Shanghaiist: China the next animation leader?

bamboos

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:20:02 +0800

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.

yu888

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:45:53 +0800

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.

DaffyDuck

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:07:11 +0800

> 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 :-)

WatchBagDVD

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:57:16 +0800

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

nanheyangrouchuan

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:24:03 +0800

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).