Ribbib... Move over, Kermit

A new amphibian movie star has emerged in Northeast China, and it is only one of many characters being brought to life in the animation studios in Changcun, Jilin province. Deng Zhangyu and Liu Mingtai take a look at the storyboards.

In a room occupying half a floor of a building, rows of artists are busy working on their computers painting, designing and coloring 3-D cartoon images of various frogs. The scene here is no different from animation studios flourishing in dozens of China's animation and games industry zones where rooms are so tightly packed with animators that it makes breathing a little difficult.

The difference is that here, the animators and motion designers hard at work are college students in their senior years.