HBO - Love Child — Ryan Whittier Hale

Love Child documentary film

Lead 3D Art Director & Animator

I worked directly with director Valerie Veatch and Scatter to design and art direct the 3D animations featured in her HBO documentary Love Child. LOVE CHILD 사이버 사랑 is a documentary film about Internet policy development. Centered in South Korea - the world's most wired nation - LOVE CHILD follows the story of the first case where "Internet addiction" was cited as a mental illness defense and looks at today's Korean gaming culture in search of harmony in an increasingly immersive media environment, where virtual is the new reality. To read more about the film please refer to the wikipedia page or IMDB.

Art Direction & Animation

Animating with 3D scanning tech

I was brought aboard to create a series of dreamy 3D animations to highlight the surreal subject matter of internet and gaming addiction for Love Child. My animations were designed using a combination of Maya, After Effects, and 3D scanned vignettes created in using Scatter’s DepthKit technology.

reception & Release

Love Child premiered in-competition in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014 and was released on HBO and in theaters internationally.