Characteristics of two-dimensional animation
The characters depicted in the earliest cartoons were all replicas of real photos or films. Because people didn't grasp the movement law of characters at that time, they could only simply copy the movements of real characters, but animators have been exploring and studying in the description.
During this period, the action of animated characters copied the action of real characters without any artistic exaggeration, which seriously restricted the expressive force of animated characters and affected the expressive force of the whole film. There is no sense of rhythm, animated characters have no distinct personality characteristics, the characters are pale, and the plot development is relatively dull.
After a period of development, animation has become an independent and all-encompassing visual media art, and the production procedures are gradually streamlined. Scientific work distribution makes the action of the role more complicated. First of all, we should copy the real performance object for a long time, systematically observe and copy the image, structure, habits and habitual actions of the role, and then exaggerate the elements that contribute to the image and personality of the role. At this time, the creation of character movements should be refined after the above-mentioned artistic exaggeration, and then the key characteristic movements should be drawn, and then different numbers of intermediate fragments should be drawn between these key fragments according to the different rhythms of the characters. This is the key frame method that has been used to this day.
This dynamic creation method of animated characters scientifically sets out from life, refines and shapes a dynamic and distinct character, and makes the means to realize the role action more scientific and effective. Under the trend of large-scale industrial production of animation, this creative method based on key films has been used to this day. This is what we call two-dimensional animation.
The film created in this way has a strong sense of rhythm in plot development, smooth movements of characters and distinctive personality, which makes it easier for the audience to feel the spiritual realm that animators want to convey after artistic processing and refining. But this method also has its weakness, that is, it is difficult to show the subtle and true details of the role, which also makes it an obstacle to the performance of the role's inner activities.
The Style of 2D Animation and Its Aesthetic Significance
Two-dimensional animation is a unique artistic form and cultural form. In the post-modern era of consumption and visual experience, animation art has become the best visual entertainment lifestyle, which contains infinite cultural value and commercial value. Two-dimensional animated character is a visual symbol with meaningful artistic form, which reflects the development of character image, national aesthetic culture and science and technology, and is recognized by more people with its unique form and aesthetic value. The bizarre visual images and animated images of animated characters show exaggerated and distorted visual aesthetic tension; Bright colors, cartoon-like shapes and strong sense of movement highlight the strong visual pleasure of the senses; The humorous virtual image satisfies people's pleasure and passion for experience.
Throughout the 20th century, China's animation, from the earliest Wan Brothers' Troubled Studio to 1955' s Why the Crow is Black, from 196 1' s Troubled Paradise (as shown in Figure 3- 1) to "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother", This is the significance of animation modeling to animation. Perhaps animation modeling can not be absolutely called the soul of an animation, but it is the most convincing endorsement of an animation.
Excellent animated character modeling is the foundation of the success of an animated film. Unique animation modeling can make people appreciate and understand animation from a new starting point, experience the form of artistic beauty and vent their personal feelings.
How to design a successful animation model requires designers to observe, ponder and make bold choices, refine common actions in life and create accurate and refreshing action symbols.
Animated characters are visual images of "painted movements" and are unique, intangible, vivid and lifelike "actors".
Nowadays, as a part of cultural and creative industries, the animation industry has brought rapid development to the entertainment economy, and the box office of animation and the commercial value of animation characters have also become the focus of attention. The extension industry development of animation role image is particularly prominent in animation power countries. They noticed that an animated character is not only a molded image, but also has cultural and economic benefits like an Oscar star. In China, the shaping and development of animation art and visual image of animation characters are still in a relatively backward situation, which is mainly manifested in the fact that the characteristics of animation characters are not clear enough, the entertainment is not strong enough, the actions are blunt, the technology content is low, and the combination of traditional national culture and modern language is poor. It is urgent to improve the visual value of cartoon characters, which is of far-reaching significance for spreading national culture and developing cartoon creative industries.
Application of 3D and 2D Animation
Animation market is a very broad market, the audience vertically includes people of all ages, and horizontally includes people of various living conditions and social backgrounds. In terms of audience positioning, Japan, which is separated only by a strip of water from us, has successful experience worth learning from. Japanese anime is very ideological, so it is classified by age. When I was young, the robot cat walked out of children's field of vision and into children's hearts to find children's concerns, excitement and anxiety, to respect it, to identify with it, to echo it, to shape characters and express things with childlike interest, so as to enrich personality and develop a considerable depth of human nature. The slightly larger Rogue Mark not only touched children, but also awakened the hearts of adults who still have childlike innocence. This * * * is a combination of complex experiences of adults and deeper feelings of the object, which is the most important experience for it to win the audience. If you win the audience, you win the whole international market.
Although commercialization is very important to the animation industry, it is not the first and only attribute of animation, but the soul of animation is the key to its success. Each country's animation works will have their own characteristics and styles in combination with their own national culture, such as humor and randomness in the United States, lightness and romance in France, rigor and philosophy in Germany. Accurately finding the style characteristics suitable for one's own nation is the primary problem faced by animation creation.