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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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