Chinese Brushstrokes

Thanks to the YouTube channel Obscure Animation, I am very happy to showcase for the first time

 a video from China. And a lovely one it is, too. This award winning 1960 short was the earliest example

 of brush painting animation. It was produced at Shanghai Animation Film Studio, and co-directed

 by Tang Cheng and Te Wei, who is also generally credited with inventing the technique.

The watercolor paintings of Qi Baishi inspired this unique approach to animation, which was reprised 

three years later in The Buffalo Boy's Flute. After a decade of Cultural Revolution

 had all but destroyed the Chinese animation industry, Te Wei utilized again the technique

 for his 1988 masterpiece Feeling from Mountain and Water. Hopefully this is the first

of many new interesting eastern discoveries...