THE TEAM

Salvador Simó

Director

FILM AND TV DIRECTOR
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, 2D Animated Feature Film. Goya Award, European Film Award, Annecy Festival (Official Section, Distinction of the Jury, Best Original Music)
Tikis and Mikis, 3D anim web show.
Abus Musical clip band.
Max Adventures 3D animated TV show.

VFX PREVIZ AND LAYOUT
The Jungle Book Layout Lead
Pirates of the Caribbean Layout Lead
Prince of Persia Previsualization Lead
"G.I.Joe, Rise of Cobra" Previsualization Artist

Li Jianping

Director

Professor at Beijing Film Academy, Dean of Animation School.
Worked as animation director at China Central Television during 1988 to 2007. Secretary general of animation arts committee of China artists association. Deputy Secretary General of China Animation Association. President of Beijing Film Animation Association.

ANIMATED SHORT FILMS
Eternal Butterfly, 1988. Animated short film, Ice Painting, 1992.
Luoliluosuo Adventure, 1993.
Chinese Traditional Virtue Story, 1997, won the 4th Jintong Award and the 16th Golden Eagle Award.

ANIMATED SERIES
Journey to the West, 1996, won the 18th Golden Eagle Award in 2000.
The Dreaming Girl, won China International Animation Monkey Award, the 20th Star Light Award of China Radio and Television Award.
Ma Lan Hua, 2006.
Explore the Kingdom of idioms, 2008, won the 26th Golden Eagle Award in 2012. Story of Chen Jiageng, 2013.

ANIMATED SHORT
Film, "Fish", 2016

Abraham López

Animation Supervisor

Professional with more than twenty years of experience in the world of 3D animation. Trained at the San Antonio de Baños film school (Cuba) in filmmaking, direction of actors and script.
Nominated for the Goya Awards and a member of the Spanish Film Academy
His filmography as director, animator and animation supervisor includes the RTVE series Clanners, the feature film Deep and the short films Blue & Malone Imaginary Detectives and Just the Beginning, with more than two hundred selections and 30 awards. He has been creative director in the ESDIP Animation Studio and his latest short film, Impossible Cases, currently in distribution, has been selected in 50 festivals, three of them qualifying for the Academy Oscars.

Elisabeth Castro

Art Director

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, 2D Animated Feature Film. Art Department, visual development and backgrounds artist

Spring Always Comes Back, 2D Animation Short Film, Art Director and Visual Development.

Hu Mingyun

Assets Modeling Supervisor

Hu Mingyun has rich experience on character and environment modeling, as well as texture and shading. He has been working as assets supervisor at China Film Animation.

Animated projects that he has participated in:
Qi Jiguang (2013, animated series)
Secret Plans (2014)
The Plume (2016, short film)
Sharp, the Bull (2019)
Mosley (2019)
Pets United (2019)

Victor Saúco

3D Supervisor

Designer and illustrator, post producer, animator, graphic designer, FX, veteran in the world of Spanish 3D, has worked in all phases of the digital creation process, passing through practically all languages and formats: Info-architecture, 3D printing and engineering, documentary, artistic creation and development, advertising, cinema, TV series, short films ...

Zhao Yuanfeng

Lighting and Comp Supervisor

Zhao Yuanfeng has rich experience on Previz, Lighting and Comp, he has been working as Lighting and Comp Supervisor at China Film Animation.

Animated projects that he has participated in:
TT PangPang (2013)
Secret Plans (2014)
UFO and the Aliens (2015, short film screened at Beijing Planetarium full dome theatre)
The Plume (2016, short film)
Romance of Three Kingdoms (2017, animated series)
Sharp, the Bull (2019)
Pets United (2019)

Ping

Our Heroine

Ping is an orphan with a hidden past. Just a slave but with inner strength and intelligence to stand up for herself and others.

Ping leaves in a dilapidated fortress in a corner of the ancient Chinese Empire and among her duties, the task to feed the last remaining Imperial Dragons.

Ping forges a friendship with a fierce ancient Dragon, and helps him escape from the fortress being chase across the entire Empire in a journey where they have to save the last Dragonling to be and where she will discover her secret power:

Ping is a Dragonkeeper.

