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Blender Institute ANIMATION Global ANIMATION BLENDER 2.8 THE GAME-CHANGING TOOLS | SPECIAL SECTION: ANNECY 2019 MAGAZINE © JUNE 2019 © BLENDER INSTITUTE "SPRING" A POETIC FANTASY SHORT FILM DREAMERS STUDIO THE BIGGEST ANIMATION FILMS DISTRIBUTOR IN CHINA LIGHT CHASER ANIMATION STUDIO WHITE SNAKE – A CHINESE ANIMATION EPIC TON ROOSENDAAL – FOUNDER OF BLENDER VISIONARY, FILM-MAKER AND SOFTWARE GENIUS JUNE 2019 ® Blender Cloud Join the production platform used daily by a world-class team of artists and developers Join us for only $9.99/month! Courses & Tutorials Libraries In-depth training on character modeling, 2D HDR images up to 16K and 24 EVs. animation, sculpting, 3D printing, rigging, +1500 High quality textures. VFX and more. Production quality characters. Open-movies Services All the production files, assets, artwork Production-management software for from 12 open-movies your film, game, or commercial projects. Plus never-seen-before content. Render farm software. Visit cloud.blender.org June 2019 2 ANIMATION Global Magazine Blender Cloud is the creative hub for your projects, powered by Free and Open Source Software. ANiMATION GLOBAL© MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 • SPECIAL ANNECY EDITION 5 Publisher’s Letter 6 SPRING a poetic SPECIAL SECTION: fantasy short film produced by the Blender ANNECY 2019 Institute 15 Festival International Du Film D’Animation D’Annecy 16 Annecy Goes to Cannes 42 Taking Indian Animation to the World 17 Japanese Animation is in the 45 Dreamers Studio the spotlight largest animation film distributor in China 18 The Marché du Film and the Annecy 48 Silkroad define your Festival have created horizon with digital visual Animation Day experience 50 Dingjunshan China is opening up its DMOD 30 Pandaland: market Pandamonium 54 Jucheng Cultural 32 Simage Animation Creative: How Animation and Media Ltd Technology Applies to 10 Blender 2.8 Culture & Tourism 56 CaCa Animation ® Kingdom seeking IP for theme parks 12 Interview with Ton Roosendaal 20 Old Story Gets New 34 What is the creative Twist: White Snake method for advancing Japanese animation 24 BlueArc is celebrating globally? its 16th years 58 AnimationNow® 36 RASF brings Russian real time interactive 26 Sichuan Hongyao animation to the world animation at its best Culture a Chinese panda lifts an IP world 38 POP Culture meets 60 Empyreal CineStage Asian storytelling 28 Dragon Monster 63 CGGE building a brings traditional Chinese 40 Meet Giggle Garage bridge linking talents and culture to schoolchildren Studio resources www.awnchina.cn 3 June 2019 June 2019 4 ANIMATION Global Magazine PUBLISHER’S LETTER ANiMATION © very year our industry get together in Annecy to celebrate the Annecy GLOBAL Animation Festival. Animators, MAGAZINE producers, artists, media, students JUNE 2019 - SPECIAL ANNECY EDITION from all over the world come to Annecy to view exciting new EDITOR IN CHIEF projects, explore collaboration opportunities, RAYMOND D. NEOH Eparticipate in conferences, and see new ideas and meet with aspiring young talents. EDITOR AT LARGE SOPHIA ZHU The objective of this magazine is to give those ASSOCIATE EDITOR upcoming studios, artists, tools makers, pro- PAN QIAO YUN ducers and people in our industry a medium to CONTRIBUTING WRITERS get their works and voice seen and heard. This RAYMOND D. NEOH magazine dedicates to the animation community in the 2 biggest markets of the SOPHIA ZHU world, the English and Chinese civilization in our time. PAN QIAO YUN WAYNE KENNEDY In this Annecy issue, we would like to feature Blender 2.8: the game-changing tools ARJUN MADHAVAN for artists, animators, VFX people, compositors and producers, an open source soft- NADIA FADEEVA ware created by people in the industry, supported and funded by the users. What it means for our industry globally. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS (China) JUSTIN JIANG I first met with Mr. Ton Roosendaal last year at the Blender Institute in Amsterdam. YANG JUNJIE His life long goal and passion is to bring on a world-class tool-set to the industry. In EMMA WU Ton's own words, every artist should have his/her own tools to create and produce. SOPHIA ZHU Like a chef who always carries his/her own tools to the kitchen. Please see the inter- XU FAN view I had with Mr. Ton Rossendaal on pages 12 & 13. ADVERTISING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PAN QIAO YUN Our feature article is the short film “Spring” created by the Blender Institute funded RAYMOND D. NEOH by the Blender Cloud. This film uniquely demonstrated the capability of Blender as ADVERTISING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT a tool, and also opened up all the production process, materials, techniques through (China) Blender Cloud to show people how the film was being made. Not just a few “how EVEN CHAN to” shots, but the complete process from concept to finished product on the Blender PAN QIAO YUN Cloud for people to download, to study and to learn. SOPHIA ZHU PRODUCTION China is opening up its market for global animation, we want to introduce