We just spotted an excellent short animated film called “Yuan” (元, Origin) produced by Youku user Zhang Peng (张朋), who’s spent three months on this masterpiece as his senior year project for college.

In the short film, you will see some traditional Chinese myths, like the story of Pangu (盘古), who took 18,000 years to completely separate sky from earth, and Nvwa (女娲), who created the first (Chinese) human being from mud.

“Yuan, the origin.” According to the opening caption, this film was inspired by The Changes of Zixia (子夏易传). Its basic idea: everything that has a beginning has an end; while something ends, something new begins.

Sound familiar? The Matrix Revolution poster had borrowed this philosophic concept.