Xu Chengyi

Xu Chengyi

Raman Hui, born in Hong Kong on July 4, 1963, is a Chinese American director, producer and animator. He graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

In 1989, he began to work in DreamWorks, leading the animation team to create all kinds of commercial films, animated short films and feature films. In 1994, he started his career as an animation director of the plot film baseball angel. In 1995, he was the animation director and character designer of the animated film "the true story of ant brother". In 2001, he was the character design and animation consultant of the animated film Shrek, and he was nominated for the 29th Annie Award for outstanding personal achievement - Character Animation Award. In 2004, he was the animation director and director of the animation film Shrek 2. In 2007, Chris Miller's animated film Shrek 3 was released in the United States, and he was nominated for the 35th Annie Award for best director. In 2010, he was the director of Shrek's game of all saints. In 2012, his animated film "cute cat in boots, three swordsmen of cat" was released. In 2015, the fantasy comedy "catch the demon" directed by him was released, which ended with a box office performance of nearly 2.44 billion yuan. He also won the best new director award in the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards, the 18th Huading award, China's best director award and many other awards. In 2017, he directed the fantasy comedy catch the demon 2.

Early experience

Xu Chengyi was born in Hong Kong and grew up in a single parent family. He was raised by his mother alone. He and his sister-in-law grew up. He has been fond of painting since he was a child. He is a kindergarten classmate with Director Chen Kexin. Xu Chengyi spent his primary and secondary school career in St. John's primary school and St. Joseph's secondary school in Kowloon. In 1984, Xu Chengyi graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic and obtained a higher diploma in graphic design. In the same year, he joined TVB and won the Best Animation Award of Hong Kong Independent Short Film Exhibition for his animation short film wings. In addition, he won the packaging Star Award of Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce for his design of tea packaging. Later, in order to further improve animation production technology, he chose to go to Canada Take Sheraton Institute of technology to study; after the course, I entered DreamWorks by chance. In 1989, he began to work in DreamWorks, leading the animation team to create all kinds of commercial films, animated short films and feature films.

Acting experience

In 1994, he started his career as an animation director of the plot film "baseball angel"; in the same year, he directed the animation short film "Mr. louxun". In 1995, DreamWorks was preparing to make the animated film "the true story of ant brother", and his boss recommended him to be the animation director and character designer; in the same year, he was the animation director of the science fiction action film "Batman Forever"; in addition, he was the computer animator of an episode of the animated film "The Simpsons". in 2001, he was the character design and animation consultant of the animated film Shrek, which won the Best Animation Award at the 74th Academy Awards. For this reason, he was nominated for the 29th Annie Award for outstanding personal achievement, Character Animation Award. In 2003, he acted as the dubbing of the animated film "Legend of the seven seas of Sinbad", dubbing Jin in the film. In 2004, he was the animation director and director of the animation film Shrek 2, which made 6 billion yuan at the global box office. On May 18, 2007, Shrek 3, an animated film co directed by Chris Miller, was released in the United States. After three days of release, Shrek 3 made a box office of 122 million yuan, and he was nominated for the 35th Annie Award for best director. In the same year, he was the judge of the 13th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award. In addition, he was also nominated by the National Association of cinema owners Awarded the title of "animation director of the year". In 2008, he directed the animated film Kung Fu Panda: the secret of the five heroes. In 2010, he was the director of Shrek's game of all saints. On February 24, 2012, his animated film "cute cat in boots, three swordsmen of the cat" was released. In July 2015, Zeng Huading won the best director award of the 18th China Film Festival, and he won the best director award of the movie In the same year, he was the director of Lu Han's submarine MV. in 2017, he directed the fantasy comedy "catch the demon 2", which is starred by Bai Baihe and Jing bairan and released on February 16, 2018.

Main works

Director's work

Take part in the film

Dubbing works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Xu Chengyi is a shy director. He is not tall and gentle. His happy face can make all kinds of comic expressions at any time. Xu Chengyi is modest and easygoing. His hard work in Hollywood has made him an international designer with hard work of Hong Kong people and American humor. He showed great talent in the production of the movie "little ant soldier". His appearance does not match his talent, just like an old urchin coming out of the animation world. In addition, when Xu Chengyi interprets his works with rich expression, it is easy to bring everyone into the world of his artful animation (comments of tonight, Sohu, China Economic Net and Oriental Morning Post).

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