下一秒 (The Next Second)

2D Animated Music Video

兰音Reine | Phigros Game | Sakura Records | Animation Project

Project XYM (2026) is a non-profit, 2D animated music video project featuring the hard work of a 100+ artist crew. With a production span of 7 months, a group of talented animators, artists, and designers created this visually stunning film for Sakura Records’ song “下一秒” (The Next Second), featuring the vocals from Chinese Vup and musician 兰音Reine.

The song is featured on Phigros (Music Game).

Visdev Art by Luna Yijia Yuan

Layout Sheet by ISSA

The original goal of this animation project was to form a community of artists interested in anime-style production, gathering to learn and create something wonderful. Together, we explored a pipeline that included Photoshop, TV Paint, Blender, After Effects, Nuke, and Autodesk Maya (*and some Storyboard Pro, CSP, and ToonBoom Harmony here and there).

Many of us started using TV Paint for the first time in our lives because of this project; we grew together as animators and artists. For all the tutorials we created during this project, check out Tutorials.

Visdev Art by Cathy Li

Meet the awesome crew of Project XYM/下一秒!

Click on the names to check out everyone’s page and works!

Written and Directed by | 导演/编剧

Bea Qian

Art Director | 美术总监

ISSA

Technical Director | 技术总监

Freya Jiayu Zhao

Animation Director | 动画总监

Melanie Kwon

Producers | 制片

Shi Huang‍ ‍Gerile Yang

Storyboard/Pre-vis | 分镜/预演

Bea Qian‍ ‍Gerile Yang ‍Lillian Zou‍ ‍Qing Lan

Preproduction Team | 前期团队

Concept Art | 概念设计

Aidelank ISSA‍ ‍Kevin Wang‍ ‍Keyna Gao‍ ‍Linka Guo‍ ‍Selim Choi

Visdev/Color | 视觉/颜色设计

Cathy Li‍ ‍ISSA‍ ‍Luna Yijia Yuan‍ ‍Ryckie Bian

Illustrator / Graphics | 插画/图像设计

Cairo Lam‍ ‍Selim Choi‍ ‍suansuan 卡dandy

Layout Sheet | 设计稿

Bea Qian‍ ‍ISSA

Animation Team | 动画团队

2D Animation Producer | 动画组制片

Shi Huang

2D Animation Producer Assistant | 动画组制片助理

Izetta

Animators (Rough + Clean Up) | 动画师(原画)

阿钨‍ ‍Andreal Villarreal‍ ‍Andy Zhang‍ ‍BEANI‍ ‍Bella Gutierrez‍ ‍Binusha Perera‍ ‍Carmen Ng‍ ‍C. Mangos‍ ‍Charlotte Wilson‍ ‍Chenxi Yang 冬笋‍ ‍Ellie Xu Emily Goetting Fergie F‍ ‍Haram Lee‍ ‍Joey Porrigens Jonathan Chang Kenet Garcia Rojas‍ ‍Klench Andrei Llacuna‍ ‍Lillian Ng‍ ‍Maysun (Sunny) La‍ ‍Melanie Kwon‍ ‍Mingshan Chen‍ ‍Nicholas Paragas‍ ‍PPY‍ ‍Rain (Ray) S. Cha‍ ‍Ruolin Chen‍ ‍Shan Shuo Sinh Nguyen Siyuan Su‍ ‍Sofia Mazzotta Will Shen Xuenqi Chong 之冂

Animators (Ink + Paint) | 动画师(清线+上色)

岸Kishi‍ ‍CSYK00‍ ‍Emily Te‍ ‍Emma R.‍ ‍Francis Jin‍ ‍ISSA ‍ ‍Jessica Hernandez‍ ‍Jessica Pan Korneliya S 林银qiu Lindsey Ouano‍ ‍Matt Kadaroesman‍ ‍凹no‍ ‍雨眠Rainight‍ ‍Tu Khue (Suri) Nguyen 温水 小月XiaoYue‍ ‍鄴彥Yen 芝麻-Zheng

Animation Support | 作画修正

Bea QianISSA‍ ‍Melanie Kwon

Background Team | 背景美术团队

Background Producer | 背景组制片

Gerile Yang

Lead Background Artist | 首席背景画师

Julia Hui

Background Artists | 背景画师

Ale Uriarte‍ ‍楚筠‍ ‍Clare Wang‍ ‍Emma Eng‍ ‍Eris Paz‍ ‍Evan Liew‍ ‍Hayate Luc‍ ‍ISSA‍ ‍Luna Yijia Yuan‍ ‍Marci Wilson‍ ‍Meeti Patel‍ ‍Megan Thong‍ ‍Ryckie Bian‍ ‍Taylor Eunkyung Kim‍ ‍Xinyi Wu‍ ‍Yana Emilova‍ ‍Ziwei Chen

Post-Production Team | 后期团队

CG Pipeline TD | 三位流程技术指导

햄태

Modelers | 模型师

Aidelank Song

3D Generalist | 三维设计师

Erjie Chen

Render + Rigging + Camera Artist | 渲染 + 骨骼绑定 + 相机

Bea Qian

Compositing Producer | 合成制片

Gerile Yang

Lead CG Compositing | 首席三维合成

ANGELO

Compositors | 合成师

Alina Ali Noor‍ ‍André Rache‍ ‍ANGELO‍ ‍Bea Qian‍ ‍Cairo Lam‍ ‍CSYK00‍ ‍Francis Jin‍ ‍Freya Jiayu Zhao Gabriela Michelle Cervantes Urbalejo Jamie Ams Taylor mainRBr SEvenTvGong‍ ‍十里 Tianqi Chen 小月XiaoYue‍ ‍一袋鹿米

Rotoscope Performance Artist | 动态表演演员

Plasmic

Early Development Support | 项目早期支持

Tracy Li

Illustration by suansuan