The Application Of Chinese Traditional Drawing Color Theory In Animation Painting Color

The traditional art is the essence of a nation, which is the best part in its years’ accumulation.With the time passing by, people’s aesthetic standard is also changed. People’s ideas and valuejudgment must be affected by their local cultural traditions. Meanwhile, the artistic design style ofcartoon will also have an influence on people’s artistic creations.The animation is an art form which combines modern science and technology with local tradition.However, Chinese cartoon is lagging behind during the developing period of technology for thereason that it did not combine well with Chinese culture. If China wants to revive its glory ofanimation in the diversified world, it must do a systematic research of various national fine artselement and make up its own creative ideas and system. The Drawing Color theory is about how topaint color in Chinese painting, whose connotation is far beyond the article concerned. It can beutilized very much in Chinese animation. The cartoon designer must work hard to research the oldartistic tradition if they aspire to let Chinese animation has a international competitiveness in theaspects of content, shape, color and so on. They must apply it into new artistic pattern ofmanifestation, and therefore can make it once again bursting out with a new vitality.