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yuhuan Shen
MA Narrative Environments

University of the Arts London

Graduates: 2026

Specialisms: Animation / Landscape / Garden Design / Storytelling

My location: London, United Kingdom

YH Shen ArtsThread Profile
University of the Arts London

yuhuan Shen

YH Shen ArtsThread Profile

First Name: yuhuan

Last Name: Shen

University / College: University of the Arts London

Course / Program: MA Narrative Environments

Graduates: 2026

Specialisms: Animation / Landscape / Garden Design / Storytelling

My Location: London, United Kingdom

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About

Yuhuan Shen is a spatial and 3D designer with a background in landscape architecture, specialising in spatial storytelling, worldbuilding, character design and 3D animation for immersive experiences and cinematic speculative worlds. She combines a sensitivity to landscape, atmosphere, and narrative with digital media to transform conceptual ideas into rich spatial experiences. Her work explores the relationship between place, fiction, and interaction, often moving across disciplines to develop imaginative and visually compelling design outcomes.

Overload is an animated short film following a digital hoarder who accidentally enters her collapsing cloud storage world. Here, files grow into strange creatures, algorithms maintain a surface illusion of order, and long-forgotten data gradually corrupts, petrifies, and accumulates into vast digital ruins. As she travels deeper, she observes a memory landscape shaped jointly by her own hoarding and machine management. The film reveals that relying on AI and modern information technologies to preserve everything cannot make memory eternal.