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Reimagining Chinese totems through hand-drawn and textile language. No Al.
📍Chicago / Guilin
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Clients: Uniqlo UTme, Heytea喜茶, Giphy Art, AIC
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It has been a year since I created the animation “The Tale of Osmanthus” for 禧象 @xiang.incense . 🌕 🌕 

✨ Happy early Mid-Autumn Festival! 🥮 🥮 

🎵Music created by the amazing musician 未来东方厂牌 @futureorient_global @terry_tianyue 🫰🫰🥳🤩

#animation #watercolor #textileanimation #handdrawnanimation #qianwenyu by @textileanimation
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25 days ago
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Some clips created in 2025, 
from reimagined traditional embroidery totems
to the Mid-Autumn folktale.

Looking forward to a new year of creation!

🎵 姚莉-送郎曲

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#qianwenyu #animation #stopmotionanimation #intangibleculturalheritage by @textileanimation
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9 months ago
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✨Pretty excited to see my artwork, painted with watercolor on fabric in Chicago home, now being sold in UNIQLO stores in China. 🥳 

🏮You can even make the embroidered pattern of my illustration in Beijing, and all the shirts are displayed in Guangzhou Uniqlo UT collection now.

🤩 It’s the first time my work feels so close to daily life, something people can actually wear.

#uniqlo #artist #textileanimation #qianwenyu #watercolor @uniqlo @uniqlo.ut taken in 北京三里屯uniqlo by @textileanimation
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8 months ago
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🏮 Beneath a thousand glowing lanterns, the fish soldier appears. 🐠 

🛘Continuing my exploration of bringing traditional Chinese shadow puppets elements into animation.

🎵:葛兰- 第二春

#textileanimation #animation #art #watercolor #qianwenyu by @textileanimation
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4 days ago
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The little monkey is on the journey to the moon palace, also pauses to enjoy the moon🌕 

Are you looking forward to the autumn ?🍂 

All are hand painted on fabric!

#textileanimation #animation #art #watercolor #qianwenyu by @textileanimation
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11 days ago
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Here is how I made the animation “The Tale of Osmanthus” for 禧象 @xiang.incense last year. ✨✨

Many hand-drawn painting with watercolor on fabric, then scan them and put them together in timeline!

🌕🌕 Happy almost Mid-Autumn Festival! 🥮 🥮 

🎵Music created by the amazing musician 未来东方厂牌 @futureorient_global @terry_tianyue 🫰🫰🥳🤩

#animation #watercolor #textileanimation #handdrawnanimation #qianwenyu by @textileanimation
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19 days ago
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🐯The lil monkey got frightened, but then he noticed that the tiger seemed to be missing something…

🛘Continuing my exploration of bringing traditional Chinese shadow puppets elements into animation.

🎵:葛兰- 河边春

#textileanimation #animation #art #watercolor #qianwenyu by @textileanimation
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a month ago
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🐯A very angry tiger suddenly came out of the mountains.

🛘Continuing my exploration of bringing traditional Chinese shadow puppets elements into animation.

🎵:葛兰- 河边春

#textileanimation #animation #art #watercolor #qianwenyu by @textileanimation
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a month ago
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🏮Zhongyuan Festival (中元节), also known as the Ghost Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival that the people imagine and remember the world beyond our own.

🌟Continuing my exploration of bringing traditional Chinese cultural elements into animation, this time I’m starting with the glow of a lantern on Zhongyuan Festival night.

🎵:姚莉-小放牛

#textileanimation #animation #stopmotionanimation #qianwenyu #traditionalart by @textileanimation
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2 months ago
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This time, the little monkey passed by the Night Pearl Lantern that had transformed from Lotus Leaf Mountain.🏮

I’ve been experimenting with bringing the visual language of Chinese shadow puppetry into my own animation, exploring how this traditional art form might take on a new life through contemporary animation.🌸

🎵: Grace Chang - 竹舞

#textileanimation #art #watercolor #qianwenyu #animation by @textileanimation
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2 months ago
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🪷🐒The little monkey continued on, crossing a sea of lotus leaves, with tall leaves and blooming lotuses around him.🪻🪷

I’ve been experimenting with bringing the visual language of Chinese shadow puppetry into my own animation, exploring how this traditional art form might take on a new life through contemporary animation.

🎵: Rebecca Pan- Never on Sunday

#textileanimation #animation #art #qianwenyu #watercolor by @textileanimation
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2 months ago
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Into Lotus Mountain 🌸🐒

This little monkey has wandered into a place of lotus leaf shaped mountains. 🌸 Where will he go next?

I’ve been experimenting with bringing the visual language of Chinese shadow puppetry into my own animation, exploring how this traditional art form might take on a new life through contemporary animation.

🎵: Rebecca Pan-茶花女

#textileanimation #animation #art #qianwenyu #watercolor by @textileanimation
5
2 months ago
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