Lost And Trace-"Image" Thought In Creation Method Of Animation

The“Image”thought is a traditional thinking of China, and its characteristics is the originality. Although it had conducted in the field of philosophy during recent years, but it have not linked to artistic creation and animation directly.In fact, Chinese art was deeply influenced by the spirit of it, so research the“Image”thought will play great significance in elucidate the unique thinking of Chinese.Review the Chinese traditional creation method,“Read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles, and then can draw". In picture-story books and Warriors and Horses , the“Image”thought use is everywhere. The Line Drawing was emphasis on realism, vivid, and with a strong artistic influence, and the pictures requiring continuous, Props, architecture, clothing must matches the history. It looked in to portrayed details like scenery, props and characters. And Warriors and Horses are the indispensable elements of creation picture-story books.Now the Chinese animation has developed by the modern product with“Reading Pictures”. As the producer of animation whose growing up and wacthed cartoons by Japanese and occidental, are affected in“the picture reading era”,can only in search of examples from Japan and occidental when they in animation creations, and it will get into a fatal resultwhen the creative thorghts are repressed. Therefore, we must return to classical to dig in our perceptive of traditional, original thoughts.