The Sick Rose

The Sick Rose is an immersive animated film featuring the unprecedented combination of stop-motion animation and the traditional Taiwanese dough-figure craftsmanship. The story takes place in a time of raging pandemic. Rose, a sick little girl, is going to travel through a city filled with viruses and indifference, just to dedicate a magical rose to her mother who is courageously guarding lives in the front-line hospital.

While the story resonates deeply with everyone under the current pandemic, the cross-over between the beauty of Taiwan’s traditional craftsmanship and the high-end 8K S3D macro-photography is also a huge highlight. Through this work, the production team not only aims to showcase a brand-new experience of immersive dough-figure animation, but also wants to show the irreplaceable value combining Taiwan’s traditional handicraft with innovative technology.

HOW TO ACCESS THE EXPERIENCE

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You will need a VR ready PC and an HTC Vive/Vive Pro/Vive Cosmos, Oculus Rift/Rift S, Valve Index or Windows Mixed Reality headset. You will be able to access the experience on Viveport.

ABOUT THE CREATORS

TANG ZHI-ZHONG is an animation and post-production director as well as the representative of TurnRhino Original Design Studio. “The Sick Rose” is his directorial debut. Tang was the head of animation and post-production for the animation "Bart," a 2-years production aimed to achieve international standards of commercial animation. He continued to produce and served as the head of animation for stop-motion animation shorts, such as "Where Am I Going?" and "Little Hilly."

HUANG YUN-HSIEN is an animation director at TurnRhino Original Design Studio and the director of "Bart," "Where Am I Going? "and "Little Hilly." She is a professional traditional dough sculpture handicraft maker and started as a child. In addition to making traditional models, she enjoys creating original peculiar characters with stories and personalities. She started stop-motion in 2009 and is devoted to introducing Taiwanese cultural aesthetics into stop-motion animation.

CREDITS

Directors: Huang Yun-Hsien and Tang Zhi-Zhong

Executive Producer: Cher Wang

Producers: Liu Szu-Ming and Jack Huang

Screenplay: Huang Yun-Hsien and Tang Zhi-Zhong

Cinematographer: Jack Huang

Gaffer: Ian Ku

Editor: Tang Zhi-Zhong

Art Director: Huang Yun-Hsien

Technical Director: Anferne Chen

Animation Director: Yu Yu

Production Coordinators: Liu Chi-Shan and Irene Chung

Music: Jérôme Rebotier

Music Supervisor: Liu Szu-Ming

Sound Design Supervisor: Kao Chin-Lun

Interactive VR narrative | Runtime: 17 mins | Platform: Viveport | Compatible headsets: HTC Vive/Pro/Pro 2, Oculus Rift/Rift S, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality.

Award nomination: Best Narrative Experience