Ruiming Wu is a Chinese director who currently lives in London. He graduated with a BA in Animation from Tianjin University of Science and Technology. After graduation he worked as a storyboard designer and character designer in animation companies. Then he pushed for a MA degree in animation at Royal College of Art, Narrative Pathway.During his studies at the Royal College of Art, he has made a narrative piece – Error 404 – which has been screened in SHORT to the Point Animation Festival, and Athens Digital Arts Festival.
Ruiming Wu
Ruiming Wu's practice mainly focuses on his personal perceptions of the outside world and his own opinions on things that happened at the moment or in history. He is good at using metaphors in storytelling, and fond of using images to convey the emotions. Ruiming primarily worked with the traditional 2D way of animation, using black and white tone to let images more subject to the narrative of the whole piece, and he was more focused on the outcome, trying to use his works to give answers to things that bothered people. After his studies at the Royal College of Art, he is now more focused on the process; instead of giving answers he now prefers to raise questions in his work. He has abandoned the traditional narrative methods of animation, and started to express himself with a new form of animation which doesn't have a fixed point of view nor a clear time frame or space relation.
Digital drawing is the method that Ruiming feels comfortable with; he is trying to use images to create his own world, to show his audience how he observes things, and what his own perception of the world is, his visual style was influenced a lot by Expressionism paintings.
The film Flâneur is about a journey through the conflict between the freedom of one's spiritual world and those boundaries of reality. It is also a documentary seen through the director’s personal perception of his life in London.