The paper cut animation Chinese New Year, based on the story of “Nian” (Year Monster), presents the cultural background of the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), that is, ringing in a new year, ...

Born in California, raised and educated in Colorado, Silas studied at CU in the 1990s but decided against a direct path to ...

Constructing a world of paper cutouts and sculptures, Kitada and Tsuchiya worked remotely to make the experimental short film, never meeting in person due to their geographic distance. Tsuchiya would ...

Because it adhered to Chinese aesthetic heritage, early Chinese animation was a huge hit. As a result, the first Chinese cartoons were considered artistic films as well. There are four distinct styles ...

In fact, the secret of ink wash animation lies in the photography process. Each character or animal, drawn on the animation paper, must be colored in layers. For example, even for the same water ...

Atsushi Okui, director of animation photography on “The Boy and the Heron” and a longtime Studio Ghibli cinematographer, said in an interview that the studio regards C.G.I. as “a ...

With “Wish,” Disney Animation celebrates its 100th anniversary by merging the 2D legacy of watercolor background paintings (dating back to “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”) with cutting ...