Soft Transformation

AI Gen, Film

Year

'26

Role

Art Direction, Motion, DOP

Type

Classroom

Developed in collaboration with ByteDance, the project reinterprets everyday rituals using natural and new materials. It blends heritage with modern digital visualization, creating a dynamic exploration of change, perception, and personal experience.

© Soft Transformation

Key Contributions

Created the motion essence of the video. Set up lighting and camera angles during the filming. Was involved in storyboarding.

Concept

Soft Transformations captures the process of tea making through a contemporary lens, focusing on how dried tea leaves and flowers shift in form, color, and temperature as they brew. While tea traditions are deeply rooted in different cultures, this project reinterprets the process using natural and new materials to create hybrid tea mixtures, thereby establishing a dialogue between heritage and modernity. By bridging heritage and modernity, the work encourages viewers to engage with both the material process and the internal states it inspires.