Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Liu Bolin | Hiding in the City

SOURCE   bumbumbum - Click here to go to original post

Chinese artist Liu Bolin recently updated his work with more amazing camouflage art.

With a team of two assistants, Bolin paints onto his clothes and then spends hours positioning himself in front of backdrops until he’s virtually invisible. Like magic!















Via YAY/EVERYDAY!

Friday, May 13, 2011

Chinese master traditional animator Te Wei 1915 -2010

SOURCE   Academy of Art Animation Notes - Click to go to original post



(via Jerry Beck on CartoonBrew.com) --

'The master of Chinese animation, Te Wei (Sheng Tewei), has passed away at age 95.

Te Wei, a pioneering animator and cartoonist, was one of the founding fathers of the Shanghai Animation Studio. His most significant film of the 1950s was 'The Conceited General' .

In the 1960s his animation style was influenced by the painter Qi Baishi. His 1963 film , 'The Cowherd’s Flute' (Part 1 below), and his masterpiece 'Feeling from Mountain and Water' (1988) are two of the most beautiful animated films from China - or anywhere'

(watch the films full-screen)