Mark Xuan

Mark Xuan

Ma kexuan (1939-april 6, 2015), born in Shanghai, is an animation special effects artist, art designer, director and teacher in mainland China. He is from Chaoyang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province.

In 1961, he was the animation producer of the animated film "havoc in heaven". In 1963, he was the animation producer of the short animated film "Mu Di". In 1976, he was the animator of the short film golden goose. In 1980, he directed his first animated short film "my friend little dolphin", which won the best honor award of the 12th gifforny International Children's Film Festival in Italy. In 1981, he co directed the animated short film "three monks" with Xu Jingda, which won the best art film award of the 1st China Golden Rooster film award and the excellent film award of the Chinese Ministry of culture. In 1986, he co directed the animated short film super soap with Xu Jingda, which won the best art film award of the 7th China Golden Rooster Award and the second prize of the educational film group of the 2nd Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival in Japan. In 1988, he co directed the animated short film landscape with Tewei and Yan Shanchun, which won the best art film award of the 9th China Golden Rooster Award and the first Shanghai International Animated Film Festival Award. In 1992, he directed the animated short film "Twelve mosquitoes and five people", which won the science and Education Award of the 2nd Shanghai Film Festival.

At 5:15 on April 6, 2015, mark Xuan died of illness at 455 Hospital of the Chinese people's Liberation Army in Shanghai at the age of 76.

Acting experience

In 1959, after graduating from school, Ma kexuan was assigned to shanghai art film studio. In 1961, he was the animation producer of the animated film "havoc in heaven"; in the same year, he was the animation producer of the ink animation short film "Little Tadpole Looking for his mother". In 1963, he was the animation producer of the short animated film "Mu Di", which was jointly directed by Tewei and Qian Jiajun. In 1976, he was the animator of the short animated film golden goose. In 1978, he was the animator of the short animated film Gallery night. In 1979, as an art designer, the animated film Nezha naohai was released, which was co directed by Yan Dingxian, Wang Shuchen and Xu Jingda. In 1980, he directed his first animated short film "my friend little dolphin", which won the best honor award of the 12th gifforny International Children's Film Festival in Italy. In 1981, he was the animator of the animated short film "good summer, my winter"; in the same year, he co directed the animated short film "three monks" with Xu Jingda, which was adapted from Chinese folk proverbs. The film won the best art film award of the 1st Golden Rooster Award and the excellent film award of the Ministry of culture of China. In 1983, he worked as the art designer of the animated short film "Tales of the book of heaven", which was jointly directed by Wang Shuchen and Qian Yunda. In 1985, he directed the animated short film "cleaning up". In 1986, he and Xu Jingda co directed the animated short film super soap, which tells the story of a small businessman who made a fortune through an innovative product magic soap. The film won the best art award of the 7th China Film Golden Rooster Award and the second prize of the educational film group of the 2nd Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival in Japan. In the same year, he and Xu Jingda co directed the animated short film new clothes The film won the special award of art film at the 1st Shanghai International Animation Film Festival. In 1987, he directed the animated short film Feifei the rabbit. In 1988, he co directed the animated short film landscape with Tewei and Yan Shanchun, which won the best art film award of the 9th China Golden Rooster Award and the first Shanghai International Animated Film Festival Award. in 1992, he directed the animated short film "Twelve mosquitoes and five people", which is a film that pursues people's psychological form with animation carrier and consists of two short stories. The film won the science and Education Award of the 2nd Shanghai Film Festival. On April 6, 2015, mark Xuan died of illness at the 455 Hospital of the Chinese people's Liberation Army in Shanghai at the age of 76.

Main works

Animation production

Animation special effects

Directing works

Art design

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Ma kexuan's life is very simple, very amiable. But in his work, he is very strict with his professional requirements (Guo Xuhui comments). Ma kexuan's realistic animation focuses on extracting performance elements from the details of life, enriching the plot and deepening the theme. In the design of the characters, they all adopt the form of cartoon expression. Through the ingenious conception and humorous style, they deal with the original ordinary life plot with a great typicality and sense of humor, making the content and form of the animation perfectly unified, and making the animation more distinctive. In the design of the scene is also very characteristic, the space background is usually blank processing, in the animation short "super soap" and "Twelve mosquitoes and five people" is the most prominent. This kind of scene design and cartoon style character expression are organically combined to make the animation characters more prominent and the animation language more accurate, which reflects Ma kexuan's overall control ability of realistic animation creation. He is also able to grasp the pulse of the times, transcend tradition, break through himself, come out of traditional themes, pay attention to real life, reflect real life, and analyze life through animation works, which has profound enlightenment on the development of contemporary animation (Art and design review).

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