In the more than one hundred years of animation history, Disney played a very important role, launching the world's first audio animation film "Steamboat Willie" in 1928, the world's first color animation film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937, and then the world's first 3D animation film "Toy Story" in 1995.
Toy Story
In these days when animation is produced, it has always been the people of Europe and the United States waving the flag of progress. In 1941, after the Wan brothers in China worked hard to make their own animated movie "Iron Fan Princess", the world was impressed by us. Even Osamu Tezuka, the god of Japanese anime, watched it and went to Shanghai to visit them.
Iron Fan Princess
Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's animation production level also belonged to the first class in Asia, and there were many animation films from the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio. At that time, many animation pioneers who struggled in the front line crossed the river by feeling the stones and successively produced cartoons rich in Chinese characteristics. Like the paper-cut cartoon "Pig Eight Commandments Eat Watermelon", the ink animation film "Little Tadpole Finds Mother", and the origami cartoon "Smart Duck" and so on. Because at that time, the country was in ruins and waiting to be revived, and the state gave a lot of support in policy, which allowed us to usher in the first animation boom.
Pig Eight Commandments eat watermelon
The little tadpole looks for its mother
Clever ducks
Later, the domestic development center shifted to the real economy, and the animation industry was relatively dark. It wasn't until the seventies and eighties that it began to recover again.
Today is a cartoon produced during this period, "Bamboo Shoots Growing in the House", which was a special animation film for the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio at that time, and it is also an ink-cut paper-cut animation film in China. This cartoon is a collection of two forms of art film: ink film and paper cut piece.
Bamboo shoots growing in the house
Ink animation is a successful genre produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio in the early 1960s. In general, the shape of animated characters is "single-line flat painting", while ink animation has the characteristics of the fine tradition of Chinese national painting, that is, ink painting. The figure has no edge line, and it is not flat, but can show the effect of brush drawing on rice paper from the film. Ink animation has opened up a new path for the nationalization and massization of Chinese film art.
Paper-cut animation, also known as paper-cut film, is a fine art film style developed on the basis of traditional arts such as shadow puppetry and folk paper-cutting. It uses the art of flat carving as the main means of expression of character modeling, draws on the experience of shadow puppetry to assemble joints to manipulate the movements of characters, and makes paper dolls with flat joints. The ambient space is composed of drawn pieces of paper and front and rear scenes attached to the glass, and the glass plates are separated by a certain distance in order to layer the light. When shooting, place the paper doll flat on a glass plate to shoot frame by frame. The world's earliest paper-cut animation was The Adventures of Prince Archimedes, produced by Lot Reniger in 1926.
The Adventures of Prince Archimedes
"Bamboo Shoots Growing in the House" Is an 18-minute animation film, which is mainly about the red soldier Hidehide and Aoi Aoi, for a bamboo shoot growing in the house, there is a conflict. Aoi was influenced by her grandmother and wanted to eat the bamboo shoots. Xiu Xiu believes that this bamboo shoot was drilled from the ground by the bamboo of the production team and should be returned to the public. She educated her brother with the idea of loving the collective, which made him more aware and touched her grandmother's old thoughts. So the sisters and brothers happily dug up the bamboo shoots and sent them back to the production team.