A popular event in Vietnamese history has been depicted in a 3D animatedfilm by a group of students at Ho Chi Minh City's Hong BangUniversity.
Dai Chien Bach Dang (The Bach Dang Battle), asix-minute film using 3D technology, features the battle on the BachDang River between Vietnamese forces led by Ngo Quyen and Chineseinvaders under the Han dynasty in 938.
Created by sixfinal-year students in industrial arts, Vu Duc Thinh, Dinh Ngoc Chinh,Nhu Thi Thuy Diep, Nguyen Thanh Duc, Tran Hau and Dang Minh Quyen, thefilm contains colourful, lively images and simple language.
It has attracted 70,000 viewers on YouTube.
"Through Dai Chien Bach Dang, our youngsters can learn bravery, honourand responsibility. They can improve their knowledge about history andlearn about independence," a viewer from Hanoi wrote in the commentsection on YouTube.
"The victory is still new in the hearts of Vietnamese," he said.
Nguyen Thanh Duc, a member of the film crew, said they had worked hardto research documents and books about the nation's legendary hero NgoQuyen and his victory.
The film's big scene depicts NgoQuyen showing his troops how to place iron-headed spikes in theriver-bed, which are invisible at high tide.
He launches acounter-attack at low tide, which makes the enemy's large boats runaground as they are pierced by the long stakes.
Duc saidhis group decided to feature the battle in their film because thevictory of Bach Dang ended the 1,000-year rule of Chinese feudalism,opening a period of national independence and sovereignty.
Duc and his peers used modern technology, hoping to draw young people back to Vietnamese cartoons.
They can have made the film longer, but the students did not have enough money.
"Animated filmmakers should produce new works completely different fromthe Vietnamese ones, which only have boring pictures and contain verystrict moral themes," Le Viet Thanh, a software designer, said."High-tech, sophisticated productions attract children."
Afternoon cartoons on TV are a highlight for many children and youngpeople, particularly those who live in remote areas. But up to 90percent or more of cartoons shown on TV have been produced overseas.
The Viet Nam Cartoon Studio (VCS) first produced cartoons on CDs in1998, although the studio has made about 300 cartoons on film over thelast 40 years.
Several thousand copies of the studio'scartoon CDs have been introduced into the domestic market as part of thestudio's special promotion.
Many children enjoy thestudio's CDs, which include Chiec Binh Vang (The Pot of Gold) and ChuGau Vung Ve (The Clumsy Bear), which sell for V0,000 each VND.
In 2010, the studio spent nearly 7 billion VND(350,000 USD) to make the90-minute Chuyen Ve Nguoi Con Cua Rong (The Story of Dragon's Son),which won the Golden Lotus prize at the National Film Festival lastyear.
But this effort is a drop in the bucket compared tofilm companies' or television services' importation of hundreds ofcartoon titles each year.
"To improve this situation,State-owned companies like VCS should co-operate with socialorganisations and private companies to improve their activities inbusiness and education," director Pham Minh Tri of VCS said.
Both State-owned and private filmmakers should ask TV stations toreserve time to broadcast Vietnamese cartoons, many of which aim toincrease children's appreciation for their parents, friends and country,he added.-VNA
Dai Chien Bach Dang (The Bach Dang Battle), asix-minute film using 3D technology, features the battle on the BachDang River between Vietnamese forces led by Ngo Quyen and Chineseinvaders under the Han dynasty in 938.
Created by sixfinal-year students in industrial arts, Vu Duc Thinh, Dinh Ngoc Chinh,Nhu Thi Thuy Diep, Nguyen Thanh Duc, Tran Hau and Dang Minh Quyen, thefilm contains colourful, lively images and simple language.
It has attracted 70,000 viewers on YouTube.
"Through Dai Chien Bach Dang, our youngsters can learn bravery, honourand responsibility. They can improve their knowledge about history andlearn about independence," a viewer from Hanoi wrote in the commentsection on YouTube.
"The victory is still new in the hearts of Vietnamese," he said.
Nguyen Thanh Duc, a member of the film crew, said they had worked hardto research documents and books about the nation's legendary hero NgoQuyen and his victory.
The film's big scene depicts NgoQuyen showing his troops how to place iron-headed spikes in theriver-bed, which are invisible at high tide.
He launches acounter-attack at low tide, which makes the enemy's large boats runaground as they are pierced by the long stakes.
Duc saidhis group decided to feature the battle in their film because thevictory of Bach Dang ended the 1,000-year rule of Chinese feudalism,opening a period of national independence and sovereignty.
Duc and his peers used modern technology, hoping to draw young people back to Vietnamese cartoons.
They can have made the film longer, but the students did not have enough money.
"Animated filmmakers should produce new works completely different fromthe Vietnamese ones, which only have boring pictures and contain verystrict moral themes," Le Viet Thanh, a software designer, said."High-tech, sophisticated productions attract children."
Afternoon cartoons on TV are a highlight for many children and youngpeople, particularly those who live in remote areas. But up to 90percent or more of cartoons shown on TV have been produced overseas.
The Viet Nam Cartoon Studio (VCS) first produced cartoons on CDs in1998, although the studio has made about 300 cartoons on film over thelast 40 years.
Several thousand copies of the studio'scartoon CDs have been introduced into the domestic market as part of thestudio's special promotion.
Many children enjoy thestudio's CDs, which include Chiec Binh Vang (The Pot of Gold) and ChuGau Vung Ve (The Clumsy Bear), which sell for V0,000 each VND.
In 2010, the studio spent nearly 7 billion VND(350,000 USD) to make the90-minute Chuyen Ve Nguoi Con Cua Rong (The Story of Dragon's Son),which won the Golden Lotus prize at the National Film Festival lastyear.
But this effort is a drop in the bucket compared tofilm companies' or television services' importation of hundreds ofcartoon titles each year.
"To improve this situation,State-owned companies like VCS should co-operate with socialorganisations and private companies to improve their activities inbusiness and education," director Pham Minh Tri of VCS said.
Both State-owned and private filmmakers should ask TV stations toreserve time to broadcast Vietnamese cartoons, many of which aim toincrease children's appreciation for their parents, friends and country,he added.-VNA
