yuhuan Shen
MA Narrative Environments
University of the Arts London
Specialisms: Animation / Landscape / Garden Design / Storytelling
Location: London, United Kingdom
yuhuan Shen
First Name: yuhuan
Last Name: Shen
Specialisms: Animation / Landscape / Garden Design / Storytelling
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: University of the Arts London
Course / Program Title: MA Narrative Environments
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.
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