We chat with AmericanBornChinese VFX Supervisor Kaitlyn Yang (kaitlynyang) about the importance of her job when it comes to boosting industry diversity and authenticity:
Gene Luen Yang's beloved mix of coming-of-age themes with magical adventure finally makes its way to the screen with American Born Chinese. The Disney+ series centers on teenager Jin Wang, who finds himself pulled into the fight to prevent an uprising to bring down Heaven. He teams up with the son of the legendary Sun Wukong, otherwise known as the Monkey King, and the Goddess of Mercy Guanyin.
Kaitlyn Yang on American Born Chinese Screen Rant: I watched American Born Chinese, and it was just wonderful. It's heartwarming, it's funny, it's action-packed, it's great. You have worked on VFX for so many different things, how were you approached to be the VFX supervisor for this show? Kaitlyn Yang: I think our writers knocked it out of the park, I was meeting with a few of them a couple of days ago, and I was saying to them I truly believe there was an old-timey sitcom named Beyond Repair, and all the racist things were happening, and now it's coming back to light, that's so believable.
For episode 4, we looked at a lot of Chinese paintings of what does heaven look like, because it's not supposed to be a hyper realistic heaven. It's supposed to be very dreamy, you're kind of going back in time, you're setting them up to go into this very fancy party, the environment is not something that should catch your eye, but really just kind of provide the setting in which all the fascinating or rich dialogues can take place.
Kaitlyn Yang: I would say the opening for episode 1, that was so exciting. I was reading and I was marking up and I was taking so many notes, and I'm like, "Man, I'm doodling on the bottom of pg. 1, this is gonna be a fun puzzle to put together." I, like so many immigrant kids, grew up on Hong Kong action movies, right? Kung Fu.
And you can't find that any better than Michelle Yeoh, she always just fully embodies the writing and the visual effects. It's a perfect marriage. Before the huge battle takes place, the starting point is the beginning of a play that we're seeing the kids put on, kind of as a pre-game show. So, really finding magic that is covering both spectrums, has to be grand enough for it to be the portal between Heaven and Earth, but also believable enough that a student production could put this on. What was so fun to work on that scene was our incredible choreography led by Ping Chong.
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