2025 Co-work 

The theme for Co-work 2025 is “Beginning of Love”. This year’s program invites participants to engage in a philosophical and artistic exploration of love—not only as an emotional experience but as a universal human value. Participants are encouraged to reflect on love from diverse perspectives, drawing inspiration from both ancient philosophical traditions and personal experiences. As a force that underlies much of human life, love is often misunderstood or taken for granted. Through this workshop, we aim to collectively reconsider its essence, forms, and expressions in today’s increasingly complex world.

Team A

Team members : GONG Yixuan, PARK Miji, WU Yichen, ZOU Nan
Animation support : DENG Qiyun (2D part Assistant), WEN yujie (3D Part Assistant)
Sound : HWANG Jumi, LEE MinJu
Technique : 3D Animation, Digital drawing, Modeling
Running time : 2’ 10”

Concept

Love can come from everything. In countless universes, love always exists.

Story

The mother sings the boy a lullaby about love. While thinking about what love is, the boy slowly falls asleep. In his dream, he travels through countless worlds and witnesses many forms of love.

Team B

Team members : ISHIMARU Tatsuhito, LEE Euihun, MA Yiqian, PARK Juhyun
Animation support : FENG Chang, YU Haiquan, ZHOU Jiaxi
Music : ISHIMARU Tatsuhito
Sound : KIL Minseo
Technique : Hand Drawing, Watercolor, 2D Digital
Running time : 1’ 25”

Concept

We often perceive love through exaggerated and distorted emotions. However, true love begins only when the illusions fade, and we are able to face and accept the other person as they truly are.

Story

A character experiences love in an exaggerated and intense way through the lenses of their glasses, but as time passes and the glasses come off, they are faced with the other’s true self.

Team C

Team members : KIM Nayong , LIAN Yanling, OKADA Kazuna, WANG Yaoting
Animation support : MU Zeqi, MI Xiaotian, ZHAI Shanshan
Sound : HWANG Hyena, KIM Hyesu
Technique : 2D, Hand-drawn animation
Running time : 2’ 2”

Concept

The consistent, everlasting love between mother and daughter – which endures the countless wounds they give each other.

Story

The daughter has caught a mysterious claws by virus while mother tries to help with cutting daughter’ s toe nails(claws),they keep getting into arguments. The daughter starts to believe that her mother doesn’ t love her…

Team D

Team members : DONG Yuanting , HYUN Changho, HUANG Xinyi, KIM Semi, WANG Xiaomeng
Animation support : CHEN Siqin, LI Yueran, ZHANG Chuyan
Sound : LEE Miroo
Technique : 2D Digital
Running time : 1’ 48”

Concept

A person will come to love the things cherished by someone they love. This is how love travels—weaving all things together in an intimate tapestry..

Story

The story is about a mother, her daughter, and a cat. The daughter brought home a stray cat, but her mother refused to accept it. They argued about this. Eventually, the mother saw how much her daughter loved the cat. Because she loved her daughter, the mother decided to accept the cat too.

Team E

Team members : HAN Seungmin, HWANG Eunseo, LI Zhijian, WAWRZESZKIEWICZ Klaudia, ZHU Haoyuan
Animation support : CHEN Yaxi, JIN Daoqing, LI Changye, LU Wei
Music: PARK Seho
Sound : HWANG Eunseo
Technique : 2D Digital
Running time : 1’ 39”

Concept

We thought of the journey to love as a flow of time. There are brief moments in which one is seen more beautifully through the lens of the other’s imagination, and long stretches where I simply exist naturally as myself. Together, these moments form a single flow. And when this flow is fully embraced by both, when two flows merge into one, that is when love is truly realized.

Story

Using the elements of dots, lines, and planes, the story portrays a man and a woman who meet for the first time and, over the passage of time, gradually get to know each other and fall in love.