ABSTRACT
Developments happen fast, sometimes in a matter of seconds, on the verge of social virtualization. In February 2018, the Berlin International Film Festival for the first time in its history opened with a stop-motion entry: Isle of the Dogs. The real star of Rudolph, however, was an Asian animation director who was respected in Japan as well as in China. As an art school student in Tokyo, Mochinaga Tadahito devoted his time to studying the techniques of animated filmmaking. His graduate work, in 1938, was a short film: How to Make Animated Films. Fang Ming, however, would stay and instruct the Chinese filmmakers in 2D and 3D animation before he returned to Japan and associated with Arthur Rankin, Jr., and Jules Bass. In 1945, accompanied by his faithful wife Ayako, he returned to Manchuria. In Changchun, he was asked to join the art department of Man-Ei, with 2000 employees the largest film studio in Asia.
