Everyone's childhood growth is inseparable from the company of cartoons.
After school, I finished my homework early in order to beg my parents to turn on the TV set early, sit in front of the TV set on time, and wait for the colorful world to open. With the passage of time, we have grown up, and the production of cartoons has become more and more sophisticated, so how has animation developed along the way?
At 205, Building 3, Beijing Science Center, Science Cafe invited Shi Qiqi, a teacher majoring in three-dimensional animation and animation creation at the Communication University of China, to take everyone to know about animation, understand animation, and unveil the mystery of animation together.
When it comes to animation, we have to mention the "Chinese school" that has a far-reaching influence on Chinese animation.
In 1956, China's first animated film " Why the Crow is Black " won an award at the 8th Venice International Children's Animation Film Festival in Italy. However, because when creating "Why the Crow is Black", the creators copied the wonderful fragments of the Soviet cartoon "Gray Neck Duck" and other films, and preserved them as materials for later generations to learn and reference, which made the film appear "without expressing the characteristics of the Chinese nation, and the artistic style is more similar to the Soviet form" So that people who have watched the film almost unanimously determine that this is a Soviet work. After reflection, Te Wei, director of the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, put forward the slogan of "exploring the road of national style", and thus began the conscious construction process of the "Chinese School".
1. Emphasize the health of the content: reflect the national life and national psychology, reflect the national lifestyle and way of thinking, inherit the Chinese artistic tradition and spirit, and learn from the national cultural heritage.
"The Great Haunting of the Heavenly Palace"
2, the form is eclectic: like ink animation, paper-cut animation, even animation, etc.
Paper-cut animation "Cornucopia"
Puppet animation "Avanti"
3. Adhere to the national drawing tradition: from painting to sculpture, from paper cutting to shadow puppetry, the reference of excellent traditional culture and the purification of local real life make Chinese animation present authentic Chinese style.
In the process of exploring how to combine with the modern artistic characteristics of animation films, Chinese animation films have gradually formed their own unique style, distinct Han characteristics and distinctive artistic expression methods, making Chinese animation films unique in the world animation film world.
The children were listening carefully
Then Mr. Shi introduced the animation to the children about character design, performance, color and fonting.
The shape of the opera face in "The Strange Talk of the Book of Heaven"
Based on the shaping of the character based on color, the character characteristics of the character are highlighted by color to express the emotions of the protagonist.
Like the color of Nezha's clothing is filled with a large number of red, big red belly pocket, fiery red mixed sky Aya, and the bright red headband on the head, there are both small differences, but also unified in the overall tone, implying justice and bravery, in line with Nezha's upright and courageous personality characteristics.
Ao Bing, on the other hand, uses blue and purple to highlight the calmness in the character's personality, carrying the repression of the family mission.
Nezha and Ao Bing
Under the guidance of Teacher Shi, the children made handmade paintings on the spot.
During the period, Mr. Shi shared with the children the story of Winthor McKay, the father of American animation: when there was no advanced technology at the beginning, the production of animation was through hand-drawn single animations, hand-painted patterns and lines in the picture, filmed them, and then played them frame by frame to make them move. The standard frame rate of modern animation is 24 frames per second, that is, there are 24 original paintings per second, and Winser McKay had only one assistant when he created "Gertie the Dinosaur", they hand-painted tens of thousands of single original pictures, and shot tens of thousands of pictures through the camera, making them move continuously, achieving the world's first animation work.
Through this activity, let the children understand that the creation and design of animation is a very complex process, and the children have personally experienced the color matching, hoping that our children will carry forward the fine traditions of the older generation while also walking out of their own unique path.
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