China the next animation leader?

Thanks for the tip off Joe,

We ran in to these guys after hearing that they won 3 Golden Panda Animation Awards in Sichun China, this year. Their work reel was very impressive man, 2d, 3d, flash you name and it was really good stuff, not the usual chines stuff we had seen again and again.

We were looking for a 2D studio, it seems there is almost none left. We saw the Sandman Animation Studio in Suzhou and we were blown away with what they were producing. They have a football movie going on and a panda show, holy cow, these guys are top notch.

we will definately be doing our 2D work with these guys........china is growing up very fast

Thanks again Joe,

Max Thomas,

We did a tour to find a good animation studio, and were overly impressed with Sandman Animation Studio, in Suzhou, China.

It is a very impressive studio and set up as well as any studio I have worked on back home. It is run by a western animation director, Kieron Seamons and they have produced many shows for the USA and Europe as well as producing their own quality animation shows for china.

Last time we talked they had won 3 awards for the work. I would very seriously recommend them if you are looking for a chinese quality animation studio.

Their site is www.sandman.me

Joe

It is difficult to say when China can be the animator leaders, but i visited that Zhongnan animation company one year ago, very impressive. they showed me a few un-released copies, some of them are really good (creative and presentable). But they do need to find some real good interpretors to translate them into English. As far as i remember, The owner has a young daughter who studied aboard before, is now fully devoted herself in this animation business.

Well, FWIW, most animation houses are just sweatshops for animators to crank out volume and not creativity anyhow right? thus the attractiveness of doing it here in China I suppose... just another factory mentality. But I suppose fledgling industries have to start somewhere.

> China is on course to join Japan and the US as a leader

> in the art of animation.

Amusing statement, at best.

Agree 100% with the prior two comments - China may be able to churn out higher quantities of raw materials, but almost assured to be incapable of competing on the level of quality.

Not much different than the plethora of cartoons (back then, hand drawn) from the Soviet Union, though those probably still had higher style and originality :-)

Quantity? Sure. Quality? Forget about it. As with pretty much everything else.

Except Chinese cartoons are either empty and boring (and thus Chinese kids love US and Japanese cartoons) or have some dark political motivation ("Little Hero).