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吉林动画学院

Jilin Animation Institute

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  • Basic Facts
  • Mission & Strategy
  • Degree Areas
  • Key Teaching Staff
  • Successful Graduates

Basic Facts

  • Year of Foundation:

    2000

  • Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:

    2023

  • Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:

    2000

  • Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:

    Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

  • Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):

    Mr. Zheng Liguo

  • Address:

    No.2888 Guigu Street, High-Tech Industry Development Zone, Changchun, China

  • Country:

    China

  • Website:

    https://en.jlai.edu.cn/

  • Points of Contact

    CILECT Contact Person:
    Vice Chairman: Liu Xin
    Telephone:
    +86 87 01 88 78
    Email:
    ies_jai@126.com
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Executive Vice Director of Int’l Cooperation and Development Center: Bao Yiping
    Telephone:
    +86 87 01 88 78
    Email:
    animationfa@126.com

Mission & Strategy

Jilin Animation Institute was founded in June 2000 and approved as a private undergraduate university by the Ministry of Education in 2008. The Institute has 12 schools, including School of Animation Art, School of Comics, School of Game, School of Film, School of Design and School of Virtual Reality. JAI insists on its three school running characteristics of “Openness and International Orientation;Integration of Education, Research and Industry; Technicalization of Creative
Products”, which has helped the institute to become the national cultural industry demonstration base and among the top ten animation education institutions in the Pan Asia Pacific region. Adhering to school motto of “Self-esteem, Self-discipline, Innovation and Creation”, the institute continues to innovate talent training mode, focuses on its education mode of “Integration of Education, Research and Industry”, implements the strategy of “targeted talent cultivation” and “ open-ended and project-based teaching”. JAI faces the whole industrial chain of cultural and creative industry encompassing animation, comics and game, film and television, design, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, culture and business management and brand marketing, and it has set up a comprehensive practical teaching platform for education-industry connection. JAI’s industrial clusters drive its professional education and industrial high-end projects lead the teaching reform. JAI attracts high-end talents from domestic and foreign markets, and comprehensively cultivate its students to become application-oriented professionals with strong practical abilities, deep cultural heritage and high artistic accomplishment. More than 40,000graduates went on working at state-owned or private enterprises and the one-time employment rate of graduates has always remained above 90%.

Key Teaching Staff

LUO Jianglin

Major Achievements:

Executive Director of the National Institute of Computer Basic Education of Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, Director of Special Committee of E-sports, guiding expert of College Aesthetic Education in Jilin Province, the Sixth Batch of Top Innovative Talents
in Jilin Province, National First-class Animation Professional Leader, Class A Chief Expert of High- Level Specialty in Jilin Province, Nice President of JAI and President of School of Animation Art. Responsible for and mainly participated in the research and implementation of the science and technology support plan project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China and the transformation project of major scientific and technological achievements of the “double ten” project in Jilin Province, presided over the research and development of 17 scientific and technological innovation products, and obtained 5 invention patents. Published 15 academic papers in EI and national dual core journals. He has won two national scientific and technological innovation awards of China Electronic Video Industry Association, “Technological Innovation Award”, “The Third Prize of Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award”, and the First and Second Prizes of Jilin Provincial Teaching Achievement Award. Organized and participated in the research and creation of 16 animation art works won 149 important awards of various animation festivals at home and abroad, including the “Best Film” award of the 14th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, “the Best Film of 2021, Diploma for A Short Film for a Unique Mastery of the Art of Animation” of the Russian Festival of Animated Films in Suzdal. Organized and developed the high-tech achievements such as the digital animation production process management system which have been transformed and applied in animation enterprises inside and outside the Province, supported the Frog Kingdom And a number of 3D animated films, and won the Five One Projects” award and the Chinese Government Award for Culture and Art. In 2020, he won the “Technological Innovation Award” of China electronic video industry association.

LI Sida

Major Achievements:

Executive Member of Digital Art Professional Committee of China Image and Graphics Association. He has been engaged in teaching and scientific research of digital media art, interactive design and animation for a long time. In recent years, he has wrote “Introduction of Digital Media Art” and “History of Digital Media Art”, as well as the teaching materials of digital media art and animation such as “History of Disney Animation Art”, “Introduction of Interactive Design”, “Introduction of Digital Image”, “Introduction of Fantasy Art” and “Introduction of New Media Animation”. Among them, Introduction of Digital Media Art was rated as the national excellent textbook of 2007. The Second Edition(2012) was rated as the National Planning Textbook of the 12th Five Year Plan. In July 2015, the National 12th Five Year Plan textbook Introduction of Digital Media Art was published.

