Digital Research And Application Of Shadow Play

As in Chinese folk art, Shadow play has a long and extensive history; it's also described as an exotic flower of Chinese folk culture. Shadow play is a special form of entertainment, visual images, beautiful and rich melodies and also fascinating plot that make it a special charm. But with the development of society, this unique artistic charm is gradually disappeared among the people's sight. As the world of material and non-material cultural heritage protection work started in China, the state of the material and non-material cultural heritage protection have begun to attach great importance to the art of shadow play. Shadow play has become a "non-material cultural heritage protection" in one of the important content.How can traditional shadow play their way into cities, and even to the world, and to give new vitality and meaning of traditional shadow play is something we must thoroughly consider. Although the use of digital art is still in the protection of Shadow Art at preliminary trial stage, but no doubt that the digital performance of the shadow play can overcome the limitations of the methods and communication channels, and it also a true reproduction of the shadow play principle, and compared to the handiwork Film production, the production of digital shadow will be more convenient, and this production can also meet the different needs of the audience to modify arbitrary. In this way, we can not only break the traditional arts as a heavy shadow, but also gives it a lot of modern pop elements.More importantly, we can make shadow play through modern network (not just the shadow play itself) spread throughout the world, to be more accepted and loved by the people. This paper describes the development of digital art and types of introduction, and to how digital art can be applied in the shadow play, such as: use of digital technology museum for shadow play to build a digital platform to enable people to have a deeper understanding and knowledge of shadow play to achieve the purpose of protection and propagation.The application of digital shadow play is moving to new directions to achieve the artistic heritage of the shadow play, and protection of the shadow of this ancient folk art with the digital art can go further under the influence.