat Produções e Leão Produções.

#PetrobrasCultural #culturagovbr #animage2026

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The bonds we form, and those we try to break free from, shape us too.
In the ANIMAGE 2026 Student Competitive Screening, young filmmakers from around the world explore family relationships, fears, trauma, identity, and transformation, revealing the strength and diversity of a new generation of animation.

Watch at ANIMAGE Festival 2026
Student Competitive Screening
November 20-29
Recife
Free admission
The full program will be announced soon

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the great american road trip!

1. slice of sour dough between my teeth as we begin our drive eastward
2. double rainbow in colorado
3. took a swim
4. van life with zia + pippin
5. judy sock tan
6. city museum in st. louis where my car battery died
7. that good good virginia green
8. visited the lake my parent's wedding reception was held in ohio wearing a buc-ee's shirt
9. september 19, 1999; me n my sister
10. the bugs are loud!
11. home for now 🩷

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IT IS OUR HONOR TO PRESENT…THE OFFICIAL BOUQUET FOR WGFF 2026!! ༘⋆✿⋆˚꩜｡

This year, we received 217 films (more than triple last year’s submission total)… crazy :0 It took days upon days and tens of hours of review to make these decisions ↻ ◁ || ▷ ↺. You lovely artists don’t make it easy - the level of talent in this submission batch was unbelievable ꩜_꩜

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FILMS THAT WERE ACCEPTED, LOVE TO EVERYONE THAT SUBMITTED - KEEP CREATING BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING ART ˖᯽ ݁˖

TICKETS FOR WGFF ‘26 ARE LIVE NOW!! :p
SUPPORT LOCAL ART <3
REAL HUMAN ART (°u°)
wgfilmfest.com

Edited by SPENSE (@greenskinnded)
Music by SPENSE (@greenskinnded)

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thnx for having me

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july was fly 🪶

ft. eric wesley piece at hammer museum

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11:11 (boyacá time)

featuring artists from the 2026 Render Me Softly screenings ˙⋆✮⋆˚࿔

today: @bullwarts (Judy Zhao)

Judy was featured in The Body as a Site for Tenderness screening with her film Rebel Without a Cause.

Judy Zhao is an artist and animator based in Los Angeles. Her work explores how intersections of digital spaces and gender, femininity, and intimacy construct feelings of physical and psychological separations. She uses digital and physical animation, printmaking, and installation to construct the ephemeral, yet ever-persistent importance of interpersonal care. Her films have been included in the Philly Animation Festival, Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival, Lei Gallery, and A Space Gallery.

Rebel Without a Cause (2025) is a 2:25 min experimental 3D animated film about the weightless dance between the two liquid bodies within a web-like cage.

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I love experimental animation! Combining the digital and tangible with the moving image is so much fun and yields endless possibilities of awesomeness.

In a society where natural fluidity is restricted by a culturally and politically conservative framework, it is important to embrace unabashed tenderness and care. Transformation of the self and community is an effervescent constant that is intertwined with everyday life.

I’m currently working on a film about the tropicalization of California’s coast :)

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Spent a week on a rock in the ocean visualizing science and other adventures things with friends and local animals ✨

Thank you @uscexpandedanimation @uscwrigley for this amazing opportunity 🙏🏽

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#FlashbackFriday to our CTXA 547 #Foley and #ADR session a few weeks ago!

Our XA MFA 1s are working hard to finish their Production 1 short films, and they’ll be showcasing their films on Tuesday, May 12th at 5pm in SCB 104.

Join us for the extinction burst of CTXA 547 as we screen 11 animated film from some of the best animators in their first year of XA.

#ExpandedAnimation #Production1 ExtinctionBurst

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Join us next Tuesday, May 12 at 5pm in SCB 104 for the extinction burst of CTXA 547!

We’ll be screening 11 animated films from some of the brightest animators in their first and final year of XA. For some, it’s their last year at USC, so join us to celebrate their visionary works!

#ExpandedAnimation #Production1 #StudentFilms #Animation

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𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓸𝓭𝔂 𝓪𝓼 𝓪 𝓢𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓣𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼 highlights films centering the body as a journey of acceptance, love, desire, becoming, and transformation.

This curation is one of two screenings happening this Sunday at 6 pm at @lakeaffectstudios 💗

Featuring films by:
Lexy Ho-Tai
Alexis Taylor Hurbult & Kalli Brown @goldiegoat @kallibrownn
Judy Zhao @bullwarts
Sam Gurry @slamgurry
Joey Liu @mojoscribble
Naomi Kuropatwa @cephalop0ds
Annie Chrissy Burley @art_chrissy
Ash Bayer @ashbayerart
Oona Taper @oonataper
Luca Isa Trujillo @luca.isa.trujillo

This screening is part of Render Me Softly, a pop-up animation festival in Cleveland, OH. Organized by Laura Camila Medina and supported through SPACES’ Satellite Fund and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the festival highlights themes of tenderness, transformation, and becoming through free screenings, workshops, and dialogue.

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