GU Kejian

Major Achievements:

Representative works: The First Major Case of New China, Valentine Holiday Hotel, Spring Butterfly, Dangerous Life, Crane Hometown, Nightclub, Sea Saffron;

Awards: Purple Scar won the Special Award of Feature Film of 14th Xiaobaihua Festival, The First Major Case of New China won the Honorary Award of Feature Film of the 15th Xiaobaihua Festival, Powerful Woman won the Excellent Translated Film of 15th Xiaobaihua Festival, Mysterious Tycoon won the Excellent Translated Film of 20th Xiaobaihua Festival.

LI Weihua

Major Achievements:

Professor, Master’s tutor, graduated from Jilin College of the Arts in 1982, majoring in drama, film and television performance, and studied at the Directing Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy (1986-1987), and served as the Vice Dean of Teaching at the School of Drama, Film and Television of Jilin College of the Arts from 1995 to 2011. She served as the director of the School of Film and Drama of Jilin Animation Institute and the executive vice president of the School of Film from 2012 to 2021. Currently, she is the leader of the directing program in the Film Academy. 

Lecture courses:

Theory and Practice of Drama, Film and Television Acting, Basic Theory of Drama, Film and Television Directing. 

Acting in TV series:Big Snow, Little Snow, Another Year”, “Rock Paper Scissors”, “Traffic Police”, etc.; wrote and directed the play “Peach Blossom Splendor”, directed “The Story of the Staircase”, and at the same time published the thesis “Breaking through in the awkward life situation and the cycle of life–Director’s Notebook”; edited the “Theory of Acting Creation”, which was published by the China Drama Publishing House, and published many other works, such as “The Classics: The Absence and the Spirit of Drama”.

LIU Junyi

Major Achievements:

Dean of School of Film, Art Evaluation Expert of NSFC, Executive Director of Broadcasting and Hosting Art Education Committee of China Higher Education Association, Evaluation Expert of China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center. Guest Professor of Kirk University, Thailand, Academic Consultant, Professional Leader of “Broadcasting and Hosting” of Provincial Characteristic Specialty, and leader of provincial excellent course “Language Expression”.

XIAO Jipeng

Major Achievements:

Teacher of Recording Art in School of Film, Music Producer, Second Grade Composer and Recording Engineer, Member of Electronic Music Society of China Musicians Association, Judge of Music Listening Examination of China Musicians Association, Member of Jilin Provincial Musicians Association, Director of Jilin Provincial Young Musicians Association, Director of Changchun City Musicians Association. His works have won the second prize of Jilin Province TV Literature and Art Danding Crane Award in music and TV category.

Teaching Direction: Film Music Composition and Production, Sound Effects Mimicry, Film and Television Recording, Music Recording, Film and Television Post-Sound Production.

WANG Daxiong

Major Achievements:

Teacher of School of Film, first-class artist, professional leader of drama, film and television art design in Jilin Animation Institute. The films and TV dramas that he has participated in have been selected for the 17th Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Lighthouse Award at the 8th Miami American Film Festival, the Major Revolutionary Historical Theme Film Award, the Five One Project Award, and other awards at home and abroad. At present, he has set up a film and television art design expert studio to lead students in practical teaching of film and television art design, conduct practical training in film and television art design, and lead students to carry out the overall design of the film and television city in conjunction with the ” Mountains and Seas Theme Park” project.

LI Xueyan

Major Achievements:

Director of the Creative Department of the Jilin Art Research Institute, national-level playwright, member of the Chinese Dramatists Association, guest professor at Northeast Normal University and Jilin Art College.

Li Xueyan has written the large-scale drama “Tears Flow Quietly”, the large-scale children’s drama “Happy Friends”, “Forest Horn”, etc. She has been awarded the Playwright Prize of the China Drama Festival, the 16th and 18th Tian Han Drama Prize, the 7th, 8th, and 12th Changbaishan Literary Award, the Five First Project Award, the Five First Project Award, and the Five First Project Award. “He has won the playwriting award at the China Drama Festival, the 16th and 18th Tian Han Drama Award, the 7th, 8th, 12th Changbaishan Literary Award, the “Five First Project” Award, and the National Art Fund Project Support.

Main Courses: Film and Television Script Writing, Animation Script Writing, Stage Script Writing.

Successful Graduates

ZHOU Yuhan

Major Achievements:

After graduating from JAI in 2014, she entered into Savannah College of Arts and Design in the United States, and now works for Pixomondo in the United States.

ZHAO Jiayi

Major Achievements:

Jiayi Zhao is currently residing in Los Angeles, USA. She entered the New York Film Academy’s directing program through the 3+2 program at Jilin Animation Institute in 2016, and graduated at the top of her class with an MFA in 2018. In the same year, her graduation short film won the Best Student Film Award at the Miami Independent Film Festival, the Best Sound Award at the Asian Film Festival, and the Best Short Film Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, to name a few. Currently, she holds the position of Manager at Fox, the largest media company in the US, where she is responsible for the company’s post-production and operations, and leads a team that manages and reviews more than 120 films per year.

