The Element Of Chinese Opera Mask Applied In Art Of Animation

Facial makeup in opera is facial decoration design for characters, which has strongerpatterning and decorative forms of beauty. Facial makeup artistic design has adopted Chinesetraditional cultural elements and is the result of designers’annealing, practicing, observing,forming, deforming and exaggerating to their real life for more than one thousand years. Thisessay tries to give a insight into the aesthetic characteristics and explore the application offacial makeup elements into animation art from artistic modeling and inner spirit.This essay selects representative facial makeup animated cartoons Arrogant General、Havocin Heaven、Nezha Conquers the Dragon King、the Legend of Sealed Book etc. as focal pointto make instant analysis research.Form design of animation is the basis of animated cartoon creation. Seeking for suitable formmood and language is the critical part of making form design become animation creation,which can display the unique artistic style of animation. Therefore, first of all, this essaymakes a summary of role character that facial makeup in opera models from the aspects ofthe form of facial making up in opera and type modularity. Then it analyzes Chineseanimation cartoons is impacted by traditional cultural elements and public aesthetics culture,created roles of different times and makes comparative analysis to several animation cartoonswhose dominate roles are Sun wukong and Nezha. At last, the essay draws the conclusionthat the problem that Chinese animation role form need solve is how to take advantage ofChinese traditional form elements to create pleasing animation roles characteristic of Chinaunder the circumstances of animation language’s increasing internationalization andpopularization and meanwhile highlight and follow Chinese Charm in the aspects of value、custom、aesthetic philosophy and so on. The purpose is to vigorously promote thedevelopment of Chinese animation industry and in the aspects of role modeling find outfactors which is likely to explore and the prospective developing approaches for the Chineseanimation cartoons which are exploring their own development orientation. This is also thevalue of my analysis in this essay.