ABOUT

Justin Cheng is a Taiwanese-Canadian 2D rigger, 2D rigged animator, and layout artist.He is the director of the Seneca Polytechnic short film The Chronicle of the Cuckoup d'Etat and the author of the comic On Love and Death, or, the Spectacular Exploit into the Psyche with Doctor Sigmund Freud.Justin is interested in musical theatre, psychoanalysis and post-war continental philosophy. He is inspired by the work of Mike Mignola, Taiyo Matsumoto and Masaaki Yuasa.Outside of animation and comics, Justin is interested in zine-making and illustration.His favourite animal is the anomalocaris.Email: [email protected]
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2025 Rigging Demo REEL

2025 ANIMATION Demo REEL

LAYOUTS

The Chronicle of the Cuckoup d'Etat

Layouts for the 2025 Seneca short film The Chronicle of the Cuckoup d'Etat

WILTING

Layouts for the award winning short film, WiltingWatch the short here!

PAINT IT!

Layouts for the 2024 Seneca short film Paint it!Watch the film here!

THE ONE WHO SQUEAKS

Layouts for Seneca College's "Toonweek", a 30-second short made in a week. The style of the short is inspired by the 2023 series, We Lost Our Human.Watch the short here!

OTHER LAYOUTS & BACKGROUNDS

ZINES & COMICS

On Love and Death

52 PAGES COLOURED COMIC
3 GUEST ILLUSTRATORSFreud invented a device to enter into his own unconscious.
What kinds of strange forces and characters will he encounter?Buy a digital copy here!

7 NEW SMURFS!!!

Do you love Smurfs? Do the currently existing Smurfs (who, let's be honest, are vanilla and passé) leave you wanting more? Then boy do I have a zine for you!
7 New Smurfs presents 7 radical new Smurfs that will bring Smurfs into the 21st century (and beyond???)Buy a digital copy here!

THE FASHBASHERZ

A character design zine (character dezine?) about three friends – Joses, Coco and Frogustus – fighting fascist zombies.
24 pages of character illustration, character exploration, prop and transportation design and more!Buy a digital copy here!

PERSONAL WORK