Tag: cartoons

July 3, 2016 · 1 comment

Books: Animation in China

Books: Animation in China

By Jonathan Clements. Although the title of Sean Macdonald’s new book is Animation in China: history, aesthetics, media, it keeps largely to an account of the group of animators and facilities that formed the nucleus of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1957. He has plainly realised that a little coverage of the pre-war Wan […]

April 15, 2016 · 3 comments

The Cartoon Cutting Room

The Cartoon Cutting Room

Andrew Osmond on what’s chopped and changed in international animation. Recently on this blog, we reported on how DreamWorks’ new film Kung Fu Panda 3 had been re-animated for China, lip-synching the characters to the Mandarin-speaking actors. It’s a reminder that animation isn’t an unchanging, iconic medium; it’s malleable and fluid. Of course, the same […]

July 23, 2015 · 0 comments

Inside Out

Inside Out

By Andrew Osmond. Pixar’s new film, Inside Out, has had some localised changes in Japan, where it opened a week ago under the name Inside Head. In the English version, for example, there’s a gag that turns on kids’ dislike of the noble vegetable broccoli, which is rather popular in Japan. (Japan, remember, is the […]

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