Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
    Culture
    Home / Culture / Film and TV

    Chinese animators help Disney's 'Raya and the Last Dragon' soar

    Xinhua | Updated: 2021-03-06 17:26
    Share
    Share - WeChat
    "Raya and the Last Dragon" is an animated action-adventure film inspired by Southeast Asian culture.[Photo/Mtime]

    "We pay attention to what they eat, all the ingredients, and how they cook them, what clothes they wear, how parents and children interact ... It's very different from the West," Huang explained.

    Tong mentioned other cultural differences, like how Asians use body language and honorary titles to show respect for their elders and proper behavior in their spiritual places like temples.

    "During the making of this film, I and my Asian colleagues had chance to share our culture with American colleagues, and eventually with audiences all over the world," commented Tong, who enjoys the multicultural environment in Disney and the company's belief that artists from different backgrounds can give more depth to their films and spark more creative exchanges.

    "Besides proving yourself individually as an artist, as a Chinese person, you try to work even harder to be a good representative of your culture."

    "My Chinese background helped me a lot," Huang told Xinhua. "I was raised in China and came to the US when I was 18, so I had a personal understanding of Asian culture to offer the research team and it was such an honor to be a part of it," he added.

    Tong was inspired by the dragon element. As a kid growing up in Chinese culture steeped in dragon lore, she told Xinhua that ancient dragon stories already lived vividly in her imagination. "That gave me inspiration to create my dragon effects ... in the water, flying in the sky, in the clouds," she explained.

    Huang's team created five distinct lands for Raya, each with their own unique environments and look, which corresponded to different parts of a dragon.

    "Our environment team was able to help to elevate the film to a hyper-realistic and believable level," he explained by combining realistic environments references from Southeast Asia with Disney's famed "secret sauce" of fantasy elements that makes their films so popular with audiences all over the world.

    "Details are important, they help people relate better to the story and characters," Huang explained.

    Both Huang and Tong are among 2019 Visual Effects Society Award nominees. They are volunteers of Disney's US-China Animation Bootcamp, where top Chinese animators and producers visit Disney's headquarters in Burbank, California, to exchange ideas and learn Disney's cutting edge creative and administrative processes and workflow.

    Huang, who aspires to direct his own animated film for Disney one day, was a volunteer translator and instructor at the bootcamp, while Tong, a member of the international Visual Effects Society, was a bootcamp attendee. They both praised the opportunity it provided to build cross-cultural bridges and fruitful collaborations.

    "All the Chinese animators who attended learned a lot from Disney and we learned from them too," Huang told Xinhua.

    "I have been attending the Chinese filmmaker seminar since the first year, it was really fun. It not only gave Chinese filmmakers a chance to see how Disney produces movies, but also gave filmmakers here a window to see how Chinese movie industry is doing," said Tong, noting that Chinese film industry has been developing a lot in the past 10 years and Chinese filmmakers have their own way of telling a story.

    "However, those trips gave Chinese filmmaker a way to see the latest computer-generated technology and how it can be used in their own productions," she added.

    |<< Previous 1 2   
    Most Popular
    Top
    BACK TO THE TOP
    English
    Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
    License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

    Registration Number: 130349
    FOLLOW US
    国产av无码专区亚洲av果冻传媒 | 无码不卡av东京热毛片| 亚洲日韩精品无码专区网址 | 99久久无码一区人妻a黑| 午夜视频在线观看www中文| 久久久无码精品亚洲日韩按摩 | 中文字幕精品无码一区二区 | 亚洲毛片av日韩av无码| 亚洲av永久无码精品表情包| 中文字幕在线观看| 在线看福利中文影院| 成在线人免费无码高潮喷水| 亚洲日韩乱码中文无码蜜桃臀网站 | 最近的中文字幕在线看视频| 国产精品无码成人午夜电影| 亚洲啪啪AV无码片| 自拍中文精品无码| 最近2018中文字幕在线高清下载| 中文无码精品一区二区三区| 免费A级毛片无码A∨中文字幕下载 | 中文字幕VA一区二区三区| 国产亚洲人成无码网在线观看| 人妻系列AV无码专区| 人妻少妇精品视中文字幕国语| 久久精品无码一区二区无码| 国产网红主播无码精品| 亚洲va中文字幕无码| 精品久久久久久中文字幕| 综合国产在线观看无码| 国产精品无码专区在线观看| 男人的天堂无码动漫AV| 无码中文人妻在线一区二区三区 | 中文字幕久久精品无码| 中文字幕亚洲欧美日韩2019| 最新中文字幕AV无码不卡| 亚洲最大av无码网址| 人妻一区二区三区无码精品一区| 国产精品99无码一区二区| 爽到高潮无码视频在线观看| 成?∨人片在线观看无码| 国产精品无码素人福利不卡|