chinese animation

[LightningDancer]

It is a very beautiful video, thank you so much for posting it ! I was wondering, what is the song at the beginning and the second song at 2:33 minutes in? Both beautiful, would love to find a place to download at least the second song. :) 

[wingspandesign]

Really nice!

[apollo2345]

Ahhhh..so beautiful and poetic.

[pruts2]

she speaks Chinese alright, but koi are originally Japanese

[yzyzyz325]

@pruts2 !!!! funny, just wikipedia it

[meixian65]

@pruts2 hmmm i read that it's not. from chinahistoryforum: "Koi were introduced to Japan with the invading Chinese""I suppose there could have been an emperor in Japan in AD 200 but IIRC, written records in Japan only started from 6th century to the 8th century." "Claim Number Two: The carp was from King Shoko of Ro". It's still a controversy, but it looks like it's not originally from japan. not even on wikipedia..

[MultiSinoda]

you swoon about japan china gets pissed off its the equivalent to swooning over france but italy get pissed off : D

[mymy826]

That is so beautiful. Watching that is so relaxing. I'm so proud of my culture! :)))

[urrQraivaTaOsso]

What is the name of the song that plays from 2:36?

[urrQraivaTaOsso]

Qual é o nome da música que toca a partir dos 2:36 ?

[alekx58]

zhuang ih fang bai jin yang schou ye hong hei bai huang san yang gua shi ih ting cong schang yuan cheng quan wu wen tao shi qing chi hong zue schi huang qiang zhi bi yuan lüe za zen bai san xin kshe da xia bai hu zhong huan xia ih fu jia ih zhi tong liu xia chin di hui khan pu ih kyang tai ping meng ci wo yen lao yen hua li schen ming fu fu li xia han quan zhong goa riu

[wsl2005777]

this is the best chinese one ever=_= i believe...

[nemo371994]

does anyone know what type of chinese music this is ?

[ANIMAUXDESSIN]

awesome!!! congratulation nice jop

[dlobrown8888]

This is amazing!

[saurabhCherished]

very beautiful and artistic.anybody knows name of the film?

[HazardCaroll2007]

中国应该多发展传统的水墨动画。。。太美了。。。

[darkwitch6779]

so beautifull!!!!

[violetkapurpurinova]

So beautiful !!!!

[86yimhj]

awesome

[DOSMania1988]

a CG that's made to look 2D....brilliant

[SailorKyoko]

its so beautiful :)

[fermoxal]

no mames es lo más chingona animación que he visto en mucho tiempo

[starlessartemis]

wow gorgeous

[mirekkrejci03]

dreamt of doing this stuff.., thats why i started maya.., great.., thought it was 2D until i saw the mesh!

[danielsull]

real nice

[PersonMix]

made me really calm :)

[longman718]

Its gorgeous. It just sooths my emotions and calms me to a happier mood.

[DonJuanDeMarco2]

I wonder if anyone can help me,

im looking for a 1981 classic cartoon by Zhou Kequin called 'Monkey fish for the moon'.

Im trying to find it on dvd or for download, but im not having much luck at the moment.

[capnbiggots]

I love zither music

[FINNmuse]

Wo ai Zhongguo!!

[Graymoths]

The reason China doesn't have a good stance in the entertainment industry, is because it doesn't intend to. Simply as that. China (as in Mainland) rather produces products to sell to the world than have celebrities. Which is why we see fewer Chinese entities in show bussiness.

[TRUEZFAN]

No, actually Chinese animation is just less popular and for the time being it doesn't have very solid ground.

[tangjkd]

@Graymoths What you said is exactly right. The philosophy behind the chinese film industry is exactly the opposite of hollywood's. Chinese make films in the sake of art, not for the purpose of making a billion dollars worldwide. Plus, the chinese culture promotes peace and harmony ... which most westerners would find it quite boring. Westerners are more attracted to hollywood type of films, which got sex and violence. But it is not really art when you compare to non western films.

[Ambiguity82]

@tangjkd I don't know about that in the current world setting, promoting peace and harmony. :( Wish it were true.

[12345Fok12345]

you've right! it is really beautifull. i love it!!

and the music is also very beautiful

[walescoast2coastusa]

so incredibly beautiful! the dragonfly! the fish!

[3u3ya]

gorgeous! soo beautiful... but the only thing I would change, is the soundtrack, a little bit slower and clamer melody in the middle of the video...

[qll030611223]

China should made more movies like this

[JustAPrayer]

AMAZING!

[chaukar]

beautiful

[good4we]

Loved the animation and the music. Thank you for posting.

Are there any more?