LIU Honglu

Major Achievements:

Chinese actor, screenwriter and director signed by Big Bowl Entertainment, graduated from Jilin Animation Institute majoring in Drama, Film and Television Literature in 2015. In October 2012, he represented JAI to participate in the Ninth Northeast Provinces Drama Sketch Competition, and won the first prize for performance and the second prize for screenwriting for “Blind Date”. He has created popular works such as ” Hi, Mom”, “Love on the Island”, “Love in a Small Town”, “Jiu’er”, “Year after Year” and so on. He has also participated in many comedy variety shows such as “The Comedian” .

ZHANG Siyuan

Major Achievements:

Chinese rapper, member of the rap label Free-out. 2016 April, set up an independent music group F.T.S, and began to release independently produced music works; in the same year, in the “Netease Cloud Music National Third Campus Singer Competition” won the overall champion, the best popularity award. 2017, officially signed the agency; April 10, released his original single “Whatever You”, thus officially debuted. His original song “For the Strange You” won the Top Ten Songs of the Year in the “Hardland Hearth Night – 2018 Netease Cloud Music Original Ceremony”.

CHEN Zhongfa

Major Achievements:

After graduation, he devoted himself into the film and television production industry. Established As You See Beijing Culture Media Co., Ltd, Xin Gang Chao (Beijing) Film &Television Equipment Co., Ltd., Beijing Quan Shijiao Culture Media Co., Ltd. and Maissongli Cultural Media. In September 2017, CHEN Zhongfa awarded National Gold Prize of the 3rd China Internet+ College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition with the project “The Leading Film and Television Solution”. At present, the asset scale of the company he holds has exceeded 200 million RMB, and has launched the “new wave” film and television production industrial process. In November 2020, he won the Teaching Master Award, Outstanding Teaching Award and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Award held by China Teacher Development Foundation.

ZHAO Ming

Major Achievements:

In the new year of 2020, he resolutely entered Wuhan, became a special reporter for shooting in Wuhan during pandemic, and completed the shooting of documentaries such as Guangdong story in Wuhan and Wuhan ICU life and Death Memorandum of Guangdong Medical Team, which attracted extensive attention from the society. At school and after graduation, he has been paying attention to the development and education in poor areas, shooting Family Photos in Mountains, Wedding Photos in Mountains, etc. in 2015, he was selected into the “10th Annual Student selection of Chinese College Students”. Documentaries such as The Way to Study on Horseback, Children on the Ladder and The Way out of Poverty in Cliff Village were broadcast on CCTV.

ZHANG Yingli

Major Achievements:

The feature film “The mountain” was nominated for “Best Feature Film” at the 2015 Beijing Youth Film Festival; and obtained “Excellent Original Feature Film” award of the 7th China Image Film Festival. The feature film Dream of the Ridge won the “Best Cultural Inheritance” award of the 13th World National Film Festival; the finalist of the 12th Chinese American Film Festival. The short film Mobius participated in the 70th Cannes Film Festival. The online drama Bunker won the Best Drama Award of World Chinese Science Fiction Association,CSFA. The documentary “The Bridge to Paradise ” was nominated for the best feature documentary of Barcelona Asian Film Festival.

LI Lingxiao

Major Achievements:

He created short animation of Go To My Home at school, and directed two animated films Crystal Sky Of Yesterday , and Mr.Miao which were released all over the country, and won the First Prize of Best Asian Animation Award in Anim!Arte – International Student Animation Festival of Brazil, Best Animated Short Film Award of The 8th Contest of Asian Youth Animation, Comics and Digital Arts, Gold Award of Animation Action Design of 2015 Chinese College Students’ Original Animation Competition, Special Award of the Jury of 2014 Animation Academy Award of Beijing Film Academy , and nomination of Best Creativity Award of 2014 Animation Academy Award of Beijing Film Academy, etc.

CHEN Lu

Major Achievements:

Founded Beijing Musizhou Cultural Development Co., Ltd. and produced more than 100domestic original documentaries such as A Bite of China, China’s Major-Country Diplomacy, Amazing China, and Xi Zhongxun, etc. And multiple works were exported to other countries, Which won important awards at home and abroad, such as “Five Ones” Project, Toronto Film Festival, Huabiao Film Awards, Golden Rooster Award, China TV Golden Eagle Award, Golden Panda Award, The Magnolia Award and so on.

KOU Fujun

Major Achievements:

General Manager of Beijing Bolang Shengshi Culture and Media Co.Ltd.

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