A Project Report On The E-C Translation Of Vision:Color And Composition For Film(Excerpts)

As a manifestation of cultural soft power,Chinese animation industry has gained rapid development on the way of transformation from outsourcing-based to originality-driven in recent years.Meanwhile,when introducing foreign books,animation book market spares bigger slice for books introducing operating techniques,while books in design philosophy are neglected in consideration of market returns.Vision:Color and Composition for Film is a guidebook in the visual art design of animation films in which eight chapters of the book introduce the most basic eight visual art elements to the readers.Written by famous Disney visual artists,it is a good choice for learning design philosophy.This project report is based on the translation practice of the first four chapters.It analyzes main difficulties the author met in translating vocabulary,sentences and discourse,including proper nouns and terminology,figures of speech,passive voices,long sentences and textual cohesion.Under the guidance of Skopos Theory,the project report concludes the corresponding translation strategies including zero translation,annotation,diction,adaptation,shift of perspective,division and conversion in lexical coherence and grammatical coherence,aiming to provide a reader-friendly rendition,as well as a reference for other translations in the field of animation.