There are many angles to studying a country's culture, and it is difficult to point them out one by one.
However, it cannot be denied that the cultural products exposed to at the beginning of growth play a very important role in the formation of the initial cultural environment. In particular, animation has played an important role in forming children's social psychology and social environment. China's animation industry is in a period of exploration and development, and the once prosperous animation originator, the United Kingdom, is in a period of industrial innovation and transformation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the most distinctive black-faced sheep in the UK</h1>
As a TV animation, the "Shaun the Sheep" series was widely popular as soon as it was launched, and this group of black sheep from northeast London, led by Shaun, quickly became a British "national treasure" with their invincible funny skills and excellent IQ and emotional intelligence!
"Shaun the Sheep" Chinese translated as "Shaun the Sheep". Born in 2007 and won an International Emmy Award, this classic stop-motion animation is a collection of animated short films co-created by Aardman Animation Studios in the UK and the BBC in the UK. The anime features a "lamb" on the farm, and miraculously, it doesn't have any dialogue, just a whooshing sound and various other sound effects.
These lambs have one thing in common, that is, they have a "superior IQ", they can read and write, they love to play games and are brave, they maintain the state that humans think "sheep" should be when the farm is guarded, and they show a different side when there is no one around. And the viewer can observe their lives through the perspective of God.
However, this drama is not only about the "sheep", it is also a fairly excellent clay animation, like puppet animation, clay animation is a kind of stop-motion animation, it is made of frame-by-frame shooting, the early clay animation needs to be adjusted step by step by the shooter, but in today's computer technology is so developed, clay animation has also joined the computer synthesis technology.
The drama version of "Shaun the Sheep" that began broadcasting in 2007 has been four seasons, the movie version has also come out, and Shaun has become a well-known animated character, loved by children all over the world, of course, there are big friends.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > everyone grows up with a "sheep"</h1>
In China, about the animation of "sheep", it must be the classic "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf", this animation is produced by Guangdong Original Power Culture Communication Co., Ltd., which began to be broadcast in 2005, a total of 530 episodes, and in recent years, there have been many big movies, and the animation has achieved extremely high ratings since its inception, especially among children, but the remarks and evaluations around this animation are good and bad.
The film and drama version of "Shaun the Sheep" are narrated through the perspective of children, depicting the tortuous growth process of a group of animals in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, which is a little similar to "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf". Miraculously, the 2015 "Shaun the Sheep" movie was released in the same year as "Pleasant Goat and the Year of the Gray Wolf", which truly reflected the development of the animation industry in the two countries.
Let's start with the connection between the two, which come from different countries but have similarities: both are original series of animations that have achieved good word-of-mouth and audience base in the series and launched big movies; both have their own national characteristics.
The performance of the two in the film is obviously better than "Shaun the Sheep", the success of "Pleasant Goat" has not continued in the film, its development has shown a weak state, most of the children even the audience has lost the freshness. Increased competition in the Chinese animation market, coupled with the lack of innovation, is easy to be slowly forgotten.
On the other hand, "Shaun the Sheep", it is necessary to say that the boutique route of British animation, boutique animation is inseparable from stop-motion animation, stop-motion animation as a special form of animation, its production cycle is long, the commercial space is small, so it is easy to produce a unique concept.
In the history of Chinese animation, it has experienced a short period of glory, but in the three-dimensional animation, Flash animation is the mainstream today, stop-motion animation seems to be disappearing in China, all in a small number of experimental animation can see it, when "Pig Eight Commandments Eat Watermelon", "Gourd Baby", "Sandpiper Clam Scramble", "Divine Pen Ma Liang", "Avanti" and other classic stop-motion animation are worth watching repeatedly.
Previously mentioned production of "Shaun the Sheep" company, the British animation company Aardman in the three-dimensional animation mainstream today, Aardman company has always insisted on doing the most traditional clay puppet animation, such insistence did not let them decline, but won them more praise and honor, since the 80s of the last century, Nick Parker and his Aardman studio has successively made "Lead the Goose into the Room", "Razor's Edge", "Moon Picnic", "Bread and Death", "Super Invincible Leader Dog - Human Rabbit Curse" And other classic animations, these wonderful animations also won them three Academy Awards for Best Short Film and one Best Feature Film Award, and set off a wind of stop-motion animation in the world.
If you really put the two together to compare, Happy Goat is really smart and cute.
In the final analysis, the current "sheep" is no longer suitable for children's needs, I don't know how far the future "Happy Sheep" can go, which requires the creators to think more and explore what kind of animation children want to see?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > don't say it's childish, I really can't resist this sheep</h1>
There's always been a saying in the animation world: "People who do animation are like gods creating the world." ”
Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki also said: "Animation is such a pure, simple art that allows us to express it through our imagination... Its power is not lost to other artistic forms such as poetry, fiction or drama. ”
The script structure of each episode of "Shaun the Sheep" is relatively simple, and its audience is pushed from 3-year-old children to children in the above age group.
Careful analysis of the plot of "Shaun the Sheep" will find that it can attract a large number of children's friends with a simple storyline and has been introduced and broadcast by many countries, which has a certain educational significance in addition to humor and humor. It seems that the small fights in each episode will be calm in the end, the lambs are witty, brave, loving and united, they can turn the cabbages that fly from the outside into an afternoon football game, and they will also use melons and other props to build a fake farmer to deceive the puppies...
These witty and funny plots can not only bring children joy, but also play a edutainment role, so that they can learn a lot of wisdom in life. Adults will feel that there should be no negative things in the animation, and should not be shown to children, children's books in the quiet of the years is the most deserved, and in "Shaun the Sheep", with the unique British critical spirit, subtly convey a self-deprecating, self-ironic attitude, in fact, this is not harmful to the growth of British children.
If American animation is exaggerated and funny, then British animation is self-deprecating. Anyone who laughs at himself needs courage, more than tolerance, feel that the United Kingdom often makes fun of itself, whether it is its own culture, country or language, in "Shaun the Sheep", Xie Ding plus the highly myopic farmer has seen his sheep walking upright, climbing on the roof, stealing snacks many times, but each time he shook his head in comfort, thinking that this was his own delusion.
The United Kingdom is a country that respects art, and in animation the little sheep also like to draw, they often paint the master's canvas in a mess... The most ironic scene in the play is that just when they are worried about being discovered by their owners, a large luxury car passes by, and the painting of the lamb is regarded as an abstract masterpiece and sold at a high price, and the ending is happy.
Can only say that everyone's aesthetic is different, and the reason why "Shaun the Sheep" is successful is also that it will be a profound humanistic care, special art characteristics and innovative thinking mode of clever integration, from the perspective of art design style, the modeling design, color design and film selection of this animation have different artistic characteristics, which is the artistic height that other animations cannot reach, and it is also worth learning from many people.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
The collision of "two little sheep" brings us not only the contest between the two films, but also the enlightenment and thinking of domestic animation. "Shaun the Sheep" has a lot of reference value for "Happy Yang and the Year of the Gray Wolf". A british warm veteran, enduring. The emotions contained in it are the original intentions that people have forgotten in the midst of hard work, which is a world that is not lacking in bitterness and sorrow, but it is also full of love and beauty all the time.
"Shaun the Sheep" once again proves with its own success that cartoons are not only for children to see, but also simple things, as long as they are carefully explored, there must be something different wonderful. I hope that animation from all over the world can bring people beauty and hope.
Original text, figure network