Application Of Animation To Fashion Design

In the era of rapid development of human civilization and of tech-information from industrialization, digital design with its unique power has become an inevitable means and method for modern design. It also functions as a link, providing a platform for the interacting of various types of arts and designs, and being beneficial for mutual influences and borrows between fields of arts.In the recent decade, new professional characteristics have continually sprung up in the field of fashion around the world. The stage of fashion, which used to be only for clothing designers, is now for people of various fields to show their dreams. Fashion illustration, cartoon figures, figure settling and website images related to fashion and clothing are called new areas of fashion design. The relation and permeation of fashion conceptions into various design cultures can be easily seen. At the same time, the inspirations brought about by other design arts are also steadily developing. While the traditional flat arts and architecture are the required courses for clothing designers, digital animation and cartoon bring in their unique conceptions of color, modeling, and decoration for clothing design as well as richer techniques for flat expression.Digital animation is soaring up in its development and spread both at home and abroad. The development of role animation, its tide and its popularity have exerted wide influence on people's life attitudes and aesthetic manners. Role settling has formed an independent segment in the cartoon production process. This specialized demand attaches more importance to the application of clothing design ideas.In this paper, the author analyzes the directive function of clothing design on human image shaping, interprets the present state of cartoon figure clothing design and the mutual influence between them, and points out the inspirations brought about to clothing designers through the combination of cartoon and fashion, taking cartoon figure modeling for instance, combining the development of cartoon field and being supported by a large number of samples. Finally, the author presents a new approach for the clothing design development through the demonstration of the relation between fashion and cartoon.