How to animate cartoons?

The English Animation of animation comes from the Latin root anima, which means soul, and the verb animare is to give life, which means to make something alive. So animation can be interpreted as making inanimate things move like life through the arrangement of the creator.

Animation production process:

1. Write a script and draw a black and white draft.

2. The continuous action of painting

3. Overlapping characters and backgrounds

colour

Shoot one by one

film

After the final inspection, everyone's favorite animated film is finished!

Animation refers to a work that continuously plays many still pictures at a certain speed (for example, 16 frames per second), and the naked eye mistakenly thinks that the pictures are moving because of visual afterimages. In order to get a moving picture, there will be some subtle changes between each picture. The most common way of painting is hand-painted on paper or celluloid, and other ways include clay sculpture, model, paper puppet, sand painting and so on. Due to the progress of computer technology, there have been many animations drawn directly on the computer by computer animation software or processed by the computer in the process of animation production, which have been widely used in the production of commercial animation.

Usually animation is made by a lot of intensive and boring labor, even though computer animation technology has made great progress and development.

GIF is a picture format that allows you to view animation effects on your computer. Now an animation format commonly used on the Internet is called Flash, which was created by Macromedia. Through this format, you can watch animations on the Internet.

The source of animation

Since the beginning of human civilization, human beings have used various image forms to record the movement of objects and the progress of time.

Prudhommeau, a French archaeologist, pointed out in the research report of 1962 that a series of bison running analysis maps were drawn in stone age caves 25,000 years ago, which is the earliest evidence that humans tried to capture the condensation action with pens (or stones). The same example appears in the murals of ancient Egyptian tombs and the continuous action decomposition diagram on ancient Greek bottles. The concept of "simultaneous action" indirectly expresses human's desire to "move" by drawing actions that occur at different times on a picture. The four arms drawn on Leonardo da Vinci's famous golden ratio human geometry diagram represent the movements of the hands swinging up and down. In the 16th century, the embryonic form of hand-turned books appeared for the first time in the West, which also had something in common with the concept of animation.

In the history of painting in China, artists have always had a tradition of bringing static painting into life, such as the vivid charm advocated in the "Six Methods", and the characters coming out of the scroll in the painting fairy in a serial studio largely rely on imagination to make up for the dynamic. In distant Europe, efforts to move portraits really developed.

animation production

Animation production is a very tedious and arduous work, and the division of labor is extremely detailed. Usually divided into pre-production, production, post-production and so on. The system includes planning, work setting, fund raising, etc. Production includes split mirror, original painting, animation, coloring, background painting, photography, dubbing, recording and so on. After the production is completed, it includes synthesis, splicing and screening.

Tv version: it is an animated version played on TV.