The Expression And Artistic Tension Of Black Humor In Animation

Black humor is quite unique and distinctive. This paper analyzes the characteristics of black humor first. Then based on some black humor style films, it will discuss the performance level and artistic style and explore the reasons why black humor really impressed the audience. The stories are mostly iconoclastic in black humor style works. The protagonist is usually a lonely nobody. Stories satirize phenomenon of society and some twisted living conditions by comparison and contrast, and elaborate a very serious, very deep social problems, or moral decayed, empty, distorted spiritual world with cynical jokes. The sorties are neither artificial nor hypocritical. They make audience laugh and accept willingly.It seems that black humor style works are cold and creepy, but in fact hidden childlike innocence and real feelings are deeply touching. According to the study of performance level and artistic tension, black humor works with realistic portrayal are not only completed the attack of heavy, indifferent social reality, and also completed interpretation of terror, shadow, darkness, corruption, hypocrisy and deception. The artistic tension of black humor works should be likened to a mirror, trying to make audience look at phantom and live better lives.By the study of characteristic, performance level and artistic tension of black humor,I found out that black humor often put beauty and ugliness,good and evil together,which is seemingly absurd, but really contagious. It dissoloves the art emotional patterns of traditional comedy and tragedy,and create its own art emotional patterns.How to use black humor to our animation creation more properly, that’s the main problem to be solved at this stage.