As a post-80s generation, I can be regarded as one of the first people to watch anime in China, probably since the mid-eighties of the last century, there was a TV at home earlier, probably around 1984, when it was still a 12-inch black-and-white TV. From that time until the early 1990s, that is, the period of elementary school and junior high school, it should be regarded as a golden period for domestic teenagers to contact and understand anime, and began to watch cartoons in the mid-to-late 1980s and manga in the early 1990s. Today, we will focus on some information about animation here, which can also be said to be about the past and present lives of animation.
I've always felt that the post-80s generation is a group of people of all ages, except for war, who have been exposed to all other aspects. When it comes to understanding animation, it is definitely the most vocal. Looking back at that era thirty years ago, we can see excellent domestic animations such as "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother", "Big Trouble Tiangong", "Tianshu Qitan", "Nezha Noisy Sea" and other excellent domestic animations, as well as American animations such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Tom and Jerry", "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck", "Battlestar Galactica", and "Dragon Zitaro", "Robot Cat", "Swan Lake", "Flower Fairy", "Princess Mononoke", "Tomb of the Fireflies" in Japanese animation, as well as "The Adventures of Strange Ducks" and "Baba Papa" in European and American animations. The Story of the Mole" and other popular animation works. In the era experienced by the post-80s generation, although the materials are scarce, the spiritual food is still very good, and the cartoons they have watched have a very positive role in promoting the later life, especially some righteous, positive, and funny emotions, which play a vital role. So, when was such a good cartoon born? What developments have they gone through?
Let's follow the famous French film director, comic novelist and animation historian Olivier Curt's elaborate "A Century of World Animated Film History" to understand. Olivier Cotter is a very attentive person, he observes the positive impact of animation on the world, has been continuous research and work in the field of animation for many years, so this time he devoted himself to the compilation of this book, very detailed introduction to the origin and development of animation, as well as the development of animation in various countries and regions and representative works, to help animation lovers and readers understand all the information about animation.
First, animation is a technology, but also an art. The origin of animation is likely to come from the application of slides, where projected images have inspired people to observe incredible optical phenomena. Moreover, the emergence of animation predates film, and the idea of people moving still pictures continuously to form motion predates the invention of film technology. People should know that there is a very popular optical phenomenon called hand flipping, that is, to draw a picture in the same position on a continuous piece of paper, the picture on each piece of paper is slightly different, if you quickly flip these pages by hand, then the pictures that the human eye looks like they are moving, becoming a set of continuous actions. The person who really developed this image into animation in the traditional sense was Emile Renault. Later, techniques such as backshoot, overprinting, and freeze-motion appeared one after another, and the era of animation and film finally came.
The times are progressing rapidly, and so is the development of animation. More and more technologies and ideas have emerged, and stop-motion animation, physical animation, puppet animation, clay animation, paper-cut animation, painting animation, 2D animation, 3D animation (including CG) and so on have appeared on the big stage of animation. People use animation to show some of their ideas or some content that is not easy to express in movies and television, and that are not easy to achieve. Therefore, animation is not only for children to see, adults are also a very large audience group of cartoons, animation is very critical to the expression and display of the world.
Second, the overall level of European and American animation is at the forefront of the world, especially in the United States and Japan.
American animation originated in 1910-1920, although it was a chaotic and turbulent decade, but the production methods and influence of animation spread rapidly, and thus began to rise. Walt Disney has gradually become a symbol and even synonymous with painted animation because of the success of animated films. On November 18, 1928, the first official animated sound animation film in history, "Steamboat Willie", was released with unprecedented success, which was an epoch-making milestone. Subsequently, animated short films such as "Three Little Pigs", "Hillbilly", and "Old Mill" came out one after another, until the first animated feature film in the history of animation, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Disney's influence during this period increased day by day.
While Disney's development has not always been smooth sailing, the birth of animated feature films such as Cinderella, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck has continued Disney's glory. Domestic audiences really appreciate the charm of Disney's animated feature films is the introduction and release of "The Lion King" in 1995, this animation uses the world's most advanced animation production methods at that time, adding computer animation to the elaborate production, at that time, the addition of computer animation attracted enough attention. Later, "Tarzan", "Toy Story", "Frozen", "The Incredibles", "Dream Quest", "Zootopia", "Super Marines" and other animated feature films have achieved excellent box office results.
In the history of American animation, there are many excellent production companies and producers, but their brilliant achievements all exist in the 1930s and 1940s, during which the concept of cartoons was established, but because of its obsession with the field of realism, it set up obstacles for the need for rationality to transcend, and then dissipated little by little. "Concerto", "Three Little Bears", "To Spring" and so on have become the representative works of this period, but the era is long, and it is very unpopular, and the domestic audience knows very little.
