C. Jay Shih(I)
- Director
- Animation Department
- Writer
C. Jay Shih started shooting 8mm animation and experimental films while
back in 1980s. Being a college student, he already won a few times for
prestigious Golden Harvest Short Film Competition Awards in Taiwan.
After graduated from university, he and friends founded the first clay
animation studio in Taiwan, Cats. Between 1988 and 1992, he went to
United States for his master degree, majoring in computer graphics at
New York Institute of Technology. In 1992, he came back to Taipei and
made 16mm animation Taipei Taipei, and 35mm stop motion animation Post
Human, which won the best animation award in Golden Horse Award,
Taiwan's Oscar, and became the landmarks of stop motion animation in
Taiwanese animation history. Besides teaching, he also works as
freelance animation director for Asian MTV, Star TV Channel in Hong
Kong, and some other commercial companies in Taipei. In 1998, he was
invited to be the Director of Graduate Institute of Animation of Tainan
National College of the Arts, which is the first graduate department
fully dedicated to animation education in Taiwan. Since 2004 July, he
has been teaching at the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts of
National Taiwan University of Arts, and continuing his dedication to
animation education. In 2006, his collaborated work, A Fish with a
smile, won the jury award of 56th Berlinale Kinderfilmfest.