蔡旭晟

Director

Shiu-Cheng Tsai is a senior animation director, and he has been full of interest and enthusiasm for all kinds of arts and images, such as painting, comics, cartoon animation, movies, and literature, since childhood. After graduating from university, he studied in an animation design-related graduate school and chose to enter the field of animation art.

In 2005, he graduated from Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art of Tainan National University of the Arts, and continues to create by setting up his own studio. In 2013, His animated short film, Time of Cherry Blossoms, won Competition Grand Prize at Tokyo Animation Award Festival, and the film was screened in movie theaters around Japan.

Japanese animation critic Ryusuke Hikawa commented, "The charm of the image is as rich as Spirited Away, and the style of montage is similar to that of Satoshi Kon, passing through the spirit of the viewers." At present, he steadily endeavors to create original animations filled with Taiwan's distinctive features, and cooperates with Taiwanese novelist Yao-Ming Gan to adapt the latter’s original novels into animation works.