Natalia Villarreal is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, photographer and animator from Mexico City with a background in visual communication.
She questions the human experience, set in the liminal space of consciousness, considering it a fundamental mystery that must be explored collectively through any form of art. She approaches themes like death, afterlife, cotidianity and nostalgia with a psychedelic and sometimes absurd lens that she defines as “dreamcore”.
Mainly focusing on analog materials, she plays with the possibility of mistake and improvisation that can lead to a rooted graphic style and deeper meaning.
Artworks:
1. Pinnie Winnie, micro stop-motion
2. Mool, acrylic on canvas
3. Gouache animation tests
4. Solarized Cats, 35mm solarized film
5. Carousel test, micro stop-motion
6. Deidad, album cover for Gaspar Grueso
7. Me Come, ink and acrylic on canvas
Bob Shi is a whimsical animator and illustrator exploring the deconstruction of reality through narrative-rich imagery. His work reconstructs familiar scenes into fragmented, often disquieting compositions that blur the line between the real and the imagined.
Engaging with darker and more introspective themes, he examines perception, emotional undercurrents, and the instability of lived experience. His practice embraces ambiguity, leaving space for quiet tension and open-ended interpretation.
Hi, I’m Huang Shiyu, an artist working between animation and illustration.
My ideas usually come from my own feelings - small, quiet ones that are hard to explain.
I like noticing and capturing vague, in-between moments, like subtle changes in mood or feeling. I try to understand them in my own way and turn them into images.
I’m also really into dreams, especially the feeling between being awake and dreaming. Since I was young, I’ve always imagined other worlds—what they might look like, what kinds of creatures might exist there. That curiosity still shapes what I make.
I’m interested in boundaries and how things are connected. I feel like everything is linked in small, almost invisible ways, and I like trying to notice and record those connections.
In a way, I just see myself as someone who pays attention to feelings, and tries to keep them.
Rune is a stop motion animator and director, with experience in graphic design and art direction.
He focuses on narrative cinema, exploring relational tensions between characters in externalized and evocative worlds. On a technical level, he designs and builds his own sets and puppets, often trying to achieve a baroque and macabre, but also slightly humorous atmosphere within his films. He experiments with different techniques to add emotionality to these worlds. Themes surrounding art history, decadence and classical music feature frequently in his work.
Given works:
1. Scenes from Her Worm, stop motion (2026)
2. Scenes form The Masque of the Red Death, stop motion (2024)
3. Scenes from AQUARIUM and La Danse Macabre, stop motion, mixed media (2023)
4. Scenes from Prelude, oil on glass (2020)
5. Abbey Ruins, ink on paper (2025)
#WORMCREW🪱
=> GoFundMe - link in bio
𝓢𝔂𝓷𝓸𝓹𝓼𝓲𝓼: Inside a dark, brown living room in 1970s Flanders, a housewife seeks comfort in a peculiar and personal specimen given to her by her husband, the local doctor. With newfound confidence and the specimen - her own discarded tapeworm - as a friend, she thinks of a way out of her unhappy marriage. When her husband’s jealousy takes a turn for the worst, she plots revenge and escapes her repressive household.
Her Worm is an absurd, but sincere stop-motion fable, based upon a bizarre, but true family anecdote. This film is for everyone who enjoys weird, but beautiful little stories, told with the fascinating and tactile medium of stop motion.
𝓖𝓸𝓕𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓜𝓮: Much effort and craftmanship goes into stop motion animation, bringing to life wondrous, but physical worlds. It’s a magical craft, but the journey to get it on screen takes not only time and effort, but also hours of work and resoures.
In this day and age, those resources have become increasingly expensive and any and all contribution would make a difference and help us bring this fantastic project to life.
All donations through GoFundMe will go towards the cost of materials for sets, props, costumes and puppets, as well as funding festival distribution and outside resources to bring this heartfelt project to as large an audience as possible.
@royalcollegeofart@rcaanimation@mieau.rca@guychackarovdp
Micro and macro.
Moving frame by frame a tiny drop of water that floats around what is revealed under the light. ✨💧✨🎞️
Literal, metaphorical.
The moon always watching over me.
My yellow fluffy neighbour . 🐈
Anything is possible. Have you heard about the Polaroid ghost✨👻✨? I repeat to my self the message. Why not? Isn’t it that the game I’ve been playing and has been working out...
Anger. That feeling that I had forgotten how it felt. Revisiting that feeling was an interesting experience.
Love my ✨🚲 ✨and the places she takes me to.
Some you loose, but know I know.
Sometimes, although winter is gone, I use my puffy jacket when I need a hug.
Unforgettable nights.
Take a distance. Look where you are. Loose the doubts.
Shadow walking with ducks.
#stopmotion
Almog Gressel is an animator and director with a background in live action filmmaking and motion design. He works primarily in a 2d frame by frame approach that lends a realistic look to his animation. His work, focuses on externalizing the internal reality of his characters into the psychological landscapes that they inhabit, exploring themes of isolation and group mentality.
Given works:
1. Style frames from Wōtan (2026)
2-3. The Fish Hook Elegy (2025)
4. Resignation Letter (2024)
5. Practice as Reaserch Poster (2025)
ℋ𝑒𝓇 𝒲𝑜𝓇𝓂 - RCA Graduation Film📽
✨GoFundMe - link in bio✨
𝓢𝔂𝓷𝓸𝓹𝓼𝓲𝓼: Inside a dark, brown living room in 1970s Flanders, a housewife seeks comfort in a peculiar and personal specimen given to her by her husband, the local doctor. With newfound confidence and the specimen - her own discarded tapeworm - as a friend, she thinks of a way out of her unhappy marriage. When her husband’s jealousy takes a turn for the worst, she plots revenge and escapes her repressive household.
Her Worm is an absurd, but sincere stop-motion fable, based upon a bizarre, but true family anecdote. This film is for everyone who enjoys weird, but beautiful little stories, told with the fascinating and tactile medium of stop motion.
𝓖𝓸𝓕𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓜𝓮: Much effort and craftmanship goes into stop motion animation, bringing to life wondrous, but physical worlds. It's a magical craft, but the journey to get it on screen takes not only time and effort, but also hours of work and resoures.
In this day and age, those resources have become increasingly expensive and any and all contribution would make a difference and help us bring this fantastic project to life.
All donations through GoFundMe will go towards the cost of materials for sets, props, costumes and puppets, as well as funding festival distribution and outside resources to bring this heartfelt project to as large an audience as possible.
@royalcollegeofart@rcaanimation@mieau.rca@guychackarovdp
Jinxuan Jiang is an animator and painter exploring themes of nature, connection, the self, and life, with a focus on their in-between states.
Her practice is an ongoing search for a personal language to express these complexities.
Cemre Beyza Yağız is an animator and illustrator with a background in graphic design. She likes to work with tactile methods, building simple poetic structures through an intuitive approach.
Her work explores childhood, repetition, memory, and culture. She often finds ideas through naivety, coincidence and imperfection.
She usually begins with a single mark and develops it to see where it leads. Her practice is shaped by language, texture, and material with a focus on the sensory side of making.
Given Works:
1. Zoetrope plate for Across RCA
2. Night Tube (Embodying Voice Project)
3. Style Frame Test for “Nereye Kayboldu Kedi”
4. Storyboard Sketches for “Nereye Kayboldu Kedi”
5. Cutout Animation test on multiplane
6. Poster design for @mieau.rca
Leyang Zhang is an animator who enjoys working with new materials and approaches to express her ideas. Her work often explores themes through metaphor, creating a subtle and dreamlike atmosphere.