[pb3animator]

I like the animation. Thanks for posting.

[franchiser226]

innovative! something done in CG which has an organic feel just beautiful

[DjLiet]

Thank you for the video :) Very smart combination of traditional ink painting and selective abstraction !

[SuzanaIBC]

BEAUTIFUL...

[FSBspetsnaz]

The lady's appearance tells me she's from Tang Dynasty.

[pureLproductions]

Reminds me of Okami....Moving Art.

[knotbox]

YES

[jaimelabourgeoisie]

Low poly, i'm impressed

[sushigrrl]

Incredible.

[jupiterkingdom]

beautiful. I loved how it starts and end the same.

[brotherskaramazov]

kinda hollow..

[myslala]

it's really beautifull and highly unique!

unbelievable style for 3D animation.

this is impressive

[DarKris3]

that was very neat. i also liked in the end how the artists showed the 3D wireframes, and faded them into the final product.  Thanks for sharing!

[kone182]

nice. that is some nice shader software :p

[IntiRaymi]

looks like maya , maybe?

[Lausse666]

That's japanese....

[chichi711]

That's Chinese, thx.

[jerfherbert]

Lausse666=脑残

[Lausse666]

Sorry dude... don't know what 脑残 means.... could you translate?

[S1587915G]

It roughly means 'brain dead' or 'retarded'.

[Lausse666]

He can fuck his mother then...

[Lausse666]

Then " me cago en la puta madre que te pario cerote de alcantarilla, que te has de podrir en el mas oscuro infierno por mamon y cabron"

Hope you learn spanish asshole...

[tekemperor]

?  Dude it has Chinese written all over it...literally. Japan "borrowed" a lot of Kanji from the Chinese though, so I can understand the confusion.

[S1587915G]

The Chinese actually came up with a lot of wonderful things in the past, from which the Koreans and Japanese borrowed a greal deal. But the bloody Chinese communists destroyed a lot of those things in the name of some stupid utopian vision while the Japanese and Koreans preserved many of them instead, so that today we get the impression that japan and (South) Korea are more cultured than China.

[ffff214]

You totally underestimate the resilience of Chinese culture, which is well preserved in the massive documents written in Ancient Chinese. Chinese Culture is rooted with Chinese language, history and territory. Other nations may learn it but nobody can really take it away. and China is not a communist country at all.

[S1587915G]

It's one thing for a culture to be well-preserved in ancient documents, quite another for it to be something alive and vital and manifested in the daily lives of people. An Egyptian mummy is very well-preserved. But it's just a dead museum piece.

China may or may not be communist NOW, but my point is that when the Communists came to power they destroyed a great deal of China's old culture.

[ffff214]

The recovery of Chinese traditional culture is accompanied with the rise of Chinese economy as more people are looking for spiritual goal of their lives and traditional Chinese literature and way of living always provide them a soul land. Have you seen the new wave of learning Confucius works across China lately? Literature is not dead mummy but live guidance of life. CCP is becoming more mild and 'democratic' and westernized now.

[S1587915G]

While I won't deny that progress is being made, I think mainland China still has very far to go before her 'soft power' will be on a par with that of Japan and (South) Korea. I can't imagine China producing anytime soon a TV series as successful as Korea's 大长今 for example.

I don't see China being all that 'Confucian' or 'democratic' today, either. Would a 'Confucian' and 'democratic' nation allow for things like tainted milk powder?

[ffff214]

China's has more potential to develop its soft power in the long run, given its geographic size/market/ natural resources, a growing educated young population, and 5000 years of civilization, and an mildly evolving government. In terms of political status, China definitely has more weight than Japan and south Korea, given its seat in UN and cultural/historic influence in Asia. In terms of economic competitiveness, it has a long way to go even though it is the fourth largest economy.

[xuci111111]

Look you live in Singapore, and you probably don't even know a bit of China's 5000 years of history, not to mention how we live! So how can you lot presume so much about China when you don't even live there!

I think I speak for myself when I say I am a Chinese and I'm proud of it! You honestly think you know more about a country than its own countrymen?!

Slack off your own country all you like but don't criticise a place you probably never been to!

[S1587915G]

To xuci:

It's true I live in Singapore but I'm of Chinese descent and I've been reading Chinese all my life.

You can go around the West and see their books, websites etc for yourself. They all appreciate Japanese cultural products (anime etc) a whole lot more than Chinese. Sure, China has a rich history and culture, but what is China doing AT PRESENT to PROMOTE it? When will you produce something like 大长今 or KUNG FU PANDA? Even the animation here is produced in Taiwan and not China.

