Fans of Peter Chung's short-lived MTV series Aeon Flux will recognize his hand when Alexander, an animated Japanese series, airs in the US later this year. Chung created the angular and highly sexualized look of the Mad House production, a retelling of the life of Alexander the Great. Because "scripts for Japanese animation are vague, it's up to the designers to tell the story," says Chung. Japanese animators, preferring low cel counts, forgo fine movement and expression, relying instead on the staging and framing of scenes and on stylized designs. As Chung says, "It's storytelling through film language."
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