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In 1937, Japan invades East China.
The Japanese soldiers, that have occupied Foshan, find Ip Man, a wealthy and modest man, the best master teacher of Wing Chun, a style of Kung Fu.
Ip Man is threatened by Miura, a Japanese general, master of Japanese martial arts, Karate.
General will spare his life, only if he going to teach Wing Chun to its soldiers. Ip Man refuses and challenge Miura.
General Miura accept, both because of his love for martial arts and because decline the challenge it would be a shame.
The challenge between Ip Man and Miura is open to the public and will be held in the square in Foshan.
Due to Ip Man's resistance in bowing to the Japanese, the people of China finally began to unite.
ANIMATION Giuseppe Calanna
ORIGINAL FILM DIRECTOR Wilson Yip
ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY Sing-Pui O
ORIGINAL EDITING Ka-Fai Cheung
ORIGINAL SCRIPT Edmond Wong
CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING Giuseppe Calanna
MUSIC Kenji Kawai
This animation is an animated tribute to "IP MAN", a 2008 film.
Created by Giuseppe Calanna, a student of Academy of Fine Arts in Catania.
It is the result of a his thorough technical knowledge of software belonging to software house Adobe Systems.
Through the use of graphic tablet, in Photoshop has created the drawings, in After Effects has animated the background and drawings imported from photoshop and finally in Premiere Pro has used color correction and editing.
But above all this is a work of dedication and passion that have accompanied it, for 3 months, to achieve this animation.