Chinese Animation ‘Jinsha’ ①



Jinsha of 2006 the 1st animation themed by Jinsha, is the 1st aboriginal animated work penetrated with Chengdu culture. Jinsha, representative of Chengdu, is promoted towards the youth in a more fashionable way—through TV and Internet. The One Studio cooperated with Sinodoor Cartoon Company on Jinsha, being responsible for composing background music of the animation. It tells a miserable love story between Chi and Bi through war and revenge. This animation is legacy of ancient Shu with traditional Chinese culture. After a close study of the play, we chose modern orchestration, and mixed sounds to create its OST. During manufacturing process, we employed Irish flute, Indian instruments, and even human’s voice besides orchestration and piano. Although Chinese traditional instruments were hardly applied (only minutes of two-stringed bowed instrument), the background music is a perfect embodiment of the theme. The animation adds up to 26 minutes without human dubbings,23 of which is accompanied with background music. Two primary melodies, standing for War and Love, tremendously impress the audience from the beginning to the end with varieties and differences. Moreover, the whole project was done within only 23 days. The finished audio effect and video pictures are quite complementary to each other. In this sense, Jinsha is one of the most successful projects we’ve ever done. ========================================= The One Studio, affiliated to The One Music, is operated by

9 Responses

  1. timfidotru Says:

    @Bioloser

    The style, of course. The classical chinese cartoons are made in a different technique, while the some modern Chinese animation was influenced by Jap anime tradition.

  2. Bioloser Says:

    What qualifies something as “Japanesey”? If you mean by the depiction of the characters, I don’t think that would be a problem since Chinese and Japanese look almost alike.

  3. abcelu Says:

    I think both music and animation is very Japanesey

  4. PrettyMami21 Says:

    great music!

  5. kodakumidiva Says:

    perfect!!!!!!!!

  6. LivelyLorikeet Says:

    I like a lot of older Chinese animations, but many of the recent ones have a very generic style–too much like anime.

  7. S1587915G Says:

    Some of the scenes are not bad, but the music is too Western (and sappy/sentimental) and the animation too Japanese in style.

  8. bamfyfe Says:

    nope. . . but i lov this kind of music. . . im lookin for a page. . . with many diffrent background musics. . . cuz i need good background music for the videos i wanna make

  9. km1848 Says:

    That is magnificent. Anyone knows what the music is?

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