to our ROCK N POP GRAPHIX readers the largest animation films distributor in China, Dreamers Studio, whom is planning to enter into the TV series production and distribution. If you or your PRINTING company are looking into entering this market, and need a partner or advise, please A-GOAL PRINTING CO., LTD. read the article on Dreamers Studio and DJS-Global. Or contact us at info@cgge. CG GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT LTD. media. Room 414 InnoCentre, 72 Tat Chee Avenue, As usual, we want to feature studios around the world, show you their great work Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong done, and their exciting up coming projects which fuel our industry. (852) 2111 1097 www.cggemedia.com Enjoy and hope you can get something out from this Annecy issue of our magazine. SPECIAL THANKS Annecy Press Department Russian Animated Film Association Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore MDEC Malaysia All rights reserved. No part of the periodical may be repro- duced without the prior consent of CG Global Entertainment Publisher Ltd. Raymond D. Neoh The copyrights and trademarks of images featured herein are the property of their respective owners. ANIMATION Global Magazine acknowledges the creators and copyright holders of the materials mentioned herein, and does not seek to infringe on those rights. www.awnchina.cn 5 June 2019 A POETIC FANTASY SHORT FILM PRODUCED BY THE BLENDER INSTITUTE June 2019 6 ANIMATION Global Magazine BY PAN QIAOYUN, Making of “Spring” is not just a col- techniques are available on the Blender RAYMOND D. NEOH laboration project that involves artists, Cloud for people to download, to view, modelers, animators, technical support to study and to learn. A real open t is difficult to write about people, programmers, directors, writer, source project which opens all aspects an animation project because music and folio, VFX and compositors. to whoever wants to learn or join our animation is about motion and What impressed us most are the tools industry. sound but printed medium can used. They are all open source soft- only express 2 dimension object. wares, with GIMP and Krita for draw- “Spring” beautifully demonstrated the You need to see the actual work ing of the concept art, and Blender 2.8 many new features available in Blender to appreciate the effort, the time, the for modeling, rigging, cloth, hair, VFX, 2.8 “Blender Cloud-Spring” folders. Itechnology and the love that go into and compositing. A software demon- And more significantly, all the tools and making an animation film, stration feast that can only be accom- tutorial and how to techniques are free. no matter how long or plished by people technically savvy It is a game-changing way to make CG short. Scan the QR Code with the love of animation. animated film. and we will take you there. This article shoots to do justice to So sit back, relax and enjoy the beauti- the people whom had dedicated their ful artworks now…… time and effort to bring us this film. What makes “Spring” so unique is all Please support the Blender Cloud the concept arts, digital assets, and https://cloud.blender.orgaudience. www.awnchina.cn 7 June 2019 ® ABOUT BLENDER INSTITUTE In 2007 Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal estab- lished the “Blender Institute” fol- lowing the overwhelming success of “Elephants Dream”,the world’s first open movie project. This is now the permanent office and studio to more efficiently organize the Blender Foundation goals, and especially to coordinate and facili- tate Open Projects related to 3D movies, games or visual effects. The company currently employs 15 full time staffs. The new office in Amsterdam houses offices for administration, developers, a store, a render farm and test lab, a class room, space for work- shops/sprints and a large studio for artists to work on animation film productions. June 2019 8 ANIMATION Global Magazine THE BLENDER “SPRING” PROJECT “Spring is the story of a shepherd girl SPRING IS CREATED BY: and her dog, who face ancient spirits • Director: Andy Goralczyk in order to continue the cycle of life.” • Producer: Francesco Siddi “This poetic and visually stunning • Executive producer: short film was written and directed by Ton Roosendaal Andy Goralczyk, inspired by his child- • Music: Torin Borrowdale hood in the mountains of Germany.” • Sound: Sander Houtman • Concept art: David Revoy The team used the development version • Animation director: of Blender 2.8 for the entire produc- Hjalti Hjalmarsson tion, before the version was in official • Modeling and shading: Beta. “As for all of Blender's Open Julien Kaspar Movies, the entire production process and all its source files are being shared Everything was made with on the production platform Blender Blender 2.8, GIMP and Krita Cloud.” www.awnchina.cn 9 June 2019 BLENDER® 2.8 BY GUO HUA real-time rendering Eevee, Blender 2.8 Here is some significance you should makes a solid challenger for traditional know about Blender 2.8: ith eminent release 3D tools such as Maya and 3D Max.
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