[xuci111111]

Yup I know

I terms of animation, I honestly admit, China suck, and we got a lot to catch up with Japanese anime, though I've seen a vid of a new 3D Chinese animation series, called "秦时明月" and it's very promising

China do have a lot of fascinating culture and history, but it isn't reaching out to everyone, one example is western kids are mesmerised in Final Fantasy, while China got an equally RPG series called 仙剑奇侠传, maybe you should try it

[S1587915G]

I would prefer that the Chinese come up with a different style of animation that is uniquely Chinese rather than an imitation of Japanese animation. The animation here should offer some clues.

There is a long Chinese fantasy epic titled蜀山剑侠, by还珠楼主. If it could be translated into (REALLY good) English and/or made (REALLY well) into a TV series or series of films, I'm sure 'The Lord of the Rings' will face some very serious competition.

[xuci111111]

Well yeah China should promote more of its culture outside China

[larirabbit87]

Hei!S1587915G, you still would like to seperate Taiwan and Mainland China? I'd rather believe you say this unintentionally, otherwise, as a Chinese descent there's only one word to describe you "汉奸！

[S1587915G]

If the Taiwanese people OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL wanted to be reunited with the mainland, I would wholeheartedly support it. But if they don't (and now many of them still don't, including Mr Ma Ying-Jeou), shouldn't China ask WHY? And shouldn't China look at HERSELF for a possible answer rather than continue blaming Taiwan?

[nismura]

it's still a long way to go, though...

[Lausse666]

thenks

[pinpoint654]

chinese chinese man... its alllll chinese ^^

[Lausse666]

It looked japanese to me... sorry

[Graymoths]

Most of Japanese culture is derived from Chinese culture especially from the Tang dynasty. The reason you said it looked "japanese" is because of the woman's dress, I assume. Because the Tang dynasty Hanfu is one of the Chinese dresses that influenced the Japanese Kimono and the Korean Hanbok.

[iiSimpliiJane]

i agreee with Graymoths.

[Lausse666]

Thanks for all the reply, and for the data!

[Kamikuru77]

@Graymoths Yeah but chinese suck, now a days, they steal everything. Have no idea what intellectual property is. Oh and they make faulty tires, toothpaste with antifreeze, lead toys, and pet food that kills your dog or cat. But I guess they do have a great socialist society what with their lack of freedom and a so called open market where price fixing and manipulation of stocks run rampant. It's sad to say but Japan = new and improved china. Same goes for Spain and mexico. Yay potable water!

[OnePeopleOneChina]

@Kamikuru77 If Japan claims to be the new and improved China, then do you not deny that Japan stole Chinese ideas? If you see yourself as superior, then you are claiming everyone else is inferior? That Japanese Government attitude caused the Rape of Nanjing - symbol for all of China! There is no people on Earth, victimized by warfare, that is not greedy! Those who were weaker and poorer than you are now stronger and richer than you. If you treated your neighbors well, you have nothing to fear!

[Graymoths]

@Kamikuru77 I hope you realized the things that China went through. It had to deal with the Japanese invasion, British trying to smuggle opium into its land, foreigners taking its land, civil wars, lack of reforms, warlordism, etc. The country you see today is a result of all that suffering. But wounds would heal, my friend. China is on the right path to becoming a superpower. If I am not mistaken, it had already surpassed Japan's economy early this year. Faster than expected by analysts.

[Glykimia]

@Graymoths Idk maybe i'm just being a dick and i've had a bad day, but to me, Anyone who mistook that dress as a Japanese attire OBVIOUSLY only gets their knowledge of Asian culture from well, idk, being in a sushi bar like 3 times in their life? I sort of hate how in historical art, anything beautiful is automatically assumed Japanese, this COMMONLY happens in western society.

[Graymoths]

@Glykimia True. There's definitely some bias in Western society, even though most of Japanese culture is derived from Chinese culture. I have to admit though, maybe the Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese are the ones who managed to preserve our ancient Chinese heritage because the Chinese today are mostly influenced by Qing dynasty culture. Some of us even think that the qipao is our traditional dress. It's depressing.

[shimowang]

amazing!

[sk1nz]

sweet animation

[SlaughteredKid]

As S1587915G has commented before, the lady is rather stiffed. It's kind of an opposite in that whole picture of movement. But the final product looks pretty good!

[sandeesws]

This is a wonderful example of animation! I really love this video - very well done and absolutely beautiful. :D

[S1587915G]

The lady kind of spoils the whole thing. She's too... wooden. Also, why the change to modern music towards the end?

I'd have awarded this 5 stars if not for the above.

[fashionablyunknown]

Gorgeous!!