Watermelon: A Cautionary Tale

Kefei Li is an animator and illustrator from in Beijing China. She is a recent graduate from Ringling College of Art& Design who specializes in 3D animation and visual development. She inspired by every little thing in life, finding interesting element from the ordinary thing and represents it in a different perspective.
Kefei believes that animation is an art form that connects with the audience no matter their race or nationality. Everyone is able to understand animation without barriers which allows you to create a more powerful and deeper influences than any other art form. She believed that animation is an ideal way to make complicated ideas easier to understand for both adults and children. As a visual medium, it sticks in the memory really well and is a brilliant way to grab people’s attention, it can show something that doesn’t yet exist, the inner workings of things, express abstract concepts and fly around space and time to link together ideas.
Kefei Li is highly interested in working for independent animation studio. She is looking forward to work with talented people to create fun material that will entertainment people. In the meantime Kefei will continue to keep her animation skills at their peak performance by working on numerous freelance projects.

Connie Qin He is a story artist and 3D generalist who was born in Shanghai, China. She graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018 majoring in Computer Animation. Connie is very devoted to story development for animation where her goal is to touch the audiences’ hearts by creating relatable and appealing characters.
“In animation, everyone can create a world.” said by one of Connie’s favorite comic artist. Connie grew up watching a variety of animations that brought her different views to look at the world. She believes every character and every story incorporates a dream and consciousness from the author. Her dream is to one day she can create a story that can influenced the audience just like those many great works that influenced her.
Connie discovered Ringling College of Art and Design by attending National Portfolio Day. The most attractive thing that led her to Ringling is that each student got to create a film in their final year. During her four years at Ringling College of Art and Design, she learned the complete pipeline for making 3D animation and created a senior thesis film in a 2 person team.