Hong Ying
Hong Ying is a Chinese animation studio. It was founded in 1986, starting off as a subcontractor of Wang Film Productions. After working on a few of Wang's shows, they gained an identity of their own, working on a number of cartoons, especially those from DiC Entertainment.
They are pretty much best known for providing animation for some very trippy shows. That's not to say that's all they do. When they aren't doing weird stuff, they're doing animation for some more realistic shows.
Compare Carbunkle Cartoons, Spumco, Saerom, and Rough Draft Studios, other animation houses know for doing a lot of crazy animation.
Among the shows done by Hong Ying:
Solo
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
- Archie's Weird Mysteries
- Beverly Hills Teens
- Chowder
- Clifford the Big Red Dog: The PBS Kids Version
- Double Dragon (Season 2)
- Extreme Dinosaurs
- Gargoyles
- Hero: 108
- Hey Arnold!
- James Bond Jr.
- Michel Vaillant
- Mighty Max
- Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm (With Animal Ya)
- Pelswick
- Phineas and Ferb
- Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders
- Robotomy
- Seven Little Monsters
- Stargate Infinity
- Static Shock (Outsourced by Tama Productions)
- Street Sharks
- Videopower
- W.I.T.C.H. (First season with Wang; Ink & Paint in season 2)
- The Wacky World of Tex Avery
- X-Men (one episode - "Graduation Day", Replacing AKOM and Philippine Animation Studio Inc)
As Anime subcontractor
- The Adventures of T-Rex (With Madhouse, Mook and PASI)
- Basquash (Background work outsourced from Satelight).
- Blue Dragon (Animated Adaptation; Additional Services)
- Golgo 13 (In-Between Animation, 2005 series)
- Hellsing Ultimate (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation, Background Art)
- Le Chevalier d'Eon (In-Between Animation for four episodes, Outsourced from Production I.G)
- Pokémon the Rise of Darkrai (2nd Key Animation Assistance)
- Tetsuko no Tabi (Additional Services)
- Yumeiro Patissiere (Finish & In-Between Animation)
As subcontractor for Wang; all uncredited
- Beetlejuice
- Care Bears
- The Comic Strip (Street Frogs segment)
- The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
- Dink the Little Dinosaur
- Eek! The Cat
- Garbage Pail Kids
- Police Academy: The Animated series
- A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
- The Smurfs
- Wildfire (80s cartoon)
Tropes found in Hong Ying's work:
- Animation Bump: Chowder, although the extreme Medium Blending in that show may help.
- Deranged Animation: Quite a bit of it comes from here. It and Saerom are possibly the kings of this trope.
- Off-Model: Most of their work on Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.