A photojournalist by trade, Wen Ling (温凌) has an unusual dedication to telling stories through images. In 54boy.com, a short, silent animation laced with Chinese characteristics, we find him more relaxed and more lyrical than in his other works. The result is a work that is by turns melancholic, funny, and hopeful, proving that youth isn’t all innocence, and age isn’t all jaded experience.

Wen Ling launched the ziboy photoblog in 2001 — a frequently updated informal documentation of his life in Beijing and travels abroad. His documentation of everyday life continues in the cartoon Potot, in which …

Look up in the sky it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…. Super Baozi. Yup, the savior of Chinese animation, at least in the eyes of some, is the steamed bun superhero created by Sun Haipeng (孙海鹏). While some of Super Baozi’s skills are a bit prosaic — rocking a crowd for example — the dough puff has caught on big in China, and launched the reluctant Sun to the forefront of China’s CG scene.

The first clip of the three bun animations, “Super Baozi vs. Sushi Man” (超级包子大战寿司侠), a quirky remake of a classic Bruce Lee scene, went viral, …