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  Aliens in the Yard  
May 2026
Emi (4) and her mother visit Aunt Janice and Cousin Ming-Ming in Rowland Heights, LA, where where aliens make a visit to their backyard.  (An excerpt from a larger story - from the prompt to create a 2-minute animatic of a personal memory.)











Pajin  
July 2024
A university student admist making a decision encounters a playful dog.


Thumbnails and sketches



Backpack Rat
December 2024
A memory about my Aunt Liz

       
    Live pitch








 


Second Chance
August 2024
A girl from small-town Nebraska tries to start a band of her own.






Storyboard Exercises (Andy Cung Intermediate Storyboard Class)
June-July 2025
An exercise produced from Andy Cung’s summer storyboarding class, where students learned the fundamentals of editing and sequential storytelling, and applied it to the interpretation and boarding of a script applying knowledge of multicam and POV. "

  Pitch




New Year
2026
A unseen threat attacks a rural village in the China. Based off of the tale of “Nian.”