Steffie Yee 余淑婷 is an animator, illustrator, director, graphic designer, and video editor 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.

MEDIA

The Lost Sound (2020)

Interview: Motionographer - Project Breakdown with Steffie Yee
Interview: We Are Moving Stories
Interview: Close up Culture
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

TEDxSydney Youth Contributor 2023
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

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• ‘Chinese Restaurant Playground’ - Footscray Community Arts - 2024

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• ‘Continuum’ – Independent animation from Japan and Australia (2022) - The Japan Foundation, Sydney - 2022
• Animation Shorts: In My Own Skin 1970 – Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) - 2022
• Babe & Friends - Atelier Motorik Art Gallery, Darlinghurst – July 2020
• LOOPY - Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale – Feb 2020
• Babekuhl Issue 01 Book Launch - Babekuhl Studio, Darlinghurst – December 2019
• Homegrounds - Babekuhl Studio, Darlinghurst – September 2019
• Malt Adult Animation Screening - Columbus, Ohio – December 07 2019
• Hag Mag Issue 02 launch at Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney – October 30 2019
• Read To Me - Matt Huynh and Friends - Knox St Bar, Chippendale, Sydney – October 3 2019
• Hag Mag Issue 01 launch - Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney – April 3 2019
• 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