Hong Kong-based multimedia artist Tobie Tse has developed a rare hybrid of textile craft and moving image. Her process begins with hand-drawn sketches that map out each composition; from there she moves into fibre arts, stitching grids and borders entirely by hand, then scanning or photographing the crocheted panels in order to animate over them digitally. The result is a delicate bridging of needlework and motion that has caught wider attention, including through a commission for Olivia Rodrigo. Tse's pieces weave song lyrics and illustrations into antique-style motifs set on fine crochet grids – from Rodrigo's lines to the poetry of Big Thief, she takes phrases that loop endlessly in listeners' heads and reimagines them as lyrical filet crochet. Works such as 'Phenakistoscope' and 'Change' draw explicitly on the earliest animation technologies: the zoetrope, the spinning device that creates the illusion of a moving picture, and Eadweard Muybridge's 'The Horse in Motion'. As everything becomes increasingly digitised, she says, she is drawn back to 'rudimentary forms of animation and image-making', re-contextualising older methods so they feel new while keeping a sense of familiarity and paying homage to animation's history. She describes the multimedia pieces as a synthesis of her whole practice – image-making, craft, documentation and animation folded into one continuous workflow, a unified overview of techniques refined over time. She has since begun experimenting with other analogue methods, including cyanotypes and cross stitch, which she hopes to carry into more mixed-media motion projects. Tse trained at University College London, where she took a BSc in Psychology in 2020, before completing an MA in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2023. She now works as a multimedia designer in Hong Kong, with the crochet animations forming the most distinctive strand of her artistic output.