Mingyun Cao

I am a digital artist based in London, I enjoy working with various media.

Strangeness

This is an artwork centered on my subconscious misperception of how the urban landscape is perceived, and I aim to express this fractured perception error and “strange” perception. I hope to create a sensation that evokes a sense of familiarity and strangeness, so that the viewer can spontaneously become more aware of the urban landscape that they live and work in every day.

This is one of the broken landscapes images, the pieces came from my photography.
This is one of the broken landscapes images, the pieces came from my photography.
This is one of the broken landscapes images, the pieces came from my photography.
This is one of the broken landscapes images, the pieces came from my photography.
This is the final outcome of my Lens project: “Strangeness” – an animation of two 2D moving image clips. By reconstructing the common structures and textures of the city, together with the distorted landscape of the subconscious.

Body Dance

I tried to reshape the ritual dance, I wanted to bring some liveliness and modernity to the piece rather than the traditional ritualism. I twisted the human body into a frenetic, surreal dance, the finished piece essentially conveys my view of the communal nature of ritual dance.

A scene from the video.
A scene from the video.
I used simple character objects as the main characters because of the personal sacrifice to subjectivity that reflects ritualistic dance. I rigged and plotted the dance to the music, and I managed to bring some liveliness and modernity to the piece (free character mesh).