ZSTU students won gold at the 5th National College Original Animation Contest

Search , a stop-animation created by Wu Zhijing and his team from the Animation Department, the Arts and Design College of ZSTU won the gold medal of the Motion Graphics Group at the 5^th National College Original Animation Contest. His fellow student Lian Hanghui and his team won the Special Judge Award with their work Summer Night of the same Group. Their instructor, Mr. Cheng Feng was awarded the Best Instructor.

This year s contest was sponsored by the Organizing Committee of the China International Cartoon & Animation Festival and organized by the CPC Committee of the Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, the People s Government of the Tianhe District, the Nanfang Publishing & Media Group, and the China Software Industry Base (Guangzhou). The slogan for this year is: Hand in Hand: have a dream and start a business. Carrying on its principle of inspiring original creation and digging up talents , the contest integrates the creation, the talents and the market to help college graduates start their own animation businesses and to find excellent potential original animators for China s cartoon and animation industry as well.

It is reported that the winners of this year s contest represent the top level of current China s artistic animation in terms of the artistic idea and the technical level. Both the exquisite and meaningful traditional Chinese ink painting and the modern American cartoon can find their traces in the entries. The idea is creative and the embodiment is near perfect. The gold medal winner Search , ethnic in style, adopts the traditional shadow art as its carrier. The character styles, the background design and the music selected all express the creators concern for the inheritance and development of the traditional arts. Summer Night won the unanimous favor of all the judges with its beautiful picture, moving plot and exquisite details.