Ink wash animation

Ink wash animation (Chinese: 水墨动画; pinyin: Shuǐmò dònghuà) is an animation style that is unique to China. This style combines both Chinese traditional aesthetics of Shui-mo and modern animation techniques.[1] It first appeared in 1961 with the first Chinese ink-wash animation Tadpoles Searching for Mother.[2] After the 1990s, film studios gradually gave up ink-wash animation production due to the high demand in cost and techniques.[3]

  1. ^ Du, Daisy Yan (May 2012). "National Style and National Identity: The Rise of Ink-Painting Animation in the Early 1960s," in On the Move: The Trans/national Animated Film in 1940s–1970s China. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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