Research On The Creation Of Animation Images In The Oral Folk Stories Of Zouma Ancient Town

The animation industry is hailed as the most promising sunrise industry in the 21 st Century, and in recent years, China has also launched many policies to energetically support the development of the animation industry, it can be seen that the animation works, as the spiritual and cultural product, are playing increasingly important role in promoting economic development, cultivating the audience’s sense of cultural identity, and forming the cultural soft power. For the specific animation works, the key to their success is that whether they can shape a memorable image, and China created many outstanding animation images and works by using the traditional folk culture for reference, and they won people’s favor and the world’s praise. Zouma Ancient Town in Chongqing, which is honored as “the hometown of folk culture”, is an ancient town which is rich in local resources and folk stories, and her oral folk stories were successfully listed into the first batch of national-level intangible cultural heritage in May, 2016, the colorful folk stories provide the unceasing resources for the creation of animation works, and the introduction the oral folk stories of Zouma Ancient Town into the creation of animation art is also the research protection of the oral folk stories of Zouma Ancient Town.In a sense, the animation images have developed into the communication media of the national and folk cultural spirits, therefore, the paper bases on the oral folk stories of Zouma Ancient Town, conducts the research starting from the creation of animation images in the typical oral folk stories, discusses the differences of eyebrows, eyes, mouths, noses, facial forms and bodily forms with different types and styles, and summarizes the meaning and role of the oral folk stories of Zouma Ancient Town in the creation of animation images; based on it, the paper combines the creation cases of animation images of the oral folk stories of Zouma Ancient Town, explores useful information stripped from the oral folk stories and also analyzes the characters’ occupation, age, life level, personality and appearance characteristics from the dialogues among them in these stories; then, searches for the live prototypes or image materials of the images, and lastly, by combining the modern’s aesthetic demands and in the artistic methods of exaggeration and distortion, creates the individualized and aesthetically beautiful animation images.The paper hopes to explore the image characteristics of the oral folk stories and create the animation images with the characteristics of the oral folk stories of Zouma Ancient Town by studying the typical cases of the oral folk stories. Regarding it as an opportunity, the paper studies the image characteristics and rules in the oral folk stories, especially the characteristics and rules in the animation modeling, and provides the referable grounds for the subsequent creation of animation works, and also hopes to provide referable graphic data for the construction of Zouma Ancient Town based on the study on the animation images in the oral folk stories of Zouma Ancient Town. Through the study on the typical animation images and the conceptual presupposition for the possible derivative cartoon products of the animation images, the paper provides effective graphic resources for the tourism economic construction for Zouma Ancient Town, the inheritance and protection of the oral folk stories, and the transmission of the oral folk stories in the Micro-age when the modern multimedia rapidly develops.