The life of a silent character.

Formerly known as Wanjiazong, he was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Good at movie animation and Chinese painting. In his early years, he was engaged in the research of Art editor and Chinese and Western paintings, the design and drawing of cartoons, and the exploration of making cartoons in the form of Chinese paintings. He was one of the pioneers of early art films in China.

He and Wan Guchan are twin brothers, and they like painting since childhood. They joined the Shanghai Commercial Press on 19 19, worked in the Art Department, and then worked in Shanghai! Work in the film and television department. Mainly create advertising pictures, draw illustrations and covers for magazines. In the 1920s, inspired by American cartoons, Wan Laiming began to study animated films with his three younger brothers, Wan Guchan and Wan Atlas, by combining the principles of China's lanterns, shadow play and movable peep show. 1925 made an animated advertisement "Shu Zhendong's Chinese Typewriter" in cooperation with Wangu Zen, and began his animation career. 1926 cooperated with Wan Guchan to produce China's first animated film "Make a Big Scene in the Studio" for Great Wall Film Company. 1930 also produced short films such as subversion of paper men for greater China film company. Starting from 193 1, he and Wan Guchan successively produced animated short films "Wake Up My Compatriots" (193 1) and "Sincere Unity" (193/kloc-)

Dance ". After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, animated short films "Special Anti-Japanese War" (1938), "Anti-Japanese War Slogan" (1938) and "Anti-Japanese War Song" (1938) were produced to publicize the Anti-Japanese War and save the nation. 1940, Wan Brothers created China, which was more than 8,000 feet long in Shanghai, and it was also the first animated feature film with sound in Asia, reaching a new height in animation skills. 1954, Wan Laiming returned to Shanghai from Hong Kong as the director of Shanghai Animation Film Studio. He has produced cartoons such as Meet in the Wild (1955) and Big Red Flower (1956).

He has published albums such as Beauty of Human Expression, Beauty of Human Pattern and Magic Pen.