Many successful Vietnamese animations have been able to attract viewers when the COVID-19 pandemic forced people will stay home.
From scriptwriting to post-production and tubing on video streaming platforms, the animation industry has grown exponentially in the Southeast Asian nation.
Global statistics suggest 90% of A television animation in the United States is produced in Asia where Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia are leaders in Industry. In 2018, the Asian animation industry was valued at $52 billion.
In particular, the animation industry in Vietnam saw expansion by gaining approval for 16 films from the Cinema department of Ministry of Culture of Vietnam for distribution, according to a Vietnam News Service report.
Viet Nam Cartoon Studio – under the aegis of Viet Nam Cartoon Joint Stock Company – last year produced three historical animated films: “Heroines”, “The Battle on Bach Dang River” and “Emperor Dai Hanh”.
Each 30-minute film featured superb content and visual effects due to their various fashions like 2D, 3D or computer- generated paper cut.
The three films tell the events leading to the Vietnam War against China thousands of years ago.
“Although historic in natural designers broke up out of the dry and conventional narration of former factbased on stories. Figures of history come to life vividly, while their inner personalities have been painstakingly explored to former a new style of Vietnamese animation, different from anything the country cinema industry has never produced before,” the report said, adding that the Southeast nation “is set for a golden period of animation.”
The company was mandated by the government to explore topics such as national historyfairy tales, environment or philosophy.
Win many prizes
Pham Thanh Ha, head of the scenario department of Vietnam Cartoon Company, said the achievements of industry have resulted from “constant efforts in improve quality of animation, the personnel and the artists of studio.”
According to the head writer, the studio adjusted its manufacture and business plans due to the pandemic.
“Thanks to the efforts in in recent years we have created unique features for Vietnamese cartoons with beautiful images, smooth movements, fresh colors, rich content which is close to modern children’s lives while preserving the typical Vietnamese innocence, simple and pure characteristics,” said Ha.
“A of successes of the studio in the past years presents films at the public via various means of communications, including central and local TV channels, pay TV channels and above all, social networks. We launched and effectively managed our official channel on YouTube”, he added.
High-end manufacturing of Vietnamese animation industry also brought home rewards for their quality and success.
At the 22nd Viet Nam Film Festival, “The Wooden Birds” won gold while “The Master of eternity” and “The light that never goes out” won silver medals.
During the Animation Contest 2021 hosted by Korea Content Creation Agency and Korea Cultural Center, “Eternal Flame” and “Red Nosed Cat Warrior” won the first and second price.
the success of the animation industry saw Vietnam’s Cartoon YouTube channel attract nearly 600,000 subscribers and nearly 200 millions views since son launch in June 2018.
“In addition to complying with pandemic prevention measures, Vietnam Cartoon Company still had to stick to its production schedule in so as not to delay the publication of overlapping films or production stages, which could affect the quality of the film,” Ha said.
“In-person film screenings at cinema of the studio, mobile projections as well as direct interaction with the public which aims to motivate and inspire animation artists has all been downplayed, unfortunately,” he said. added.
