Fox and Whale is a very peculiar animation, and you can even think of it as a kind of yoga pilot film that relaxes the mind. Because this animation is so beautiful. There is no ups and downs of the plot, no profound action, just the peace and comfort of nature.
In that natural world, foxes, rabbits, fish and tadpoles, plants grow freely and complement animals. What exactly should life be like? If you want to slow down your life, then this animation is a great fit.
However, the most intoxicating nature of this animation is not to appear, and there is also the interpretation and interpretation of the beauty of the artistic conception of this animation.
You know, artistic beauty was a unique sense of beauty that appeared in traditional Chinese art culture at the beginning. Compared with the real or even very full beauty, the aesthetic beauty is more illusory, because you can't tell where its beauty is, and all the feelings of beauty are derived from your thinking imagination and then appear in things.
The first to interpret this beauty are Chinese animation creators, classic works such as "Landscape and Water" and other animations. But unfortunately, China's emphasis on this kind of animation is not as good as abroad. So the beauty of this mood can also be regarded as "plundered", right?
You know, the space for the expansion of the beauty of this artistic conception is very large.
<h1>Whales exist in the heart of the fox</h1>
Before analyzing the aesthetic beauty of this animation, let's look at the plot first. You know, aesthetic beauty is a very unique sense of beauty. Even the great poets and literary heroes of ancient China, they mainly attacked the aesthetic beauty, but not all of them were able to successfully create the artistic beauty. For this beauty is unspeakable.
The creators of "The Fox and the Whale" used a very clever angle to interpret the beauty of the artistic conception. That is, the whale is a fantasy in the heart of the fox. That is to say, as a land creature, the fox is not satisfied with the exploration of land, it wants to go to the ocean. The whale that rolls in the void is the externalization of the fox's inner thoughts.
Whenever whales appear, that's when the fox fantasizes that he can run into the ocean. But to be honest, if you want to say that the intention is beautiful, it is still necessary to count that Chinese poetry is more imagery. The same is true of landscapes and rivers, where the imagery is still only superficial. Don't want those poets in ancient poetry, poets can turn a mountain, a river and a love story into an image of beauty. But animation is very difficult if it wants to show imagery.
Because the imagery itself is a unique aesthetic thinking with the fantasy of thinking as the main thing. It is difficult to express in words, but landscape painting can easily express it. Therefore, when the animation "Fox and the Whale" expresses imagery, it may also draw a little inspiration from landscape paintings, so we can see that in the inner world of foxes, there are several typographies like in landscape paintings.
<h1>Unique beauty: nothingness</h1>
Why is Chinese ink painting so fairy? This is not only related to the level of the painter, but also related to the development of ink painting to form a unique way of composition.
If you have carefully observed the ink painting, it is not difficult to find that the ink painting of the scene is somewhat flat, and sometimes the things you see in the ink painting do not correspond to the beauty in reality. Western painting is different, it pays attention to painting things in the objective world, while Eastern aesthetics focuses on painting the beauty in their own eyes.
Therefore, it is not difficult to find that in the ink paintings about the landscape, the mountains are all painted in the paintings with black ink traces. Those who stand on the mountain see a limited world, and the mountain they see is also limited. But in the eyes of those painters, mountains are one plus one.
Aesthetic beauty is to play the fantasy to the extreme, to contain the whole world in a person's mind. This kind of beauty is the most difficult kind of beauty. So it can shock people's hearts. Looking back at the current methods used by animation to express the beauty of the artistic conception, it is actually very simple, that is, to use smoke and other more illusory things to express the beauty of the blank but not empty.
And why did the creators of the fox and whale animation choose these two animals? In fact, this is also related to the whale itself. To know that whales are large mammals that live in the ocean, people always have a lot of illusions about this kind of incredible thing that lives in the deep sea.
Because the creature of the whale is so much in line with people's fantasies about loneliness, nothingness, and some sad emotions that cannot be expressed. Whales are also listed as the loneliest creatures in the world because of their huge size, and as long as it has a mouth, almost all fish will be swallowed by it. Whales don't talk, and whales don't flock to.
Listen to the sound of the whales in the ocean, this ancient and beautiful creature, conveying its loneliness to everyone. But no one and no creature can understand what it's talking about, and the loneliest thing in the world is not that you're sitting alone on a bench and you're surrounded by two friends chatting.
It's that no matter what you say or do, you will find that the world will not give you any response. So although the whale is the expression of human emotions, it is still independent of the existence of the human heart, swimming alone in the ocean of thought. Be the loneliest soul in the world.
Foxes are very spiritual, but the existence of human beings will inevitably involve a lot of negative emotions, so this animation takes the fox as the protagonist, one has aura, one is ethereal, and the combination of the two is to move the fairyland of the world to people's eyes.
<h1>Imagery is to weaken the realism of the world</h1>
But "The Fox and the Whale" is still just an attempt at imagery. Its imagery beauty is entirely based on whales, and the animation chooses to weaken the sense of realism of the world in order to express the beauty of imagery, and this animation is only represented by the linearization of the appearance of living things. For example, the head of a fox is drawn in a triangle. This way of drawing creatures with a very obvious sense of line and angles undoubtedly helps this animation to weaken a lot of real-world feelings. But at the same time, it also gives people a subtle sense of discomfort. The animation is undoubtedly full of depictions of the natural world, but at the same time, the beauty of three different styles is combined, but there is no close connection, which will make the whole animation present a loose feeling, which makes people confused.
However, just an image beauty is believed to be enough to impress all the Oscar animation award judges.