Photograph by Dorcas Tang
Steffie Yee 余淑婷 is an Animation Director & Illustrator based in Australia.
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Steffie’s work weaves together digital and mixed-media processes involving stop-motion, ink, pencil, video, and 2D & 3D animation. With a background in music, her animation style is driven by the synergy between sound and image. In addition to creating animation for music, film, TV, and commercials, Steffie’s work has also appeared in the forms of illustration, public art installation, and live visual installation for events.
Her work has screened internationally at film festivals, including at the Atlanta Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, and at Palm Springs ShortFest, where her stop-motion film The Lost Sound (2018) received two nominations for Best Animated Short and Best Animated Student Short. In the online space, Steffie’s work has earned features on Vimeo Staff Picks, Motionographer, Aeon Video and BOOOOOOOM TV.
SELECT CLIENTS
Sam Smith, Justin Bieber, The Free Nationals, PinkPantheress, Warner Music, Vimeo, Yebba, Anomalie, Masego, TOKiMONSTA, McDonald’s, The Naked and Famous, Tkay Maidza, Red Bull Music, Klarna, University of Technology Sydney, QANTAS, Opera Bar Sydney, City of Sydney, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
SERVICES
• Concept Development
• Treatment Writing
• Creative & Art Direction
• Animation Direction
• Storyboarding
• Illustration
• Graphic Design
• Video Content
MEDIA
The Lost Sound (2020)
Interview: Motionographer - Project Breakdown with Steffie Yee
Interview: We Are Moving Stories
Interview: Close up Culture
Q&A Webinar: Miilkiina x Argo: Up and Coming Directors
Feature: Aeon
Feature: BOOOOOOOM TV
Vimeo: Ladies With Lenses Feature
Worldline Corporations (2018)
Review: Upside Adelaide – Fringe Review
The Naked and Famous – Recover (Music Video)
Interview: Life Without Andy
Justin Bieber – Yummy (Music Video)
Interview: Life Without Andy
Artist interview
Highly Contagious Magazine - Issue 01
FEATURED ARTIST
La Vie Taiwan Magazine – ‘Under 35’ Creatives List
Featured speaker at the Women In Film and Television Victoria (WIFT Vic) panel at St Kilda Film Festival 2019
AWARDS
Vimeo Staff Pick 2021: The Lost Sound
Best Sound Design - Freshflix X Vivid Sydney 2019: The Lost Sound
Highly Commended - Canberra Short Film Festival 2019: The Lost Sound
Audience Award - Stockholm Experimental Animation Film Festival 2018: The Lost Sound
BankSA Weekly Award for Best Film, Digital and Interactive Work of The Week - Adelaide Fringe Festival 2019: Worldline Corporations
NOMINATED
Best Animated Short - Palm Springs International ShortFest 2019: The Lost Sound
Best Animated Student Short - Palm Springs International ShortFest 2019: The Lost Sound
Best Director - Coven Film Festival 2018: The Lost Sound
Best International Film - Coven Film Festival 2018: The Lost Sound
Best Experimental - Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019: Worldline Corporations
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• Group Show: ‘Continuum’ – Independent animation from Japan and Australia (2022) - The Japan Foundation, Sydney - 2022
• Group Show: Animation Shorts: In My Own Skin 1970 – Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) - 2022
• Group Show: Babe & Friends - Atelier Motorik Art Gallery, Darlinghurst – July 2020
• Group Show: LOOPY - Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale – Feb 2020
• Group Show: Babekuhl Issue 01 Book Launch - Babekuhl Studio, Darlinghurst – December 2019
• Group Show: Homegrounds - Babekuhl Studio, Darlinghurst – September 2019
• Group Show: Malt Adult Animation Screening - Columbus, Ohio – December 07 2019
• Group Show: Hag Mag Issue 02 launch at Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney – October 30 2019
• Group Show: Read To Me - Matt Huynh and Friends - Knox St Bar, Chippendale, Sydney – October 3 2019
• Group Show: Hag Mag Issue 01 launch - Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney – April 3 2019
• Group Show: Body Language by Betanarratives - 2pocket, Melbourne, Australia - Dec 15 2015
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Design in Animation (Honours) – 2014-2017
University of Technology Sydney
Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication and
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies – 2012-2013
University of Technology Sydney