… But everybody saw just a girl.

Tang Shu

Visual Effect Supervisor

Tang Shu has been working as animation director and animation visual effect supervisor at China Film Animation.

Animated projects that he has participated in:
Lee’s Adventures (2011)
TT PangPang (2013)
UFO and the Aliens (2015), as scriptwriter and director, short film screened at Beijing Planetarium full dome theatre)
Jack and His Great Invention (2018, as scriptwriter and director, short film)
Sharp, the Bull (2019)
Mosley (2019)
Pets United (2019)

Martín Lapetina

Layout Supervisor

Fifteen years in the world of vfx and animation participating as CG supervisor in several vfx, animation, stop motion and advertising projects. Throughout my career I had the opportunity to Supervise the Layout department in the most ambitious animated productions in Latin America and in various commercials and Award-winning animation shorts.

LAYOUT SUPERVISOR
Metegol
Condorito, the film
Ainbo, Spirit of the Amazon

LAYOUT ARTIST
Xmen - Dark Phoenix
Dumbo
Arroz y Fósforos
Ian, Una historia que nos movilizará

Bárbara Lóopez

Line Producer

I am a storyteller working in movies. My heart belongs to the stories.
Passionate about stories in all their formats. Professional with experience in theatre , radio, tv, new technologies, transmedia storytelling and Visual effects. After several years working in films and tv shows international level released such as AD Astra, Top Gun: Maverick, Ghost in the Shell and Stranger Things among others, back to Spain to be part of the fast growing opportunities that has to offer this amazing country to the world. Always learning always keen to go beyond . Always pushing myself into the next step.
My mantra that I’ve brought with me in every step of my journey:
Follow your passion and never ever forget to smile. A team work believer.

Wang Xibin

Line Producer

Wang Xibin has many years of experience in production management, technical development and management on animated film projects.

Animated projects that he has participated in:
Lee’s Adventures (2011)
TT PangPang (2013)
Secret Plans (2014)
UFO and the Aliens (2015, short film screened at Beijing Planetarium full dome theatre)
The Plume (2016, short film)
Jack and His Great Invention (2018, short film)
Sharp, the Bull (2019)
Mosley (2019)
Pets United (2019)

Song Weiwei

Producer

Song Weiwei, as the General Manager of China Film Animation Co., Ltd.(CFA), she has rich experience both in film production and corporate management. CFA is backed by the existing resources of China Film Co., Ltd, the largest state-owned film company in mainland China, and aims at developing Chinese animation industry.

With leading advantages in international co-production projects, CFA is willing to explore new model of animation IP merchandising and marketing with global partners. Now their international partners are from New Zealand, Spain, Germany, United States and Japan. They are co-developing dozens of international theatrical films with these partners.

Ms. Song Weiwei has acted as presenter or producer in such films as Mosley, Pets United, Qiaohu and His Adventure to the Green Forest, Dragonkeeper, Salute to the Heroes etc.

Larry Levene

Producer

Es. Docu has produced from 1996, 29 films (Feature, Documentaries and Series) Six out of the 29 has been filmed in China. Larry Levene, producer and executive producer of all of them, have received international awards (Shanghai lTVF Magnolia, Ondas, Urban, Ronda…) and participated in Festivals all around the world. Yangtse, Sadhus, Cloud Over Bhopal or The Last Lost Kingdom are Documentaries broadcasted in 80 countries.<

Feature Films like Kathmandu, a Mirror in the Sky has been distributed to 20 countries and Thi Mai and 4Latas are released through Netflix

DRAGONKEEPER

The Film

Dark times in imperial China. Dragons, once friends and sages
allies of men, were hunted and locked in iron dungeons.
In a remote fortress in the mountains, a slave girl helps the last
of dragons and joins him in his fight to recover his most precious treasure: the
last dragon egg, stolen by an evil sorcerer who wants to exploit his
magical potential to achieve immortality.

Pursued by the armies of the Emperor, this strange couple ventures into a
journey through ancient China in which both will learn to grow up - he, from his
millenary wisdom and she, from her youthful inexperience - and to trust the other to
defeat the fearsome necromancer, and to ensure the survival of the lineage of the
dragons.

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