Animation industry in Japan and China
CMCI Asian Cultural Industries Seminar : “Animation industry in Japan and China: Insiders’ views”
Date: 18 March 2010
Venue and Time: please see below
“Understanding the Chinese Animation Industry: the nexus of media, geographies and policy”
Time: 3-4pm
Venue: K-1.56, King's Building, Strand Campus Speaker: Professor Leilei Li
This talk will introduce some of the most relevant aspects about the way the People’s Republic of China developed the comic and animation industry over recent decades. It will also cover the kind of roles and impacts media, geographies and related policy may play to or have on the development path of the Chinese animation industry.
Prof. Leilei Li teaches and researches at the College of Mass Communication, Shenzhen University. With support from the China Scholarship Commission, she is now an academic visitor in CMCI. Before that, she studied geography in Sun Yet-Sen University for her Bachelor’s degree and Beijing University for her Master’s and PhD. She has published books and papers on the image of tourist destinations as well as industrial heritage issues. Her current project is about cultural industries and creative clusters.
“Japanese animation as industry”
Time: 4-5pm
Venue: S-1.22, Strand Building, Strand CampusSpeaker: Mr Daisuke Okeda
In Japan, animation and related merchandising products compose an industry. The market size depends on surveys but we can estimate that it was £12~16.35 billion in 2008 and it has increased more than 1,900% within 30 years. However, the industry has suffered a recession during the past three years. Why did the anime industry develop at such a high speed, and what happened three years ago? What is ahead in the near future? Another issue is poor working conditions of animators whose number is less than 4000 and their low income (the average annual income of an assistant animator is less than £10,000). Why and how do such working conditions prevail and what problems does they present to both the animators and the industry? This talk will give you a basic knowledge of the Japanese animation industry and a chance to think about the above questions.
Mr Daisuke Okeda is a lawyer in Japan and an inspector/director of JAniCA (
Japanese Animation Creators Association ). His special field is computer & IT law, the animation industry and racketeering through intercession in civil disputes. JAniCA is a non-profit organisation composed of Japanese animators, animation directors and their supporters. JAniCA was founded by a group of animators in 2007 and the number of member animators was around 700 in January 2010. It intends to contribute to the enhancement of the quality of anime, the development of anime culture and the improvement of the working conditions and welfare of anime workers. For these purposes, it is involved in the following activities: to provide animation education for professional animators/directors; to provide additional health insurance to animators/directors; to carry out assessments/research of Japanese animation; to encourage journalism documenting Japanese animation; and to encourage the improvement of production and education in Japanese animation.
This seminar is open to all. For a map of Strand Campus please see
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand.html. For further information please contact Dr Hye-Kyung Lee
hk.lee@kcl.ac.uk
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