Two days later, Mr. Du finished his lecture at Nanjing Film Studio and returned to Shanghai, bringing back a "closed disciple". Mr. Du, who loves his talent and wins his son, drove his son out to rent a house, let his disciples eat and live at home, and recommended him to the animation director class of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University. Yu is the oldest in the class, but he learns the fastest. Three months after entering school, he was hired by an animation company in France as a composition designer with a monthly salary of more than 7,000 yuan and 6,000 Hong Kong dollars, which surprised him who had worked abroad. In the following five years, he successively created and directed original cartoons such as Zorro, Sissi Princess, Little Dragon Man and Romance of the Three Kingdoms for animation companies such as the United States and Japan, and became a dazzling animation star and one of the top animation masters in China.

After working for foreigners for a long time, Yu gradually developed an unresolved feeling: "So many well-known literary works in China have been used by foreigners to make cartoons ... Only by absorbing foreign animation technology and experience and cultivating a large number of local talents can we compete with foreign animation." 1998, Yu gave up his rich income of more than 100,000 yuan a year and returned to Dandong to establish the first animation school in China-Yinghai Art Film Secondary Vocational and Technical School.

He returned all the goodness to Lantian and Du Chunfu to the students. He used to say "my child" when he mentioned students. He taught the children to give up their immediate interests and concentrate on studying art. He is very strict with the children. A student who just started working for a year, a student who was unable to extricate himself because of lovelorn, was dismissed by him. He would rather refund tuition fees and lose money, but also ensure the purity of students. Each period enrolls more than 40 students. Two years later, there are only seven students in grades 1998 and 1999. For students from poor families, talented and willing to work hard, he exempted tuition fees. The student lives in a dormitory building, and he lives in a simple room in front of the teaching building. For the sake of "children", he spent all his savings and even sold the antiques he had collected for many years, bent on cultivating an elite who can shoulder the future of China animation.

By 2005, the school was closed due to an accident, and a large number of animation talents were trained. "There are still many people working in Dalian." Yu said. Since then, Yu was employed by an animation company in the European Union and became the general director of the animation company at the peak of Korean national history in Europe.

"When will you go back to Pyongyang?" Parting, the reporter asked. "After playing enough." Say that finish, I got up and went to Benxi to enjoy peach blossoms. On the wall of the house, there is a picture of a dragon pony in Qing Dynasty that he painted. "You still have my four horses in Dalian." I said, looking from his gray head, on the picture, 65,438+04 horses galloped freely and gracefully.

Painter, animator, poet, planner … In many fields, he is like an eagle, flying freely in the wind.