Ke Ren
london-based
moving / still imagesANIMATE
DRAW
EXHIBITION
COLLABORATION
About
Instagram: cokkrn
Email: keren.coo@outlook.com
©2024 by Ke R
Workshop by Artist Birgitta Hosea
In October 2024, I participated in the "Animating Landscape" workshop led by artist Birgitta Hosea at South Hill Park Arts Centre. The workshop was part of Birgitta Hosea’s exhibition "Holes," used collage, mixed media, and Stop Motion Studio to explore Victorian panoramas and build story worlds. During this process, I collaborated with Sage and Zhuyuan to create a short animation about aliens and penguins invading an amusement park. We drew inspiration from the landscapes and facilities of the nearby South Hill Park amusement park, including the gardens, lakes, children's play areas, and natural woodlands, all surrounded by historic buildings and public spaces, which provided a rich narrative backdrop. Meanwhile, all the animations created during the workshop were displayed alongside Birgitta Hosea’s exhibition.
Inspiral London
In this short exploratory walk, artists Birgitta Hosea and Sarah Sparkes lead participants through a collaborative Ritual Collaborative Drawing on the Thames.
Inspired by the InspiralLondon project "how to experience the city," I scanned stones collected from the riverbank and created a series of looping images using stop-motion animation, exploring the deformation and connections between similar objects. Later, I revisited two places I had previously lived in London, by interweaving photographs taken in the past with the present and street views in Google Maps, I re-explored these familiar places and the connections I have with them.
Where Art, Nature, Community and Heritage Converge
This summer, I was invited to create an illustration Canal Dream as an illustrator for the Canal Dream Art Festival 2024.
Dream Time: 09-16 August 2024
Dream Location: Kings Cross, London Regent’s Canal
Director: Andy Sarjahani
Animation director: Naghmeh Farzaneh
Producers: Elyse Kelly, Daniel Lombroso
Executive producers: Paul Moakley, Soo-Jeong Kang
Supervising producer: Melissa Fajardo
Art director & Storyboard artist: Naghmeh Farzaneh
Animators: Anna Bron, Naghmeh Farzaneh, Joumana Ismail, Hannah McNally, Ke Ren, Andrew Whyte
Cleanup & Color: Joumana Ismail, Ke Ren, Andrew Whyte
Compositors: Anna Bron, Naghmeh Farzaneh, Elyse Kelly
Title design by Osmosis Films Josh Eriksen, Ben Koring, Zach Russo
Funding provided by World Within Studios
Produced by Bay Picture 大湾视频
Character design: Lei Yang
Background artist: Yuxin Zhao, Ke Ren, Lei Yang
Animation: Lei Yang, Yuxin Zhao, Ke Ren
Post-production: Lei Yang, Yuxin Zhao
Music: 阿生_J2S
TOUR VISUALS
Director: @animate_jack
production company: @strangebeasttv
Character design: @animate_jack @senkawa.teien
Animation: @alejandroedgarani @maki_animation @crooomps @campbell_hartley @duncan.gist @hozen_britto
Tie down: @senkawa.teien @alejandroedgarani
Lead cleanup: @simonaxme
cleanup: @lydiareidillustrationz @cokkrn @lemonadeyts @basia_xiang
Comp: @tonycomley
Saya Gray - DIPAD33 / W . I . D . F
Director: @animate_jack
Animation assistant: @cokkrn @simonaxme
Commissioner: @loieskim @dirtyhit
BRUT4L
Director: @animate_jack
Artistic Direction: @s90.world @antoine_bourhis @ikazboi
Character design: @supernovasson
Animation: @senkawa.teien @animate_jack
Animation assistant: @lemonadeyts @chenyee001 @simonaxme @cokkrn
Background: @animate_jack Hanwei Liu
Comp: @animate_jack
Animation editing : Mourad Moox
Animation Logo BRUT4L Tobhi
Bubjan
Director: Nicholas Mihm
Producer: Lisa Rudin
Executive producers: Brandon Stanton, Rostam Zafari
Animation director: Elyse Kelly
Art directors: Anna Bron, Joumana Ismail
Storyboard artist: Anna Bron
Character designer: Joumana Ismail
Animators Joumana: Ismail, Aira Joana, Eric Larson, Christine Le
Cleanup & Color: Sanjana Chandrasekhar, Ke Ren
Compositors: Anna Bron, Eric Larson, Elyse Kelly
GFX & Motion designer Dorca Musseb
Animation consultant: Naghmeh Farzaneh
Production assistants: Amy Cazares, Margaret Neely
Henrietta Finds a NestDirected and Designed by Hannah McNally
Story by Matthew Scheer
Written by Matthew Scheer and Diana McCorry
Executive Produced by Leah Garcés, Matthew Scheer, Emily Collins, Michaela Olsen, Daniel Shepard
Produced by Megan Barbour, Chloe Devine, Kelsey Usher
Music by Cat Head Noise
Animated by Joumana Ismail, Flora Caulton, Martha Halliday, Eric Larson, Jessica Milazzo, Hannah McNally, Christine Le, Sabrina Chaney
Clean up Artists: Ken Re and Hannah O’Brien
Compositors: Hannah McNally, Sabrina Chaney, Alejandro De Hoyos Lechuga
Storyboard Artists: Hannah McNally, Christine Le, Niv Sekar
Background Artists: Lili Jimenez, Laura Correal
Sound Designer: Christ Mastellone
Graphics by Liz Klein DiBello, Mary Beth Scheer, Alejandro De Hoyos Lechuga
Post Production Assistant: Anthony Galante
Pet is not a gift
Director: Roberts Kulenko
Executive producers: Helena Zakare-Semjonova, Elina Alaine, Laura Zavodska, Rita Steimane
Illustrations: Gosia Jeniec
Animation lead: Gints Gutmanis
Rough keys & Tiedowns: Francois Schonken, Milena Tipaldo, Kyrylo Novikov, Anastasia Titarenko
2D Animation & Compositing: Vladimirs Karsecjans
Music composer: Arturs Liepins
Voice over: Robins Pols Sverns
Art director: Gints Gutmanis
Sketched storyboard artist: Arturs Bunts
Graphic designer: Matiss Zvaigzne
Cel animation lead: Francois Schonken
Clean up & Color: Maxim Kotlyar, Kyrylo Novikov, Anastasia Titarenko, David Stumpf, Francois Schonken, Ke Ren
Post-production: Gints Gutmanis, Vladimirs Karsecjans
Sound design: Arturs Liepins
Initiated by the School of Art and Design at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.
I participated as a character & concept illustrator in the early stages of the BIFTOR digital project initiated by the School of Art and Design at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. The project’s version 1.0 included an offline exhibition displayed at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology from April 20 to April 30, 2024, while the digital show was presented on a 3D digital screen at THE BOX in Chaowai.