If I were asked about the most impressive animated short film I watched as a child, I would answer without hesitation: "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother".
Released in 1960, this ink animation short film adapted from classic fairy tales and designed and produced based on Qi Baishi's Chinese painting created an artistic precedent with a unique artistic conception in which Chinese comics and ink complement each other.
The film has since won numerous awards: in 1961, it won the Silver Sail Award for Short Film at the 14th Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, in 1962 it won the Best Art Film Award at the 1st Hundred Flowers Award for Chinese Films, the Children's Film Award at the 4th Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, the Honorable Mention at the 17th Cannes International Film Festival in France in 1964, and the first prize at the 3rd Zagreb International Animation Film Festival in Yugoslavia in 1978.
Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio has also become the most anticipated Guoman studio in one fell swoop because of this "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother".
Accompanied by melodious guqin and pipa music, the audience followed a group of free tadpoles to find their mother.
Immersed in the dynamic world of ink painting, the flowers and plants and various animals that appear in front of you seem to have come out of Chinese painting, and the colors and charm are so familiar and expressive.
Ink painting is an artistic realm that can be used to pursue vivid charm and depict gods in the way of "moving ink and five colors". This is consistent with the traditional rhetorical methods of the East to pursue subtle and far-reaching artistic aesthetics.
The animals in the film are lifelike and vivid, and although they do not have colorful colors, they have a vigorous sense of life and vitality at all times.
Nowadays, there is a particle ink like "Deep Sea" in Chinese ink animation, which has made great breakthroughs and innovations in terms of clarity, picture texture and color, but it has gradually lost the charm and artistic conception of ink.
Perhaps it is because of the excessive emphasis on visual sensory stimulation, but to a certain extent, it weakens the mutual reflection and communication between the audience and the artist's mind, and it is difficult for the artist to capture and empathize with the artistic realm and life pursuit that the artist wants to present through ink painting.
However, the ink style at the beginning of "White Snake: Origin" has a kind of courage to innovate on the basis of retro ink animation.
The ink style can neither limit the prosperity and innovation that binds Guoman, nor should it be abandoned by technological innovation and aesthetic changes.
How to make good use of this Guoman's trump card, the creator still needs to explore and try more.
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