'Thru the Moebius Strip' trailer and more stills

When I think of places with a strong animation industry, China does not come to mind. There is hardy any from China, atleast to my knowledge. Lets hope this film would pave the way for more future projects in China. I'm all for it if it means getting to see original grown in China animation.

Quicktime trailers could be seen throught the movie web site without password needs: http://www.moebiusstrip.net/html/trailer.htm

Looks good.

There's quite a lot of animation from China, but its just not well known in the west and no subbed disks are available.
A fair amount is available on DVD in Japan, namely the two disks featuring works from Shanghai Animation studios (which was actually established by the Japanese animator Tadahito Mochinaga):
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B000060NEM/503-5152225-3564703?v=glance&n=561958&tagActionCode=gamedevsite-22
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000060NEN/gamedevsite-22/503-5152225-3564703

But your best bet is to get hold of the 40th anniversary disk of UPROAR IN HEAVEN, which features a really beautiful 1965 version of the JOURNEY TO THE WEST tale, and a really interesting earlier version from the 40s. I got it for about $5 last year. (Sorry, I cant find the link to this anywhere)

But China has definitely got a really rich and beautiful animation heritage. I dont know much about it, but what I have seen I've been really entranced by.

Great, they've learned the wrong spelling for Through. Thanks, Yanks.

I agree also... I have viewed Shanghai animation studios work over the years. It's beautiful work, espeically its paper cut out pieces. However for me this film fails as a level of style. The renderings are poorly outdated and resemble as higher-grade "Reboot" episode. Perhaps the story will be enough to hold, but honestly for me Moebius' style and storytelling are one and the same. To demeen his visuals with such unpolished finishes is quite a shame. It could have been interesting if they had tried an approach like "Azur et Asmar" where the 3d design mimmicked the illustration rather than use the designs as just mere reference.

I look at Mobius's goregous concept art. I look at the stills from the end result. I think about how amazing this could have been in 2D animation. Look at the trailer for ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS again: that was largely done by Chinese animators who could have theoretically been working on this project instead. It looks really good - unlike this. Makes me sad - this is a real waste of an opportunity. 3D rendered CGI is a tool. Sometimes it's the right tool for the job. Often it's not. It certainly isn't in this case.