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Cloudward Academy

(Original Animation Trailer)

Full fantasy world design with unique characters

Graphics rendered with Seedance 2.5

AI assisted music score, original SFX

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Persona 5 Royale (Announcement Trailer)

Full Sound Re-design

Mixed and Edited with Pro Tools

Partial SFX and Dialogue generated by Elevenlabs AI

Video Source: ATLUS

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Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Drive Like Hell

Full Sound Re-design (5.1 Surround)

Vancouver Film School Capstone Project

Dialogue+Music+SFX Full Redesign

Stereo Mix (Link to 5.1 Version Below)

5.1 Mix Ver.

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Demon Agent 大唐妖探（August 2026）

Major Animation Feature Film by BingDi Animation Studio (Beijing)

Roles:

- assistant audio editor in preliminary sound design and dialogue spotting during layout/blocking phase

- multilingual production assistant during collaboration with foreign animation vendors

Chillpop
Music
Channel

Here are some samples of an artist profile I created to share music composition ideas onto streaming platforms.

Currently in my City Pop phase, more to come!

AI-Assisted
Music Composition

A personal pet project exploring AI-assisted music and visual production.

Starting with writing lyrics and chord structure, I use AI to experiment with vocal signatures and flesh out accompanying instrumental tracks.

The resulting audio stems are then manually edited and mixed using Pro Tools and Ableton Live

Finally I create original background artwork using generative tools and transform it into seamless looping visuals to complement the music and atmosphere.

VFS Production Sound

Vancouver Film School: KnightFall - Short Film

Automated Dialogue Replacement Recorder+
SFX Mixer+Foley Artist: James Wang

VFS Film Production - SoundDesign collaboration Project (Aug 2024)

Music + Performance

Tenor vocalist with 10 years stage experience

Featured: Eh? Cappella on Spotify

A competitive collegiate A Cappella Team representing the University of British Columbia, for which I served as a tenor vocalist and live sound technician from 2019-2023

Instagram: @ehcappella

Vocals: Kento's Tokyo Ginza 2026.06.07

First live performance gig at Kento's Ginza, Tokyo. As Chorus member.

Accompany instrumentalists and harmonize with main singers.

Eh? Cappella 2020 ICCA Set - Live at Rialto Theatre, Tacoma WA (Semifinalists, West Quarterfinals Champion)

Live a cappella set, performed in front of 300+ audience and judge panel.

Song List:
Masterpiece (opb. Tori Kelly)
Black and White (opb. The Staves)
Blow (opb. Ed Sheeran ft. Chris Stapleton, Bruno Mars)

2nd highest score in all of International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) in 2020.

Game Audio & Scripting

Game Audio Featured Project: "Not Raised by Wolves" Sound Redesign

Vancouver Film School Game Audio Final Project.

Responsibilities: Primary sound designer for UI and Player SFX.
Assisted in technical sound design and mixing in 5.1 surround using Wwise.

Interactive Audio Visualizer - Capstone Project for Minor in Applied Music Technology

My Applied Music Technology Capstone project was the creation of an audio visualization module, which utilizes both MaxMSP and Unity to explore possibilities in interactive generated graphics. The main inspiration behind this project was the widespread popularity of online background music, whose accompanying visuals seemingly had unfulfilled potential. The module was able to generate a VFX particle system in Unity for each audio signal input, whose properties reflected audio parameters such as pitch, amplitude, and timbre. The conversion of sound to visuals allows much freedom in design choices, as the shape, color, speed of the particle systems are completely subjective, as long as there is a degree of correlation to the audio being played. The result is a highly customizable ensemble of audio-responsive particle systems in the Unity world, a more meaningful accompaniment for not only background music, but potentially other applications such as live performances.

Featured: Cloudward Academy (Original Animation Trailer)

Featured: Persona 5 Royale (Announcement Trailer) Full Sound Re-design

Featured: Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Drive Like Hell Full Sound Re-design (5.1 Surround)

Featured: Demon Agent 大唐妖探（August 2026）

Chillpop Music Channel

AI-Assisted Music Composition