chinese character anthropomorphization ::
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
:: I received an email today from Woody Fu (a producer at MTV | iggy) introducing me to a couple segments he recently did with a gentleman named Christoph Niemann. I found them to be quite interesting.
Christoph is an illustrator / designer who created a children’s book called The Pet Dragon. The book also functions (unintentionally) as a 101 to learning Chinese language through its fun anthropomorphization of the a characters.
In the first video below, Christoph discusses the trials of making the book (he’s German, and English is his 2nd language – he has zero formal Chinese education).
In the second video, Woody tries stumping Christoph with increasingly difficult Chinese characters to make images out of. // AjS