In addition, excellent animation production companies such as Pixar (acquired by Disney) and DreamWorks have also produced many classic works, such as "Robot Story", "Flying House", "Shrek", "Kung Fu Panda", "How to Train Your Dragon" and so on.
Third, when it comes to Japanese animation, hayao Miyazaki is definitely a master of animation production that cannot be bypassed. Much of the Western world's attention to Japanese animated features is due to Hayao Miyazaki and Takahata, both of whom came from Toei Animation and co-developed and filmed many popular animation works. Spirited Away, Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies, etc. are all classics, and Studio Ghibli's influence is absolutely world-class. In addition, Katsuhiro Otomo, Mori Oshii, Imatoshi, and Makoto Shinkai are all very famous animation directors.
There are also some independent animation production companies and producers, who create works that are relatively niche, but they are unique, like "Jam", "Egg", "Touyama", "Old Crocodile" and so on.
Fourth, the introduction of animation in Europe, Oceania, Africa, etc. In fact, we are very unfamiliar with animation in this field. After all, at that time, the european animation introduced in China was very small, coupled with insufficient publicity, resulting in many excellent animation works being unknown. It's like going to a restaurant to see the menu, but how can you order something that is not on the menu?
Frankly, European animation is more niche, but it is enough to be creative and grounded. Influenced by the two world wars, satire and shady animations were very prevalent and meaningful. The animation works produced by France, Britain, Germany, Czechoslovakia, the former Soviet Union, etc. are quite eye-catching, but compared with the animations of the United States and Japan, the number of animations imported in China is really small, so that there is little knowledge of european animation works.
Fifth, Chinese animation.
The founders of Chinese animation are the Wan brothers, the older brother Wan Liming and the twin brother Wangu Toad, and the most famous masterpieces are "The Princess of the Iron Fan" and "The Haunting of the Heavenly Palace".
For children born in the 1980s and 1990s, Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio is an absolutely impossible to ignore the existence, in the 1980s and 1990s, black and white television sets to color TV dramas in the transition period, from the TV to see the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio "LOGO" is absolutely exciting, everyone rushed to tell each other, watch together, happiness and childlike fun is self-evident.
In the golden age of Chinese animation creation, under the impetus of the "Hundred Flowers Blooming" policy, Chinese animation presented a vibrant scene. Paper-cut animation, origami animation, ink animation, puppet animation, and celluloid films, which have won the most praise in Chinese animation films, various types of animation techniques have made Chinese animation very popular.
The number of classic animations is innumerable. "Red Army Bridge", "Mudi", "Proud General", "Three Monks", "Clams Fight", "Snow Child" and so on.
In addition, there are some pinyin actors who are very worthy of our love and admiration, such as Bi Ke, Tong Zirong, Li Zi, Liu Guangning, Chariot, Lei Changxi, Yang Wenyuan, etc., in the company of their beautiful voices, we spent an unforgettable childhood.
To this day, Chinese animation has been steadily moving forward, especially in recent years, some of the animation films have achieved unprecedented success. These animated films, including "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" (2015), "The Demon Child of Nezha" (2019), "The Origin of the White Snake" (2019), "Jiang Ziya" (2021), etc. have achieved very good box office; in fact, China's animation dramas are now developing very rapidly, such as "Spirit Cage", "Douluo Continent", "Fighting Broken Sky", "Devouring the Starry Sky", "Skeleton Knight" and so on represent the highest level of domestic CG animation, while "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" and "Pillow Knife Song" represent the highest level of domestic CG animation, while "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" and "Pillow Knife Song" It reflects the high level of painting animation. There are many excellent Chinese animations listed here, but the fighting spirit and efforts of domestic animators are worthy of the epoch-making title of "The Rise of National Cartoons".
We return to this exquisite collection of paintings, as the cover of "A Century of World Animation and Film History" says, "leading children to find the world and accompanying adults back to their childhood hometowns." The author, Olivier Cotter, carefully selected more than 500 high-definition full-color stills and pictures of animated films from all over the world, and delved into the producers and origin stories of these animations, the development technology of animation, the formation of animation stories, the anecdotes during filming, and the connotation logic of the animation content itself. Again, as the old saying goes, animation is not just for children, a considerable part of the work affects the thinking, vision, taste of adults, and is extremely ironic and forward-looking. It is with this observation that the author will compile this book, which will depict the whole history of the development of animated films in the world.
I grew up watching animation in a generation that must be demonstrated by actual actions. At present, the collection of animation resources is divided into: Chinese animation (1 4T hard disk), Japanese animation (3 4T hard disks), European and American animation (1 4T hard disk), these collections are basically animated series, a small number of animation unpopular movies. In addition, there is a special 4T hard disk to collect animated movies (Disney, DreamWorks, Europe, Japan and South Korea, etc.). This habit of collecting has been around for more than two decades, probably around 2000, when the burner and the burning disc were just getting started.
I really want to say that animation is the ultimate art!
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