2025 China-Malaysia Film & Animation Industry Exchange Wraps Up Successfully

From April 14 to 16, the 2025 China-Malaysia Film & Animation Industry Exchange, hosted by Fox Renderfarm, the industry's leading cloud rendering provider and render farm, and co-organized by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (also known as MDEC), was successfully held in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.

This three-day industry event brought together nearly 50 top film and animation companies from China and Malaysia. Through in-depth exchanges, integrating discussions, and visits to leading enterprises, the event focused on how innovative technologies can empower 3D film and animation production. It actively explored new pathways for synergistic development between the Chinese and Malaysian animation industries, contributing to the prosperity of the global cultural sector.

Days 1 & 2: Visiting Malaysian Animation Studios

During the China-Malaysia Exchange, Fox Renderfarm and nearly ten Chinese animation companies visited six influential Malaysian film and animation enterprises on-site. Through in-depth discussions, both sides engaged in face-to-face dialogues on key topics such as core technologies, market prospects, challenges, and opportunities, jointly exploring the potential and future direction of the global animation industry.

Group Photo at Illusionist Animation Studio

Group Photo at Glow Production

Group Photo at Monsta

Group Photo at Fly Studio

Group Photo at Astatica

Group Photo at Rawr Pictures

Through this exchange, both parties gained an in-depth understanding of each other's strengths and needs in technological R&D, market expansion, and project execution. This visit has built a solid bridge for the China-Malaysia animation industry, laying the foundation for broader future collaboration.

Day 3: Keynote Speeches and Strategic Networking

The official day of the industry exchange conference began with the welcome speech from Fox Renderfarm, followed by MDEC. 

Fox Renderfarm has established itself as a globally recognized cloud rendering service provider. To date, we've served more than 400,000 users across 100+ countries and regions, earning international acclaim for our exceptional rendering performance, enterprise-grade security protocols, premium customer support, and flexible pricing models.

Our rendering solutions have powered numerous critically acclaimed productions, including:

• “Ne Zha 2” - The global box office champion
• “Mr. Hublot” - Academy Award-winning short film
• “Oni: Thunder God's Tale” - Annie Award-winning series

During the conference, Fox Renderfarm presented in-depth case studies of our collaborations with world-class animation studios, demonstrating how cloud rendering technology continues to revolutionize modern animation production workflows.

Opening Speech by Fox Renderfarm

Datuk Ts. Fadzli Abdul Wahit, the Senior Vice President of MDEC, highlighted Malaysia’s creative industry achievements and praised China’s global influence. He noted that this exchange unlocked co-production, distribution, and market access opportunities, expressing hope for deeper long-term collaboration in digital content to elevate both nations’ creative industries.

Datuk Ts. Fadzli Abdul Wahit, MDEC’s Senior Vice President

Following the speech by MDEC's senior vice president, Evan Wu, the founder of Gaomiao Animation, delivered a presentation titled "Optimization Breakthroughs in Nezha’s Animation Production," showcasing technological advancements and breakthroughs in China's animation production. His presentation highlighted the growing technical capabilities of Chinese enterprises in the digital content sector.

Evan Wu, Founder of Gaomiao Animation

Malaysian companies Media Prima, Durioo, and Golden Screen Cinemas successively shared their diversified distribution channels, innovative marketing strategies, efficient and mature communication and promotion solutions, fully demonstrating Malaysia's communication advantages in the creative industry chain.

Aziemah Azman, Animation Manager at Media Prima

Kim Ooi, International Screens and Film Festivals Manager at Golden Screen Cinemas

Nelli Nellisa, Head of Content Acquisitions & Safe at Durioo

Subsequently, Chinese companies in attendance—including Motion Magic, Hongli Animation House, Cloud Art, Popcorn Animation, Qnanimation Studio, Heywow Studios, and Skyfilm—took turns presenting. Through introductions to their companies and projects, they showcased their core competitiveness in fields such as digital animation and special effects production. The exchange of experiences and case studies between the companies of both sides further solidified the foundation for China-Malaysia digital content cooperation.

Riven Lyu, Project Director of Digital Animation Department at Motion Magic

Yu Zhixin, Executive Producer at Hongli Animation

Chen Wanli, Director at Cloud Art

Ivan Ling, Business Director at Popcorn Animation

Sun Lu, Founder of Qnanimation Studio

Lawrence Meng, Founder of Heywow Studios

Zhang Huiting, Producer at Skyfilm

The China-Malaysia exchange concluded successfully, achieving precise alignment in film, animation, technology, and creative resources between the two countries, marking a step forward in bilateral cooperation. Leveraging this event as a foundation, the two sides will further strengthen technical exchanges and industry cooperation, jointly shaping a new roadmap for high-quality growth in the global film and animation sector.

China-Malaysia Industry Exchange Photos

Moving forward, Fox Renderfarm remains committed to fostering global industry connections. By harnessing our worldwide network and industry leadership, we will continue to drive meaningful cultural exchanges in the CG industry. We eagerly anticipate future international collaborations, where together we'll pioneer exciting new frontiers in film and animation through shared innovation and creative partnership.