Vietnamese animation
animation from Vietnam
Vietnamese animation, known in Vietnamese as Hoạt hình Việt Nam (lit. Vietnamese Cartoon), or Hoạt họa Việt Nam (lit. Vietnamese Animation), is a term to describe animation films (hand-drawn and computer-generated) which originates from Vietnam.
History
Background
In the past, if a feature film of average length was produced, projected on a wide screen for about an hour and a half (meaning the film had to be 2,100 to 2,500 meters long), it would take at least 8 to 12 months. Meanwhile, producing an animation with a length of about one to two rolls (i.e 280 to 500m), would also take 8 to 12 months. If it was supported by advanced equipment and commercially oriented management methods, the amount of times it take can be shortened to 1 to 3 months. Thus, in addition to the different characteristics of the production process of the two film genres, and the different requirements for capital and support equipment, it shows that animated films in Vietnam was difficult to produce.
Vietnamese animation began in 1959 when Vietnam Animation Studio was formed by a group of young animators (Ngô Mạnh Lân, Lê Minh Hiền, Hồ Quảng, Trương Qua...). They were educated in the Soviet Union.
1959–1975
The first Vietnamese animation was Đáng đời thằng Cáo (The Welldeserved Fox) based on a poem called Con cáo và tổ ong (The fox and the beehive) produced in 1959, with a length of 300 meters, it was the first film of the Vietnamese animation industry.
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