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Biography

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.

Activities

Employment (2)

Refik Anadol Studio: Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA, US

2023-07-10 to present | Digital Artist
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Xi Wang

Digital Domain: Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA, US

2020-08-10 to 2023-07-10 | unreal engine Artist / staff (Visualization )
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Xi Wang

Education and qualifications (1)

School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California: Los Angeles, California, US

2017-08-15 to 2020-05-15 | MFA (John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts)
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Professional activities (1)

Association for Computing Machinery: New York, US

2023-04-01 to present
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Works (3)

翻开这个跨页 并制造一个空间 - 公共自我

VISION Magazine China
2023-07-15 | Magazine article
Contributors: Xi Wang; Danyang Cao
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Xi Wang

Illusory Land

2022-12-06 | Conference paper
Contributors: Xi Wang; Shaoyu Su; Liaowei Chen; Yifan Lin; Francisco Manuel Barros; Zao Song
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Metamorphosis: Making a CG Short Film in UE4

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2020-07-27 | Magazine article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Xi Wang
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Xi Wang