Research On 3D Animated Film In Contemporary America

In 1995, the first 3D animated film in the world was born, which is produced by the Pixar Animation Studio and issued by the Walt Disney Company. This film has only 30 million dollars budget, but finally got 192 million dollars box-office, which has refreshed the boxoffice records of the animated film. It also became a North American box-office champion, which has made a 360 million dollars in worldwide box-office record. Since then, the new technology of 3D became to be the most popular tools for making the commercial animated film in the United States. The large production and distribution film companies have started their transformation and began to follow the Pixar, they all attempted to produce the animated film in 3D technology. The Pixar, as the first one to use 3D technology, continuously improve the quality of the 3D film, which depended on his extensive technology and art teams. The Dream Works who threat Disney as a competitor, expend rapidly to be a huge animation kingdom through the development model of high investment-high return. Blue sky, as a rising star, accumulate popularity for himself successfully by Ice Age, and begin to expanding their own animation Empire. As time goes on, these three animation studios became the largest studios in the American animation community. So we choose this three companies, and make a horizontal comparison study between them to find out the specials for each of them in the process of 3D animated film. Summarize their successful experiences, so as to give inspiration to Chinese animation.The paper is divided into five parts. The first chapter is introduction, which discusses the development of American 3D animated film in this moment, and the current research situation in China and abroad. The innovation of this paper is the way of comparative study. From the second to the fifth chapter, is the most important part of this paper. Through the comparison of produce agency, text creation, artistic designing, audio-visual language between the three studios, we could get some conclusions. Last chapter is the enlightenment to Chinese animated film. Firstly, analyzing the current situation of Chinese animated film, then looking for suitable beneficial factors of Chinese animated film creation according to the American 3D animated film creation. Thus, to provide references for the development of Chinese animated film.