Animated short
Written and directed by Yibing Jiang, a female filmmaker from Wuhan, China, WiNDUP portrays the connections between a father, his ailing daughter, and the healing power of music. Created using regular home-office desktop computers and Unity, this award-winning animated short film showcases what it is possible to create with real-time animation in a touching story about the fragile nature of life, love, and what it means to never give up.
International festival selection
WiNDUP has been officially selected for the following film festivals.
Team
Written & Directed by
Yibing Jiang
Producers
Aleksander Karshikoff
Silvia Rasheva
Executive Producer
Junbo Zhang
Animation Director
Jason Keane
Animators
Yining Cheng
Maria Beliaeva
Lisa Allen Keane
Alexander Fleisig
Art Director
Yibing Jiang
Cinematographer
Adam Habib
Environment Art
Shiyao Jiang
Jesus Orillan
Vegetation
Chris Kang
Character Art
Colin Thomas
Han Lin
Rigging
Victor Vinyals
Shading
Yibing Jiang
Chris Kang
Lighting Lead
Laurent Harduin
Character Lighter
Vina Kao Mahoney
FX Artist
Chris Kang
Music Composer
Joaquin Garcia
Music Production
ABHL
Audio Production
Pole Position Production
Sound Designer
Eric Thorsell
Kiki Voice
Bim Ohlsson Jinde
Father Voice
Uno Helmersson
Mattias Lech
Voice Direction
Carolina Jinde
Re-Recording Mixer
Eric Thorsell
Global Tech
Evgenii Golubev
Sebastien Lagarde
Additional art
Additional Character Art
Roja Huchez
Additional Rigging
Yining Cheng
Additional Environment Art
Jacob Norris
Additional FX
Sennett Deng
Additional Sound Editing
Max Lachmann
Story Consultant
Karl Iglesias
Edit Consultant
Mickey Adolph
James Lillard
Special thanks
Clive Downie, Joachim Ante, Bruce Straley, John Parsaie, Andrew Perez, Melissa Chou, Jason Robertson, Kiki Poh, Beibei Xiao, Jais Bredsted, Miaoyan Yang, Yanghao Gu, Göksel Göktas, Joe Pettinati, Inigo Quilez, Mathieu Muller, Dave Shreiner, Krasimir Nechevski, John Sweeney, Sylvio Drouin, Morten Mikkelsen, Zack Moratto
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Behind WiNDUP
Unity for animation and cinematics
Unity brings real-time workflows to animation content creators – speeding up traditional pipelines and giving artists, producers, and directors more opportunities for creative freedom, fast feedback, and artistic iteration on a flexible platform. With Unity, real-time production is a reality.
Real-time high-fidelity graphics
WiNDUP used the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) and Shader Graph to achieve the final look of the project, including the fabric and hair. The team also used Light Layers for the environment and character lighting, Vertex Position input to animate the leaves, and VFX Graph for the frost and floating dust.
Global collaboration
WiNDUP was a side project created by a diverse team of men and women, distributed across eight countries and working mostly from home. The team used the Subversion (SVN) version control system to manage their files, and they stayed in sync through Zoom, Slack and SyncSketch.