Xiao Xiao
Xiao Xiao (, "Little Work") is an Internet Flash cartoon series by Chinese animator Zhu Zhiqiang, featuring stick figures performing choreographed fight scenes. Some of the cartoons are interactive and game-like. All cartoons are in the Adobe Flash format, with the exception of Xiao Xiao #1, which was originally in AVI format and converted to Flash format."''Xiao Xiao''" is the Chinese character for "small" repeated twice in Mandarin Chinese; here this reduplication connotes an affectionate diminutive, an equivalent might be the English expression "itty bitty" or "lil' old". Each Xiao Xiao cartoon is given a Chinese title with the adjective "Xiao Xiao" preceding a descriptive noun phrase. Xiao Xiao #1 was originally titled "Xiao Xiao Zuo Pin", which translates to "A Little Bit of Creative Work". Since then each Xiao Xiao cartoon has had a different noun succeeding "Xiao Xiao". #4 is titled "Little Sheriff", and #7 is titled "Little Movie".
The term has gradually shifted meaning from the cartoons themselves to the main character, an anonymous black stick-figure. In this context it means something similar to "little fella", appropriate since in most perspectives Xiao Xiao and his fellow stick-people appear tiny and childlike, with disproportionately large heads and small limbs.
Xiao Xiao is placed in various dangerous situations to prove his martial arts prowess, often against other stick figures who appear more or less identical to himself. Usually other stick figures are also black, but can be other colors, and Xiao Xiao's perpetual nemesis is the Boss, a purple stick figure who commands the enemy sticks and appears to be Xiao Xiao's only peer in ability.
Others have seized on Xiao Xiao's popularity to make animations exploiting the easy-to-draw style of stick figures and minimalist backgrounds, often creating cartoons that are sequels or takeoffs of the official Xiao Xiao cartoons, especially Xiao Xiao #3. Provided by Wikipedia
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441by Fang Xu, Ping-Ping Yao, Yong Xia, Lei Qian, Zhang-Nv Yang, Rong-Hui Xie, Yi-Sheng Sun, Hang-Jing Lu, Zi-Ping Miao, Chan Li, Xiao Li, Wei-Feng Liang, Xiao-Xiao Huang, Shi-Chang Xia, Zhi-Ping Chen, Jian-Min Jiang, Yan-Jun Zhang, Ling-Ling Mei, She-Lan Liu, Hua Gu, Zhi-Yao Xu, Xiao-Fei Fu, Zhi-Yong Zhu, Han-Ping ZhuGet full text
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446by Jun Ni, Miao Huang, Li Zhang, Nan Wu, Chun‐Xue Bai, Liang‐An Chen, Jun Liang, Qian Liu, Jie Wang, Yi‐Long Wu, Feng‐Chun Zhang, Shu‐Yang Zhang, Chun Chen, Jun Chen, Wen‐Tao Fang, Shu‐Geng Gao, Jian Hu, Tao Jiang, Shan‐Qing Li, He‐Cheng Li, Yong‐De Liao, Yang Liu, De‐Ruo Liu, Hong‐Xu Liu, Jian‐Yang Liu, Lun‐Xu Liu, Meng‐Zhao Wang, Chang‐Li Wang, Fan Yang, Yue Yang, Lan‐Jun Zhang, Xiu‐Yi Zhi, Wen‐Zhao Zhong, Yu‐Zhou Guan, Xiao‐Xiao Guo, Chun‐Xia He, Shao‐Lei Li, Yue Li, Nai‐Xin Liang, Fang‐Liang Lu, Chao Lv, Wei Lv, Xiao‐Yan Si, Feng‐Wei Tan, Han‐Ping Wang, Jiang‐Shan Wang, Shi Yan, Hua‐Xia Yang, Hui‐Juan Zhu, Jun‐Ling Zhuang, Ming‐Lei ZhuoGet full text
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