Won 110 nominations such as the Oscar for Best Animated Feature film, and won 37 international awards, Douban's 8.2-point animated film "Wolfwalker" once again refreshed the audience's understanding of animation - in this era when everyone strives to create animation with complex special effects and strangeness, this pure hand-drawn ingenuity that took five years to create brings the audience back to the original simple beauty.
Directors Tom Moore and Rose Stewart have also been trying technological innovation in the field of hand-painting, but their direction is more inclined to how to return to the original intention of the animation: extremely complex lines + full of colors + imaginative composition, is the aesthetic style of this film, delicate line outline, a variety of color chiaroscuro contrasts, rich illustration background, with elegant and smooth movement of characters, the symbol of natural wild forest and human civilization between the city of different performances to the fullest, It also brings the ultimate aesthetic enjoyment of the viewing experience, a large number of running shots from the first perspective of the wolf are outlined with charcoal, and the wolf's nest mural and the wolf soul totem have become epoch-making humanistic and artistic animation designs, which has won a super high reputation for "Wolf Walker" in the world.
The beauty, humanistic color and temperature of hand-drawn animation are unique and irreplaceable, which is why I reject all 3D cartoons, the cumbersome technology can not eliminate the damage to children's eyes by wearing glasses for a long time, but it is not as simple as pure, but also exquisite to stunning pure hand painting style to bring a visual experience that hits the heart.
In addition to the enjoyment brought by aesthetics, the childlike and iconic ethnic elements, full of allegorical and philosophical stories, bring more depth of shock, the film is the last part of the "Irish Folk Tales Trilogy", telling the story of the little girl Robin in order to prove herself to the hunter father and went into the forest alone to find the wolf, but in the forest and the wolf form and magical magic "Wolfwalker" Maeve, who has magical healing powers, and finally joined forces to save the forest from human hands.
Although it is a theme of salvation, the film exudes a childlike atmosphere from beginning to end, and more importantly, it conveys the idea of independent thinking, distinguishing between good and evil and having the courage to pay for friendship, which has excellent guiding significance for children today, just like they found out in "How to Train Your Dragon" that dragons are not all evil, and children realize through Robin that wolves are not the evil villains in the song, which is very important - let children understand that any life has the right to be free and not tamed. Including themselves.
Of course, in this story that contains ecological fables and natural fables, it is also revealed to the audience that greedy human beings will be retaliated by nature, and human beings must live in harmony with nature. For children, this is in line with their aesthetic and emotional needs, and it is a loving care.
The beautiful soundtrack gives the warm story the ability to heal, and the theme song of the film, "Running With The Wolves", is interpreted by the soul of the Norwegian singer Aurora (Aurora), allowing the audience to immerse themselves in it and enter the world of wolfwalkers created by the creators for everyone.
As a well-known film for all ages, the film allows audiences of all ages to find emotional resonance, experience healing magic, abandon the ignorance of blind obedience, and find ways to get along with nature, others and self.