Meet eve liu | freelance illustrator/motion designer

We had the good fortune of connecting with eve liu and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi eve, have there been any changes in how you think about work-life balance?
as a freelance artist, my “work” time is actually split into two parts, a part to doing the actual commission client paid for that for my living, and another part I will use up for exploring and promoting things I really enjoyed doing, sth that not exactly fit “capitalism art” standard, but I think they are great to show. I used to devote so much time to the first part that the second part would take up a lot of my downtime and my moods would get mixed up. I think it’s more important for me to explore more different ways of creating, so I’m spending more time on my non-profit work and relaxing now.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
At the beginning of my freelance career, the subjects I was working on were my biggest challenge. I often wondered why the compositions, topics, and atmospheres that expressed my femininity and identity were considered less than tremendous or only “superficial.” Still, the style that directly represented my preferences did bring me a lot of work, so I embraced my ” “qualities” and I’m proud of them.

Later in my freelance career, my biggest challenge was the way of expression, and it became clear that static art was no longer satisfying the worldview and aesthetic I wanted to express, so I began to learn to use animation and sounds, and from now on I will continue to work towards becoming a special motion designer.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
It all started when I started exploring motion design at the beginning of last year; I did a series of explorations on animation (refer to my work “bouncing shapes”). Because I didn’t have this motion degree, everything I did was more like a projection of my own orientation and aesthetics. When I posted this, I didn’t expect to receive any commissions at all, so I was very surprised when I received an animation commission from pop up magazine for a multimedia presentation by gina Poe. This specific story that I’m going to help with is about neuroscientist Gina Poe’s journey in her field; initially, pop-up magazine gave me very detailed scripts and subscripts, and I’m very grateful for their help with the art direction, but I’m even more thankful to the editor li for giving me a lot of freedom and allowing me to have more of my ideas about the dynamics and portrayal of the story. As a result, pop-up magazine, and I was able to innovate more in terms of animation transitions and character interactions, making what should have been a bland presentation more vibrant.

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