A Study On 3D Animated Film The Ontology And The Culture

Since the mid-nineties of last century,3D animated film has developed rapidly. It has quickly emerged as the most attractive animated film type. Compared with the creative practice, the theoretical research of 3D animation lags behind. Most of the researches which belong to the technology research are lack of theoretical and cultural analysis,3D animated film needs for systematic theory integration urgently. This dissertation strives to build the cultural dimension of 3D animated film study through the analysis of its ontology and cultural on the base of the film theory and cultural theory.The ontology of 3D animated film can be analyzed through the concept, type, aesthetics and cultural logic.3D animation needs to be distinguished in concept between those similar concepts often used to replace it as "three-dimension animation", "computer animation", "3D movie" and to be defined from the technical and artistic.3D animation is distinguished as a legitimate type because of its difference from model-media in the "moving" and "painting".The aesthetic qualities of "Visual realism" strengthen 3D animation in the visual spectacle and the emotional highlight.3Danimation has a distinct cultural logic which shows the "dedifferentiation" on the longitudinal analysis of the history of animated films.As the animation type evolved from the traditional animation,3D animation is limited by the constraints and the norms of traditional animation on the one hand. While the other hand, it has the tendency of aesthetic innovation because it overloads the value of digital technology. Statute and Innovation form the aesthetic tension of 3D animated film. On trace of the resource of the social culture, being Digital, the situation of United States'animation, the consumer society and its "Visual Culture" and the emotional dimensions in post-modern social shaped the 3D animation and its aesthetic form. As one kind of popular art,3D animated film can not avoid to accepting their cultural context which has limited the role of production, and represents its social and cultural context. The "meaning", the "distance" and the "object" becoming weakened all follow this logic and represent the social cultural characteristics. At the same time 3D animation shows the distinct ideological function because of its one-dimension "affirmative culture" and cultural imperialism.The healthy development of 3D animated film needs reconstruction. The possibility of reconstruction exists in the combination of the so-called "amateur-style" intellectuals and the liberating power.