Animation. On The Role Of Image Building

Characters in animation as actors in film, it is a crucial factor to complete animation works. Characters design regularly presented by exaggerated and personated technique. Along with story book, sound effect and dialogue, it tells how the story goes.After 1949, the quest of national style had set on the way while the slogan"To Explore National Style"was proposed by Shanghai Animation Film Studio, which afterwards acquired many achievements. China animation has been developing for about eighty years so far, plenty lively and rich characters were born while Sun Wukong was the most famous one among public.This essay focuses on the original characters design of China animation. How to search the root in Chinese culture and local customs, how to find inspiration in traditional Chinese culture's elements when working on animation characters design. On one hand, the representative characters are created as well as to emerge people's esthetics preference and the sense of value. On the other hand, the distinct fascination of Chinese culture has just rendered in animation works.In summary, the essay stands on the comprehensive analysis of culture mark, time's characteristics and aesthetics qualities, dissecting successful China animation characters design by unified research methodology. In an attempt to create the distinguished China animation characters which shall be memorized in history thereby. The purpose for the research is to be used as a reference point for the development of original China animation.