The Research Of The Nationalization Development Trend Of Chinese Animation

Reviewing the course of the development of Chinese animation,within about100years from early twentieth century to1990s, Chineseethnic animation gradually declines from its preliminary establishmentand prosperous. Ethnic animation once made remarkable achievementduring the period of its prosperity. As one of the important parts ofChinese culture and art, Chinese ethic animation not only represents theparticularity of Chinese national art form, but also is permeated with suchculture essence as spirit of traditional culture, national spirit, valueorientation, moral quality, etc. In this sense, it is because the distinctnational characteristics attracts mass appeal around the world that earlyethnic animation achieves such great success. However, since the1990s,the national culture seems to be weak after suffering the strong blow ofwestern culture---its scope gradually shrinks and its audience graduallyevaporate. Due to this, a phenomenon of lack of national characteristicsemerges in animation in this period. A set of changes make ethnicanimation westernized partly with its national characteristics losing, such as westernization in modeling, modernization in substance and weaknessin national spirits. In such case, the nationalization of animation becomesthe inevitable trend of animation development.We must find a way to solve the problem, and improve the levelabout nationalization of Chinese animation fundamentally. First of all,we should learn traditional Chinese culture more deeply. Traditionalculture is food for mind on which we Chinese can rely to make a livingand is also the accumulation and continuation of our national values,outlook on life and world. From the cultural perspective, modern artforms are more in need of the direction of traditional culture than anyother time. Only when the spirit connotation and pursuit of Chineseculture are understood, it can bring continual source of motivation for thecreation of culture and art. At the same time, Chinese animation also neednational spirit as the guide with which animation can embody theenchantment of spirit of Chinese culture. Secondly, it is a necessarymeasure to improve the current situation of the development of animationby digging up traditional themes and combining national tradition withmodern animation. The combination of national elements and modern technique can help Chinese animation enhance advantages and avoiddisadvantages and traditional artistic inspiration to make it reach out tothe world. Thirdly, we should adopt western animation advantages tostrengthen the core connotation of national animation. As a product in thespiritual realm, ethnic animation should embody the core connotation ofour nation and based which we absorb widely the advantages of westernanimation and development experience to play such an effective role as“absorb others’ strengths to offset our own weakness”. Fourthly, Westernculture and Chinese culture should be combined and various demandsshould be considered. If we want to guarantee the continuousdevelopment of ethnic animation, we should take such attitude ofcombing western culture and Chinese culture together and take differentaesthetic styles from different nations and regions into consideration.Only in this way, can we realize the great revival of ethnic animation.Fifthly, national animation creative consciousness should be strengthened.Ethnic animation should absorb continuously modern creative awarenessand be reformed based on nationalization. It should enrich itself withwonderful artistic results from worldwide and gain innovative promotion. As a sunrise industry in the twenty-first century, animationrepresents the development of the advanced creative concept of a nationand reflects the inheritance and innovation of ethnic characteristics. Atpresent, the lack of national element is one of the major problems inChina’s animation development. So doing research on the developmentstatus of animation and bringing an effective way to solve such problemwill enhance the nationalization of Chinese ethnic animation.