More Shinkai-ish animation shorts from Chinese animators

Did I not say that budding Chinese animators have a weakness for Shinkai-ish animation? Click here to see a student project call A Story About a Girl's Life I discovered here. It has both Chinese and English subtitles.

The impact of Shinkai Makoto on the next generation of student animators in the PRC is really something to behold. Yes, it's a student project and it does have some rough edges. But the fact that even a student project comes with English subtitles is a statement of their international ambitions. I for one am looking forward to see what these young animators inspired by Shinkai will produce a few years down the road.

[Update: 15 June 2008]

Here is another example of Chinese animators taking Shinkai's animation style to heart. I just learned from AnimeSuki about 1/60．∞ - which looks to be an independent Taiwanese animation scheduled for release this year. You can watch the trailers on YouTube here and here.

I tried to Google for more info but unfortunately cannot learn more except that it is a story about a photographer. I will definitely be on the look out for more info and post them here though.

Comments

[Shina Luna]

Woah!!!

I really love 2nd love already, but this "A Story About a Girl's Life" is just as good.
I really love this piano melody.
But just where could I download it.
(Actually how did you capture these screenshots?)

For a student work this is really stunning. If you compare like what German people do...

The second one is really nice, too.
the idea to a photograph is pretty new to me, too.

As for them trying to immitate Shinkai - I agree, it's a good thing to behold.
As far as I can tell, it's a chinese tradition to copy your master towards perfection as the base of finding your own style.

And how did Konfuzius phrase it: Who copies his master, offers him respect.

[Wabisabi]

Shina Luna:

'2nd Life' is coming out in DVD - see my latest post.

You can take screen capture with most keyboards by pressing CTRL + Print Screen key. However, you have to paste to an image program individually in order to save it.

I use an image program called Irfanview. I can set the filename and where to save the files, and that I can make a series of screen captures in one go by pressing CTRL + Print Screen like mad. Google for it and let me know if you need help using it.

I agree about what you said about imitating Shinkai - it's a good place to start. The last I want to see is a crop of Chinese imitations of mainstream Japanese anime - with boobs, fanservice and all the rest of it. (I know I will probably get flamed speaking against boobs and fanservice - so be it. -___-)