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One of The Creators of Chinese Ink Animation Te Wei 中国水墨动画片创始人之一——特伟

Te Wei (特伟 Tè Wěi) was born in 22 August 1915 in Shanghai, died in 4 February 2010 in Shanghai was a Chinese animator. He is probably best known for the 1956 short animated film The Conceited General. From about 1960 his animation style was influenced by the painter Qi Baishi(齐白石 Qí Báishí). Not permitted to carry on his animation during the Cultural Revolution, Te Wei regained a position of artistic influence in the late 1970s and the 1980s with a series of animated films in painterly style.

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