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Xi "Jake" Wang is a Los Angeles-based digital artist currently employed by Refik Anadol Studio and is an active member of Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ). He obtained his Bachelor's degree from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2007 and completed his Master's degree in animation and digital art from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2020. Xi has worked on numerous high-profile art projects, exhibiting his latest work, the immersive animation short film Illusory Land, at Siggraph Asia 2022. He also directed the real-time animation short, Metamorphosis, which won the Director's Choice Award at the Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival, and was runner-up for the First Look 2021 Industry Award, and an official selection at the Telluride Film Festival Student Prints and Unreal Engine Student Showcase Spring 2021. Xi's exceptional animation works have been featured at prestigious exhibitions such as the Getty Museum and other art galleries, and he has been involved in significant studio projects, including Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the TV series The Last of Us, and several music videos, and more.