Animation Director And Artistic Language

In the animation artistic world,people can relax themselves in the childhood context through a illusory story,obtaining a unique aesthetic experience.Being distinguished from the traditional film and television creation,the animation is a kind of painted story.Although subordinated to the film and TV art,animation artistic language has its own characteristic.The animation director is the key person of animation creation, grasping the entire animation work's artistic quality and leading the whole team's work.The animation director's creative thought has three characteristics such as the iconicity,the hypothesis,the speculation, simultaneously he also must have rich qualities on imagination,accurate molding ability and remarkable leadership.The animation director can not work without artistic language and the animation language is a multi-skilled language system,it may divided into three levels according to it's function status,the first level is the formal language,including basic artistic forms such as line,color,composition,music sound,the second level is the image language,the third level is the implication expression.The animation language system may divide into three parts specifically,namely animation molding language,animation narrative language and animation performance language.The animation molding languages descent from the traditional fine arts molding language,but because the hypothesized and dynamic narrative request,there are same new characteristics such as hypothesized,narrative performing,concise quality,exaggerating,moving rhythmic comparing with the fine arts. This article carries on the analysis from the static molding and the dynamic molding two aspects.From the static angle,we may analyze the animation molding and the fine arts molding inheritance relations,the static molding form element;from the dynamic angle,we carry on the discussion in the analysis dynamic molding form element foundation and the dynamic molding essential skill.The animation narrative language is one kind of seeing and hearing montage language with rich animation characteristic.Same to the general film and TV works,the animation is composed of lens and must object to the montage structure and editing principles,but as a result of the animation unique hypothesis,it presents some new characteristics.Animation performance language give life to the characters.This article firstly summarized the mechanics principals and summed up the characteristics comparing with film and TV's live performances,and then show the design steps in clarity such as figures,animal role action,expressions of natural phenomena design,while highlighted the performance experience of the creators.Shooting scriptAll the idea of animation directors must be pointed to the form of the Shooting script.In this paper's last chapter we discussed the role,basis and mapping requirements of the Shooting script.