I frequently pass by this one but always forget to snap a photo until I see it. Fortunately, today there was a woman walking her dog on the elevated expressway. I tried to get a picture of her and failed (Curse you HTC phones and your slow cameras!!!) but as a result, my camera was ready for this beauty:
The little gifts life gives you.
Several years ago, all of Guangzhou’s major institutions of higher education were bunched together and moved to an island in the suburbs.
For years, the universities had all been applying for funding to expand and build new facilities. Why not grant them all their funding at once in the same place? The students could have a sense of community between the schools. Resources could be shared. The isolation from urban temptation would encourage studying. Guangzhou could have a competitive 21st century higher education megalopolis. It was an enormous, ambitious endeavor. Years later, the results are in. This major undertaking is already yielding fruits such as this online post making the rounds:
Guangzhou University Center Female Student Body Evaluation
Sun Yat-Sen University
Well-educated and cultivated. Tends to be emotionally sensitive. Average appearance in general. Not so sexy.
South China Normal University
Morally righteous. Has some substance. But, they look and dress a bit country. Not really on the pretty level.
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Modern thinking. Open-minding Western practicality and materialism. Lacking in traditional Chinese cultivation. Whole lotta girls, whole lotta variety, very few diamonds.
Xinghai Conservatory and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Stylish and fashionable. Lots of personality. Open-minded and bohemian, almost to the point of disbelief. The beauties are seductive and glamorous. The lesser ones are clownish. Not so pure.
Guangzhou University
Cutting edge pop culture and style. A caricature of contemporary Guangzhou women. Heavy makeup. More mature than their actual age.
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Professionally cultivated. Delicate and reserved. Average appearance across the board. Rare to even see a slightly prettier one.
Guangdong University of Medicine
Some are okay. Not much substance or cultivation.
South China University of Technology
A combination of logic and artistry. When mixed well, a rare beauty! Gone wrong, a dinosaur.
Guangdong University of Technology
Not worth discussing. A total disaster area of desperate horny men with no relief in sight.
Hear the original (in Cantonese)：
广州大学城十校女生大评点[以下所述基于实地考察加些许主观感受]
中大:颇有修养.略显感性.不过相貌趋向平凡.不够塑.
华师:颇有情操.带些许内涵.不过有全民村姑面孔倾向.靓女指数不足.
广外:思想现代.彰显西方现实性之open.略欠传统道德修养.女生密度大.但鱼龙混杂.精品不多。
星海广美:打扮很in 极具个性.带常人无法理解之艺术性开放.美者妖艳.丑则滑突.缺乏纯情.
广大:很潮很in 恰似广州现代女性开放之缩影.浓妆重抹.带与年龄不相称之成熟.
广中医:颇具专业修养.文静而温情.相貌平平而稍靓.极品甚少见.
广药:中低档次的美丽.素质上略显底气不足.
华工:理科睿智与文科秀气之结合.结合得好则为人间尤物.不好则恐龙托世.
广工:免谈.一个男生性饥渴的重灾区
A homebrew animated short film has been garnering quite a bit of online attention lately. It’s title is 《打，打个大西瓜》or Hit, Hit a Big Watermelon. The story of how it was made was quite remarkable, but I won’t get into that because it’s already been covered in great detail at ESWN, ChinaSmack and ChinaHush (a.k.a. high profile blogs more popular than us).
Instead, I thought I’d call up my brother, a hotshot digital artist at Dreamworks Animation. He was on the team that created Kung Fu Panda and the recent Monsters vs. Aliens. After watching it, here’s what he had to say:
“The fact that this was done by one person is very very impressive. That being said, the visual quality and art direction are inconsistent (some things are much higher quality then the rest), the FX are pretty decent for the most part. The lighting seems to only use key lights, no fills or bounce lights, and the compositing is kinda weird. The models are too low res for alot of the close ups. The character animation and acting is actually really bad (lacking in alot of the 12 principles of animation such as ease in and ease out, overlapping action, line of action, etc.) The cinematography is not too good either, alot of confusing camera cuts. The use of Toon shading with semi realistic shading is also quite jarring.
Regardless of its shortcomings, the person who did this is obviously extraordinarily talented and obviously worked really hard on this. I’m more even more impressed by the fact that he had very limited resources to make this and from what it sounds like, he is self taught. This would explain why on a technical level, things are impressive, but on an artistic level, things need alot of work. It’s even common in portfolios here at major studios: TD have impressive tech demos but not art demos, artists have impressive art demos but not so impressive tech demos. The guy who made this fits into the first category. With proper artistic direction he could make some great things. It’s really unfortunate that someone with this much latent talent and drive won’t have the chance or money to go to school =( If he were to go to gobelens or supinfoco in France (perhaps the best in the world) or scad/rcad/calarts (best in the US, and RCAD is almost on par with the schools in France) in the us or vancouver film school, he would really be able to develop his skills and his eye.
The concept is also very cool. This person would make a good candidate for an FX artist.”
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