Creation Analysis Of The Cartoon Short Film “Search Of Smoke”

The development history of film is also the development history of its corresponding film screen. From small screen to giant screen, from the two-dimensional plane to the three-dimensional space, the development of screen witnessed the special preferences of audiences in different ages. There were decades of picture proportions in the movie history, while with the development of film photograph equipment and technology, the development tendency of picture proportions becomes wider and wider. In the wide picture proportion films, more information is available for the audience, which promotes the absorption and understanding degree of the films.Original cartoon short film “Search of Smoke" seizes the "love" and "desire" of human beings as the theme. The film uses a man’s ambivalence to quit smoking and a series of quit smoking movements as the bright line of narration, uses the love and helpless of a wife to her husband as the dark line to promote the development of the story, finally completes the mission of making a man quit smoking. What’s more, the film keeps the picture proportion changing according to the need of story development. Due to some suspense ingredient, contents can be revealed early are portrayed in large picture proportion to ensure the audience a clear clue of the story, contents need to be hided are presented in small picture proportion to attract the audience’s attention and make them focus on one point. The intermixed use of picture proportions makes the film a better sense of attraction and suspense.The paper introduces a series of process from early script creation to late drawing formation of the cartoon short film “Search of Smoke". It shows the specific process of making a lattice cartoon short film, and explorers the intermix use of different picture proportions. The paper brings fresh blood to this kind of cartoon short film.