Haven’t blogged substantively in ages because I’ve been up to my eyeballs in it in Beijing: consulting, speaking, teaching and tai-chi-ing. 
Hope to return to writing soon. In the meantime, there are a few pics here. See if you can figure out what the folks in the third photo down are doing, and how it relates to production. 
(Answers in my next post.)
Ramin Zahed, Editor-in-Chief of Animation Magazine, invited me to write a byline piece sharing my personal insights on the revolution in original Chinese animated content.
That an overzealous young proofreader “corrected” the reference of Russian live-action filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky to Russian animator Genndy Tartakovsky only goes to show the unexpected sources that contemporary Chinese animation directors draw upon.
Kevin Geiger
Beijing
I’m currently en route to Beijing, where I will be resident for the next year. I can only respond to urgent emails as I am able over the next couple of days, but hope to establish high-speed internet access ASAP for Skype calls and video conferences. Cheers!
Kevin Geiger
President & CEO
Animation Options LLC
EMAIL: kevingeiger@animationoptions.com
SKYPE: animationoptions
Karen Raugust has an article at Animation World Network (AWN) on the challenges facing the Chinese animation industry entitled, appropriately enough, “Challenges Ahead For China”. The article features some observations from moi, and makes mention of “Road To Home”, the Chinese animated feature that I am consulting on in Beijing.
The whirlwind world tour continues. Just returned from an onsite consultation in Israel, and am off to Australia and Taiwan in a couple of days for a three-week run of lectures, seminars and consultations.
My bags stay packed.
Just returned from the fmx08 conference in Stuttgart, where my presentation “CG Production Principles & Practices: Keeping Your Money On the Screen And Off The Floor” was well-received. Afterwards, one producer in the audience was inspired to say: “This presentation should be required viewing for every industry executive, producer and supervisor.”
I could not agree more.
Full report coming soon to the AO press page, but for now I’m off to an onsite consultation in Jerusalem. - KG
On business in Beijing.
I’ll be “off blog” for a couple weeks, but in contact at: kevingeiger@animationoptions.com
