China's first 3-D feature film

El mundo les esta quedando chico a los chinos. Ahora tratando de entrar al mundo de la animación digital...


y el proyecto tienen buenos socios:




Early next year, Global Digital Creations Holdings, a fledgling animation studio that has mostly labored in anonymity, is aiming for the big time with the worldwide release of its first 3-D feature film, "Thru the Moebius Strip," a science-fiction adventure about a determined boy's time travel to another galaxy to rescue his stranded father.

France's most famous comics artist, Jean Giraud, whose nom de plume is Moebius, came up with the story, which draws on elements of Jack and the Beanstalk and the breadth of science-fiction history from Jules Verne to "The Matrix," and joined with GDC to develop it. Moebius, who broke new ground in comics art in the 1970s with his magazine Metal Hurlant, the precursor to the American publication Heavy Metal, had worked on effects-heavy films like "Tron," "Alien," "The Abyss" and "The Fifth Element."

Frank Foster, former vice president for multimedia at Sony Pictures Imageworks, is also on board as one of the producers, and Glenn Chaika, who was an effects animator on "The Little Mermaid" and directed "Tom Thumb and Thumbelina," is the director. Dazzling color, three-dimensional imagery and fast-paced drama were on display during a recent screening of several minutes of film at the studio here in what was a mere fishing village on the edge of Hong Kong as recently as 1979. It has since grown into one of China's biggest, richest and most modern cities, the hottest hot spot of Chinese capitalism.

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