Cartoon Character Motion Law Research

As the new favorite in the cultural industry, animation cartoon series draws the attentions of the people more and more since it is developing so fast. The animation industry has been playing more important role under this situation. This leads more people to devote their hearts into it. As an art of performance, the wonderful expression of its detailed dynamic process represents its unique language. On the other hand, this dynamic process is also the core essence on creating the motions and utilizing the law of motion.Based on the performances of the action part of Disney animation, this thesis tries to reveal the law of movement of the characters in animation through studying on the forms of the motions of the cartoons. In this paper, I try to analyze contents and the researches on the subject first. Second, I’ll summarize the basic rules of how to create the movement of a cartoon character, such as the performance of the role, body language, facial expression, movement rhythm, and the movement sense of the character. Furthermore this article will discuss the general rules of the movements of Disney animation. The first part will be the analysis on the forms of the movements such as preparation, buffering, elastic movement, inertia movement, curve movement, etc. The second part will be the analysis of the characteristics of the expressions about the character’s deformation, exaggeration, rhythm, and the shape of the mouth in order to further clarify the basic movement- forms of the character of Disney cartoon.The discussions will start from the general laws and forms of movement of the Disney animation and gradually goes in-depth. What showing in this paper are the abstracts and summarizations of the Disney cartoons and these reveal the movement-forms and the performances of arts of the Disney cartoon character. Moreover, sufficient classic Disney Animations are analyzed especially in regularities of its referenced Disney cartoon characters’ motions.The current situation of animation industry in China needs all the professionals in China to do more in studying the laws of movements in animation. Only by this way we can produce a classic and popular animation cartoon. The end of this article provides an interview with a famous senior Chinese animation veteran who calls for the Chinese animation professionals to devote themselves on examining the movement laws of animation. He hopes that the professionals in China to produce more profound works which may succeed "The Monkey King" or “Havoc in Heaven” which is a very successful Chinese originally-created animation work. Hope we can provide some useful studies for the development of Chinese animation industry and may our country ranks high among the influential animation countries.