www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文

On the horse of high expectations

By Xing Yi ( China Daily ) Updated: 2017-08-12 09:34:06

On the horse of high expectations

A Fishboy's Story [Photo provided to China Daily]

Japanese cartoons

Many Chinese who grew up in the late 1980s and 1990s cheerfully recall childhood days when they saw Japanese cartoon characters such as Astro Boy, Doraemon, Saint Seiya and Sailor Moon.

Television sets were then starting to become part of Chinese living rooms and TV stations made imported animation series a staple of their programming. One of the rare popular Chinese TV series was Calabash Brothers, a paper-cut animation aired in 1987.

Like many in China who became cartoon aficionados in that era, Zhang Liyan, the director of Calabash Brothers, who last year made a sequel to celebrate its 30th anniversary, gained his inspiration from Japan.

Zhang, 45, recalls the Japanese manga series Dragon Ball and its animated TV series when he was preparing to enroll for art college in 1990.

"It had a huge impact on me," says Zhang, who had studied Chinese painting when he was a child.

"It opened my eyes, making me realize there was another way of drawing."

When an animation studio came scouting for recruits among students in his school the response was overwhelming, he says.

"Almost half the class applied, including me."

After two years of study and work, Zhang learned how to make animation and opened his own company in the mid 1990s.

He then spent a decade struggling to come to grips with the nascent private sector.

"It was very tough. Many companies were founded and just as quickly died, but I stuck to it because of my passion for animation."

In 2003 Zhang was given the opportunity to study traditional Chinese animation at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

"These old artists showed me how to make animation using puppet or paper-cut characters. Not only did they teach me so much, but their wisdom and dedication inspired me."

Since then he has made several animations in the traditional Chinese style, using ink and brush, puppet and paper-cut.

Zhang's ambition to revive traditional Chinese animation is materializing in his project A Fishboy's Story: Tortoise form the Sea, an animated film featuring Chinese papercutting techniques that he hopes will go on the big screen next year.

In the film Zhang's team has used computers to replicate the texture and feel of paper-cut characters, and has set the story in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), telling how a young fisherman overcomes his fear of water and of his adventure with a huge tortoise.

Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美一级毛片无遮挡 | 黄色18网站 | 女人张开腿让男人桶免费网站 | 亚洲国产成人精品激情 | 欧美日韩亚洲视频 | 2022麻豆福利午夜久久 | 日本一级毛片免费播放 | 一区二区三区免费精品视频 | 无毛片| 亚洲精品美女国产一区 | 一级片免费在线播放 | 久久国产免费观看精品1 | 国产日韩精品欧美一区视频 | 久久99国产精品 | 韩国美女一区二区 | 久久99国产亚洲精品观看 | 国产一区二区三区精品视频 | 各种偷拍盗摄视频在线观看 | 国产人成亚洲第一网站在线播放 | 亚洲精品午夜一区二区在线观看 | 米奇久久| 精品国产欧美一区二区最新 | 国产日韩欧美另类 | 亚洲第一免费视频 | 国产亚洲人成网站在线观看不卡 | 97精品国产福利一区二区三区 | www.欧美成人 | 欧美成人在线免费观看 | 欧美三级香港三级日本三级 | 欧美日韩综合高清一区二区 | 白云精品视频国产专区 | 欧美一区二区三区在观看 | 中国精品视频一区二区三区 | 国产精品黄网站免费进入 | 欧美三级 欧美一级 | 在线免费观看欧美 | 欧美日韩免费一区二区在线观看 | a级日韩乱理伦片在线观看 a级特黄毛片免费观看 | 日本亚欧乱色视频在线观看 | 亚洲国产精品久久久天堂 | 午夜视频一区二区三区 |