Jaime Sunwoo
Collaborations in animation, 3D environments, visual effects and design.
Design & Collaboration / 2021–2025
Color Theory
3D environments, animation & visual effects
Film by Jaime Sunwoo
Color Theory is a short film by Jaime Sunwoo that turns a fictional lecture, assembled from artists’ and architects’ words, into an inquiry into how ideas about color shape our understanding of race.
My contribution
Working with footage shot largely in a green-screen studio with a small cast, I created animated assets, 3D backgrounds and environments, and digital audiences that expanded the scale of the film. My work included detailed rotoscoping, keying, compositing, visual effects, color correction, and video editing, bringing the filmed performances and constructed elements into a shared visual world.
Contribution: 3D environments and animated assets · Digital audiences · Rotoscoping and keying · Compositing and VFX · Color correction and video editing
Tools: Blender and After Effects
A 26-second selection of finished scenes featuring digital audiences, constructed environments, and the animated flower effect. Silent showcase from Color Theory, a film by Jaime Sunwoo.
Selected frames
Bedouin Scene — a 15-second environment study moving from the rendered room through its 3D construction to the finished composite.
Earlier cut / Final
From green-screen performances to constructed environments and digital audiences: six examples show how the scenes developed through compositing and visual effects.
Earlier cut on the left; final image on the right. The earlier screener already contains editing and some effects. Its embedded timecode is retained; framing and timing may vary slightly between versions.
Film credits
Written and directed by Jaime Sunwoo. Producers: Zach Bell and Jaime Sunwoo. Editor: Weiyang Li. Director of photography: Matthew Halla. Composer and sound designer: Matt Chilton. Colorist: Laura Conte. VFX artist: Kevin Cobb.
Miracle Meat
Animation & label design
For Specially Processed American Me by Jaime Sunwoo
Specially Processed American Me is a surreal autobiographical performance that uses SPAM to explore Jaime Sunwoo’s Asian American upbringing, her family’s experiences of the Korean War, and the food’s military and cultural history across the Asia-Pacific.
My contribution
I created the Miracle Meat animation and designed its label for the production. The images below show the label, the rendered can and the design within a live performance.
Project context
The performance brings together music, shadowplay and cooking, moving between absurd humor and personal history.
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