FUSION WAYANG KULIT (Fusion WK) is an award-winning team from Malaysia, founded by Tintoy Chuo and Take Huat (co-founder) in 2012, where the duo works closely with Mr. Pak Dain who is the 13th accredited Master Puppeteer to revive the traditional shadow puppetry art by merging it with the digital/multimedia realm, and to spread its cultural awareness further afield while preserving the tradition in the roots of its home nation.
As a team, Fusion WK keeps that particular tradition alive by using different subject matters as the basis of their creations, implementing some of the most well-known pop culture icons of the modern age such as: Star Wars movies, DC superheroes (Justice League), Sony PlayStation (Horizon Forbidden West, God of War, The Last of Us, Ratchet & Clank, Ghost of Tsushima) and Japanese mecha (Evangelion, Zaku of Gundam) & Tokusatsu (Ultraman, Kamen Rider). Fusion WK has also created the world’s first transformable wayang kulit inspired by Macross anime series.
The team has been featured on CNN Channel, Wall Street Journal, Nikkei Asia Japan, National Geographic Asia, NZZ FOLIO Switzerland, Goethe-Institut Germany and has also been recognized by the official Star Wars channel, Star Wars Insider magazine, PlayStation Asia and the singer Ed Sheeran himself. Fusion WK team has performed internationally in Singapore, Thailand, Japan, China, Austria and Germany, and even gave a talk at Pixar Animation Studios recently.