Veda Lee (sakuraopal), is an internationally award winning animation director, illustrator and animator from Hong Kong. 

Graduated from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) with a BFA in Character Animation, her works focus on telling stories that evoke a sense of warmth and nostalgia, as well as incorporating her home city’s unique culture into her art. 

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Veda’s works have been showcased in renowned venues such as San Francisco Airport Museum, United Nations FAO, PBS SoCal, AIA Hong Kong Observation Wheel, while she has also worked with companies such as ClipStudioPaint, HUION Tablet, Hoyoverse, TVB Hong Kong, Makerville and more.​

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She also goes by the alias Saku/sakuraopal, posting Youtube videos inspiring fellow artists and fostering a worldwide community online with 160k+ subscribers.

When she is not drawing, you can find her dancing, doing music, or simply just taking walks and obsessively taking pictures of the streets of Hong Kong!  :-)

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李悅（Veda Lee）, 香港動畫及插畫家，取得加州藝術學院（CalArts）角色動畫藝術學士學位（BFA），作品風格屬魔幻現實的童趣，溫馨懷舊，巧妙地把香港的獨特文化呈獻給本地及國際讀者和觀眾。

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李悅的作品曾於多個知名平台及場館展出，包括聯合國糧農組織（UN FAO）世界糧食論壇、三藩市國際機場博物館（San Francisco Airport Museum）、美國南加州公立電視台（PBS SoCal）、英國廣播公司（BBC）以及香港AIA摩天輪公園等；同時，她亦曾與 Clip Studio Paint、繪王 HUION Tablet、米哈遊（Hoyoverse）、香港電視廣播有限公司（TVB）、MakerVille、皮革展等知名品牌及機構合作。

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李悅以 Saku / sakuraopal 網名成為銀牌 YouTuber，擁有超過16萬的全球訂閱者，其影片點擊率接近一千二百萬，啟發了無數有志繪畫的青少年。此外，她於香港中學教授數位繪畫。

當她不在畫畫時，她在跳舞、創作音樂，或者只是在香港街頭漫步，記錄這座城市的街景！ :-)