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Mo Yuan
Animation MA

Royal College of Art

Graduates: 2023

Specialisms: Animation / Film & Animation / Cartoon & Comic Art

My location: London, United Kingdom

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Royal College of Art

Mo Yuan

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First Name: Mo

Last Name: Yuan

University / College: Royal College of Art

Course / Program: Animation MA

Graduates: 2023

Specialisms: Animation / Film & Animation / Cartoon & Comic Art

My Location: London, United Kingdom

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About

Mocong ‘Mo’ Yuan is an animator and visual development artist based in London. She received her Master of Arts degree in Experimental Animation at the Royal College of Art. Mo received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts, New York City, in 2019 with Honours in 2D Animation. Her bachelor’s degree film Cosmos Express (2019) was made an official selection in several international film and animation festivals, including London International Animation Festival, Raindance Film Festival and National Film Festival for Talented Youth. The film evoked discourse over mental health issues and was a part of the Flyway Mental Health and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. It received a prize for Character-based Animation Short at Los Angeles Animation Festival, and was nominated for Best Character Design at Beijing Film Academy Animation Awards. Her first-year film at the Royal College of Art, Catastrophe (2022), has been shortlisted for BFI Future Film Festival in 2023.

A woman’s life has been turned upside down ever since she noticed those strange floating strings in her sight. Floaters is a personal and fantastical interpretation of living with posterior vitreous detachment, known as floaters in the eyes. The subject matter serves as a self-reflecting discussion over the transient balance when conventional pain nurtures your creativity, as well as the dilemma of whether to embrace your difference or to assimilate.