From Page to Pixel: Turning a Story into an Animated Reality
PresentationChen Junhua | Moderator: Galen Yeo
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Award-winning author Chen Junhua shares his journey of transforming his fable Library of Mystory from page to screen as a first-time, self-taught director. Discover how he navigated writing, worldbuilding, and AI animation to independently produce his 3D film—proving that imagination, persistence, and creativity can turn any story into reality.
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Chen Junhua (Singapore)
Chen Junhua (pen name Heroald Chern) is an award-winning Singaporean author, educator, and storyteller whose works weave moral lessons and local fauna into timeless fables. His books, Beware the Sunda Slow Loris and Other Singaporean Fables, and The Dance of the Sambar Deer: and More Singaporean Fables, have won international awards including the Nautilus and Feathered Quill Book Awards. As a champion of creativity and design thinking in education, Junhua now leads an AI-powered 3D animation studio that is adapting his debut work, Library of Mystory, into a musical featured-film teaching imagination and the timeless moral of 'you reap what you sow'.
Galen Yeo (Singapore)
Galen Yeo loves reading and is an avid book collector. An award-winning TV writer, director and producer, he co-founded The Moving Visuals Co., one of Singapore’s leading content producers. His credits include a wide range of genres: entertainment; documentaries; kids; and short-form content for channels like Mediacorp, Disney, Nat Geo, History Channel, and many others. From novellas to podcasts, he enjoys storytelling in all forms and mediums. He has moderated several AFCC talks over the years, and looks forward to learning from other creators.
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