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Dragon Spring - Tea Story

In the mountains of Hangzhou, where thick mist surrounds the ancient tea terraces, a jade dragon guards the sacred well of Longjing. Stories tell of the dragon rising each spring as mountain fog, breathing life into the tea leaves. The villagers swear they’ve seen the dragon in the rising mist.

Dragon Spring tells the legend of Longjing tea through hand-drawn, paper-cut illustration and short form animation.

The folklore-inspired 3D design combines hand-drawn ink illustration and paper-cutting with a packaging window that reveals the tea leaves, integrating product and story-telling.

Oolong 烏龍 (wūlóng) means black dragon. Discovering the meaning behind this Chinese tea led me down a rabbit hole, eventually stumbling on Longjing tea and its rich folklore. This is how my animated tea illustration was born.