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[大武汉国际脉动]Ciff:“烹出”汉产动漫国际味儿

发布时间: 2013-12-15 23:46   来源: 荆楚网   进入电子报

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  [The International Style Of Wuhan]Ciff: Wuhan-made Animation on the way

  "My dream is to make Wudang Mountain and the story of Zhang Sanfeng into animated films for oversea audience, " said Ciff Garbutt, art director of Wuhan Digital Media Technology, Co., Ltd. (hereafter refer to Wuhan Digital Media).

  Ciff, 57, is from Vancouver, Canada and his wife is from Wuhan. He has over 20 years of experience in digital cartoon producing experience. He won two session of international "Emmy Award" and was also rated as outstanding Canadian figure. As the world top cartoon master, he undertook the game director of Disney Princess Snow White children's game as well as the game director of Toy Story and Finding Nemo.

  Ciff decided to come to China for his career in 2006 and finally joined Wuhan Digital Media, a joint-venture by Huazhong Normal University and Optics Valley, after investigation in cities as Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Nanjing, etc. Ciff is confident in Wuhan's development prosperity and stayed in the city for seven years.

  Animators in foreign countries follow the projects instead of a company while they are stick to a company in China which can provide better trainings to the team members. Ciff brought world advanced animation films materials more international 3D animation concepts.

  "It is key to understand foreigners' habits for Wuhan-made animation’s globalization. For example, people in United States barely watch non English movies, " Ciff said. The rich wealth of China historical culture, coupled with the world advanced producing concept will produce excellent animations.

  "I have English version of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and traditional Chinese poems as I really like Chinese history and culture, " Ciff said. He has worked with Chinese animation teams for some famous films and hoped to produce Wuhan-made films as Toy Story.

  In 7 years, Ciff has a new career in Wuhan and met his Mrs. Right. "I have a girl friend and will soon get married. I just bought a suite in Wuhan has to pay for the mortgage every month, " Ciff said.

  There are more and more bridges in Wuhan with broader road and faster development, which makes Ciff's determination to stay. He said Wuhan has excellent animation teams and advanced technology which meet the international top standard.

  Statistics show that since 2012, the number of original animation teams in Wuhan has reached 150 with 10, 000 working staff and more than 20 universities offered animation professional courses. The time of original animation film production reached more than 130, 000 minutes just in 2012. Wuhan-made animation has opened international markets and won international awards. By 2016 the number of Wuhan cartoon enterprises will reach 300 with the annual output value of 30 billion Yuan (US$5million).

  Ciff has visited Huashan Mountain, Wudang Mountain, and Three Gorges Dam. He wants to do most now is to make more China historic theme animation movies and promote team overseas. "I will produce animation movies with the theme of Wudang Mountain and Zhang Sanfeng to dissemination of Daoism culture, " Ciff said.

(本文来源:荆楚网 编辑:赵志刚)
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