About the Director
Tina T. Hsu was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She grew up reading comics and watching animation and was a child who loved drawing and making things. She moved to the US at age 14 and attended high school in Northern California, and continued to UCLA to study design/media arts.
In her senior year at the undergrad program in UCLA, she had the chance to take an introduction class to traditional 2D Animation with the UCLA Animation Workshop, which she enjoyed immensely. The experience planted the seed that led to her further study in 2D animation.
In 2009, Tina enrolled in the 2D Character Animation MFA
program at the Academy of Art University under Sherrie H. Sinclair. And this is where “LADY and the frog” was born.
Tina currently works as a 2D/Stop motion animator/fabricator for various studios in the Portland, Oregon area while developing her next personal projects on the side.
To see more of her work, please go to http://tinathsu.blogspot.com
About the Film
Writer/Director: Tina T. Hsu
Genre: 2D Animation
Length: 03.12
Language: English
Country: U.S.A.
Completion date: April 2014
Written, Produced and Directed by Tina T. Hsu
Project Supervisor: Sherrie H. Sinclair
Music/Sound Designer: Jose Gonzalez Granero
Mixer/Sound Designer: Nan Hu
Layout Advisor: Oliver Sin
Cleanup Assistants: Shun Li, Ari Bryant, Jesse James Dean, Crystal Godat
Consulting Producer: Alessandro Squitti
Art & Design, Animation, Cleanup, Color, Composit, edit and whatever else: Tina T. Hsu
Credits (IMDb)
Special Thanks
My Family, My Instructors, My Friends, The Academy of Art University of San Francisco, Scott Leberecht, Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams and my Fall 2010 preproduction class, Nicolas P. Villarreal, Fellow AAU 2D lab dwellers, everyone who helped me and all the frogs that inspired me.
Photo: Eiji Shinojima
Production Notes
A frog wakes up in a bag of mixed vegetables at a supermarket. A lady runs by and grabs the bag.