Kat Tsai

24 Dec 2025

Hey, I’m Kat - I’ve worked as a visdev artist on the Spiderverse films, KPop Demon Hunters, The Legend of Aang, and more! It’s nice to meet you, welcome!

I’m at NYCC this weekend, Saturday and Sunday! Come say hi at Artist Alley D-07! #NYCC

18 Sept

My color keys for Avatar Aang; this is the sequence where Aang is in limbo between life and death.

14 Sept

The Before Times. 1000xRESIST.

14 Sept

This illustration of Jiao and Iris is exclusively available as a poster in the 1000xRESIST physical Deluxe Edition, available now! Huge thanks again to the amazing people at @sunsetvisitor.studio and @fangamer.com for bringing me on to celebrate this incredible game. 💙

3 Sept

Hand-painted frames I drew for the explosion at the top of Mount Baihu in Avatar Aang.

3 Sept

Here it is all together:

25 Aug

My favorite part of working on animated films is getting to help with the color script, which is a narrative roadmap that helps to guide the color & lighting choices throughout the story. Here is my exploration work for some of the later sequences in the film Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender.

25 Aug

With typically only a few days to work on keys, the paintings are very small and simple but I wanted to show them (as well as the ideas I wrote down) as an authentic glimpse of the process.

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25 Aug

All of these paintings were done on top of boards by the incredible story team - I don’t know every single person involved but I do know that the amazing Steve Ahn drew many of them himself. The spirit world sequence uses some beautiful concept paintings by Tomas Muir which I altered the colors of.

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21 Aug

When @chuwenjie.bsky.social first showed us a draft of this, it took our breath away. Communion as recall, affect, and artifice. A ritual. A summoning. A memory of our past work. Thank you, Kat 🥹

Kat Tsai@chuwenjie.bsky.social

1000xRESIST

19 Aug

1000xRESIST

19 Aug

I am SO insanely excited to share that 1000xResist is now available physically! This is the illustration I made for the box cover of the Deluxe Edition, and I’m so proud to have gotten to collaborate with the folks at @sunsetvisitor.studio again on my favorite game of all time.

19 Aug

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Will you carry this? Revealing the long-awaited ✨ PHYSICAL EDITIONS ✨ for our Peabody award-winning game 1000xRESIST! This wouldn’t be possible without you. Hekki grace and thank you so much for your support. 💛 🔗 WORLDWIDE: fanga.me/r/1xr 🔗 UK AND EU: fanga.me/r/1xr-eu

18 Aug

I designed the colors for Aang’s corrupted form in Avatar Aang! More below ⬇️

18 Aug

Here are other color options I tried during concept exploration that we ended up not going with. I tried different, darker versions of Aang’s color palette as well as more spirit inspired takes.

18 Aug

I only did color, the lineart and character design were developed by a bunch of incredible artists credited here: Kihyun Ryu, Ji Hyeon Choi @cotards27.bsky.social, Caleb Thomas @ctchrysler.bsky.social, Christie Tseng, Honor Miles

17 Aug

I painted these for Avatar Aang!

17 Aug

First image is based on a design by Aaron Loftis and model by Ogi Kharikian, Sonam’s temple in the 2nd image is designed by @conpatshe.bsky.social , and Mount Baihu in the last image is based on an incredible design & painting by @alexkonstad.bsky.social and Jake Panian!

14 Aug

I created this burst card for Avatar Aang, consisting of 6 completely hand-painted frames! Final animation below ⬇️

14 Aug

This final clip is directly in the film, showing how the frames all come together!

12 Aug

Sonam’s temple leaving our world. I made this painting for the flashback scenes in Avatar Aang!

12 Aug

The design of Sonam’s temple and the city of Jharana are by @conpatshe.bsky.social!

11 Aug

Sonam turning her back on Tagah and what he stands for. I made these paintings for the flashback sequences in Avatar Aang!

