2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japanese animation
As a big country in the production of animated films, its animated films have gradually acquired their own characteristics in the development process.
Japanese director Shiota once said in an interview that except for Japan, basically all countries think that anime is "something that children watch." Fortunately, there is no such constraint in Japan, and from the beginning Japanese animation was aimed at adults, and as a result of its development, Japanese animation covers a wide range of genres and age groups.
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After graduating from the Faculty of Law at Sophia University in 1991, he joined Nippon Steel (now known as Nippon Steel Sumitomo). After leaving the company, he participated in the creation of THE 3D animation production company DREAMICTURES STUDIO.
Speaking of Japanese animation, many people are familiar with two-dimensional characters, flat characters, on the contrary, foreign 3D animation is more, in recent years, the animation industry as an important branch of the cultural and creative industry, occupies a pivotal position in the country's creative economy, and the concept of 3D animation has gradually become the direction of national comics, and Chinese animation has also shown a good state of development.
Compared with Japan, China's animation industry is also very early, is one of the first countries to develop animation, from 1926, the Wan brothers overcame various difficulties, successfully produced the first animation "Big Trouble Studio", it is also the beginning of Chinese film and television animation. However, China's animation industry from its birth so far, has experienced glory, but also experienced a low, and now is also in an embarrassing position of not up and down, throughout history, the types of domestic animation is the most, such as: "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother" as the representative of the ink painting drama, "Divine Pen Ma Liang", "Avanti" as the representative of the puppet drama, "Conch Girl" represented by the paper-cut painting drama, etc., Chinese animation can be described as a hundred flowers blooming, a hundred schools of contention.
In the new century, China also began to embrace new technologies, and the first animation created with it was "Baolian Lantern". (The best part of Pauline Lamp is the opening sequence, which uses a combination of 3D and 2D techniques.) This content was produced by a Hong Kong animation company. )
In the face of strong competition in the world, Chinese animation has never been able to occupy the domestic market, and throughout the world animation market, the level of animation works in Japan, Europe and the United States can be described as far ahead. Japanese works with rich themes, relaxed plots, and light pictures have won the love of most teenagers. Since the 21st century, global imaging technology has begun to rise, mainly in animated films.
This is the development and application of 3DCG technology.
In the new century, Japanese animation films have produced a series of excellent films in image technology, mainly based on two-dimensional animation technology, supplemented by three-dimensional animation technology, and combined with two-dimensional and three-dimensional animation technology.
Released in 2004, "Apple Nuclear War" is a science fiction Japanese animation film that explores the relationship between humans and other species in the future world from an oriental perspective, and the proposition of where humans will go. This movie is adapted from the authentic work of Japanese anime master Shiro, perhaps the audience in China is not so wide, but there is also a saying in the industry: "Apple Nuclear War" is a CG animation that every animation has seen in the year.
The film is different from the traditional two-dimensional and three-dimensional animation, it adopts the very new two-dimensional and three-dimensional combination of animation game art style in Japan at that time, that is, the use of dynamic capture technology in three-dimensional modeling, in order to obtain a more realistic sense of action, and on this basis, the two-dimensional rendering of the surface material of the object is not as delicate as the traditional 3D animation, the texture of the object will also be affected, but it can give people a new and strange look, The setting of characters and various mechanical equipment also appeared in various clever and dazzling ways, which was absolutely innovative at the time.
With the current technology, this animation still has some shortcomings, especially in terms of long shots, but this is also because of the limitations of cost and computing power, and there are still many places where the 3D picture is too strong, resulting in too smooth reflections, and the term of the model is "aging is insufficient". But the so-called old is not easy, after all, this is a 2004 movie, can do this, currently in the Douban score of 7.5, is already a very good result.
If I had watched this film for the first time in 2004, I would have been impressed and remembered to this day. People at that time watched this film and may have seen the future of 3D animation. For most anime lovers, the classic Japanese animated films in their minds are none other than the two-dimensional animation works of Hayao Miyazaki, Imatoshi, Katsuyo Otomo, and Makoto Shinkai.
However, since the new century, the box office of three-dimensional animation films has been climbing, and it is surprising that new records have been set repeatedly. However, in terms of production technology, the mainstream of Japanese animation films is a combination of two-dimensional and three-dimensional, and the two complement each other, which is also recognized and popular in the world animation market.
In fact, there are not many animation works that combine three and two dimensions, some of which are very popular and familiar to everyone, such as "Spirited Away" (2001), "Steam Boy" (2004), "Alien Royal Blade Tan" (2007), "Hal's Moving Castle", "The Other Side of the Clouds", "Millennium Actress", "The Last Vampire" (2000), "Emerald Forest: Wolves and Sheep" (2005), "Bad Boy" (2006), "Piano Forest" (2007), "Air Killer" (Air Killer) 2008), Summer Wars (2009), Rain and Snow for Wandering Kids (2012), Detective Conan series, etc...
The outstanding animation beauty and profound theme setting of "Apple Nuclear War" allow us to fully appreciate the charm of Japanese animation.
Speaking of "Apple Nuclear War", it is a typical "mash-up" work.
It is full of symbolic concepts made up of borrowed words. The puzzling word "Appleseed" in the title comes from the American fairy tale "Johnny Appleseed" (Johnny's Apple Core), and the protagonist of the original book dreams of creating an ideal world through unremitting efforts, which is a typical utopian dream.
In addition, the various titles in the movie are also derived from Greek mythology, but the core idea of "Apple Nuclear War" is to emphasize that human beings must face up to their own shortcomings, and through continuous self-reflection to grasp their own destiny, quite oriental speculative temperament.
Whether it is the fusion of technology or the fusion of stories, it is a product of this world, and the oldest animated images originated from the murals in the cave of Altamira in Spain 20,000 years ago, which presented the continuous and repetitive paintings of people capturing the running movements of local wild boars, which made the still wild boar portraits feel rhythmic...
From the very beginning of animation, animated characters are made up of simple white lines (in 1906's Humorous Gesture of a Funny Face, the male and female protagonists are white chalk lines drawn on a blackboard). The sound elements in the first sound animation, The Steamboat Willie, were added as new elements more than 20 years after the birth of the anime.
The world's first color animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was born after the sound film (1937).
As a cultural industry that has been developing, animation nourishes children's childhood, and also allows countless adults to have dreams and enthusiasm.
World animation has gone through a long period of development time and space, now has become a necessity in people's lives, but also a real popular culture, today's animation will be rich and colorful to bring people, now the world animation has entered the golden period of development, with the continuous development of technology and the emergence of countless animation talents, it is foreseeable that the future animation will usher in a leap forward in development.
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