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

    Xinhua | Updated: 2021-03-06 17:26
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    "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.

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