10 Aug

Sonam communing with the lion turtles. I painted this for the flashback scenes in Avatar Aang!

10 Aug

The character layout is by the wonderful Christine Bian.

7 Aug

I made this painting for Avatar Aang, depicting the oncoming end of Sonam’s Airbender civilization.

6 Aug

Early colorscript keys I painted of Sonam’s tale, for Avatar Aang. This helped to establish ideas for the mood and color palette.

5 Aug

The Golden Age of Airbenders. I made this painting of Sonam gliding through the clouds for the flashback sequences in Avatar Aang!

4 Aug

The Golden Age of Airbenders. I painted this image for the flashback sequences in Avatar Aang, depicting Sonam’s ancient Airbender civilization in its heyday.

4 Aug

The design of Sonam’s temple is by the incredible @conpatshe.bsky.social !

3 Aug

My work on the Denied in Avatar Aang! I did initial concepts for the airships in the film, as well as final color design for the lead Denied characters. Credits below

3 Aug

AD Aaron Loftis did so much work to flesh out these early airship concepts and bring them to the look in the movie! I only did color for the Denied characters; the character designs are by Kihyun Ryu with clean lineart assist by Honor Miles!

3 Aug

I designed the color & lighting for Tagah's Demon Form in Avatar Aang! Character design/lineart by Kihyun Ryu and Ji Hyeon Choi

It’s my birthday! 🎂

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Thank you so much for being here: I genuinely wouldn’t be where I am today without the online artist community. I really do mean that because if it weren’t for all of the wonderful people sharing my art on the internet, the last 10 years would’ve happened very differently.

I would still be living in Virginia, working as a clinical therapist (and probably being really bad at it tbh.) Thank you so much for sticking around and being here and I hope to keep on making cool things until I’m DEAD!!!! All my love!!!

It’s my birthday! 🎂

Looking back on the last decade I can’t help but be grateful. I moved to LA from Virginia at 21 to pursue working as an artist in the animation industry, and I don’t think the 20-year-old me could’ve anticipated all the cool things I’ve gotten to do since then. I can still barely comprehend it now!

31 July

Sonam giving the gift of airbending. I made this painting for the flashback scene in Avatar Aang, which I worked to develop the look of!

31 July

Close-ups of the painting.

30 July

Sonam’s Temple. I painted these images for the flashback scene in Avatar Aang, showing Sonam and Tagah in their heyday.

29 July

The Golden Age of Airbenders. I painted these images for the flashback scene in Avatar Aang, showing Sonam and Tagah in their heyday.

I painted the color key concept for *THAT* Sonam shot in Avatar Aang. It came out so beautifully in the finished film!

Important note: As someone who is Asian and has dealt with colorism in my own life, I want to be clear that my painting is just a concept, which is why she’s a bit paler/more ghostly. The version we ended up with in the final film is most accurate to her beautiful, true dark skin tone!

Here is my character color for Sonam and Tagah in Avatar Aang! I only did color & paint; see below for full character design credits.

Avatar Sonam: Christie Tseng, Jake Panian, Kihyun Ryu; Final by Kihyun and Christie Tagah: Christie Tseng, Jake Panian, Alex Konstad, Shemsu Turner, Honor Miles; Final by Kihyun Ryu

27 July

Update on this situation from our incredible PD Jake who is more qualified to speak on this than I. This is the last time I will be posting about this- thanks everyone for supporting our artists.

Kat Tsai@chuwenjie.bsky.social

I have no clue why it was on that slide or who put it there, and every member of the crew I worked with is 100% against AI. Every aspect of the animation is handcrafted by real artists and I hope that people don’t use this slide as a reason to detract from how much love and labor went into the film.

27 July

I made these paintings of Tagah and Sonam for the flashback sequences in the Avatar Aang movie, which I was so lucky to help guide the style direction of.

26 July

My painting of Sonam’s temple for Avatar Aang. Much of the work I did on this film was developing the style for the ancient flashback sequences! #avataraang