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Born in Taiwan, Wu-Ching Chang is an animation director who earned MA. Animation at the Royal College of Art in the UK and BFA in New Media Art at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. She is the founder of Aco Creative Ltd. She has worked on commercial and independent animation, illustration, and game concept art since 2014. Most prestigious clients include Channel Four, Tiger Party New York, Velvet Wolf Films, Taiwan Public Television, etc.

Her films approach multiple issues of females, modernity, and humanistic views. Her films are often based on cultural context through focused interviews. Except for 2D animation with hand-painted texture, her films contain multiple experimental practices, such as animating with eggs. Through visual art, she tells stories about life.

Her animated short films were screened at festivals around the world. Her film ' My Grandmother Is an Egg' won Jury Special Mention Award at Atlanta Film Festival and Women Make Waves Film Festival and was officially selected at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Animafest Zagreb, Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, SIGGRAPH Asia, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, and Guanajuato International Film Festival, etc. The film was screened at Ars Electronica, Garden Taipei Formosa in 2021. Her film ‘Hello to Me in 100 Years’ was officially selected at BFI London Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. Her film 'Bird' was officially selected at Norwich Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Bengaluru International Short Film Festival, Spark Animation Festival, etc.

In recent years, she works as the Adjunct Assistant Professor Rank Specialist in the program of Communication Design at Shih Chien University and the guest speaker at Pennsylvania State University. Besides, she worked as the judge of animation at the Happy Valley Animation Fest, and the Taiwan International Student Design Competition, and as a consultant at Think Tank for Taiwan Cultural Policy.