The complete story of tadpoles looking for their mothers.

At the beginning of the film, a beautiful picture album of Chinese painting appeared on the screen. After opening the lid, it is a quiet little scene of the lotus pond. The camera gradually pushes towards the picture, and the music melody of Guqin Pipa is melodious, bringing the audience into a beautiful and lyrical world of ink painting, with tadpoles crawling slowly in the pond.

Spring has come and tadpoles have hatched. They swam happily in the water, and then they saw the chickens on the shore and their mothers were very affectionate. The tadpole was very envious and decided to go to his mother. They met Grandpa Shrimp first and asked him what his mother looked like. Grandpa Shrimp told them that his mother had two big eyes. When the tadpoles saw that the goldfish had two big eyes, they called the goldfish "mother" happily, but the goldfish said that the tadpole's mother had a white belly.

The tadpoles kept looking, and when they saw the crab with a white belly, they called it "mom", but the crab said that mom only had four legs. The tadpoles saw that the turtle had only four legs and thought it was their mother, but the little turtle said it was its mother because it looked like the turtle's mother. Later, the tadpole met the catfish and thought it looked like his mother. As a result, it was almost eaten by the catfish.

At this time, the mother frog came to rescue, and the tadpoles finally found their mother. After a while, they finally grew up to be their mother.

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"Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" is based on the fairy tale of the same name created by Fang and Sheng, and adapted from the image of fish and shrimp created by painter Qi Baishi. It is 1960 Shanghai Animation Film Studio's first ink cartoon in China. Sheng Tewei, Qian Jiajun and Cheng Tang are directors, and Fang and Sheng are screenwriters.

The film tells the story of mother frog leaving after giving birth to tadpole eggs. Tadpole eggs slowly grow tails and become a group of tadpoles. After father shrimp described his mother's characteristics, they decided to go to his mother. Along the way, they mistook goldfish, crabs, turtles and catfish for mothers. Finally, the tadpoles finally found their mother.

1959, trying to make animation in ink style, he found the photographer's section.

Talking about: "Qi Baishi's paintings can be printed on the washbasin and look very realistic. Can you animate? "

The two also found Qian Jiajun, then the chief technician of Meiying Factory, to study together.

At the 1960 China Art Film Exhibition, Chen Yi, then Vice Premier of the State Council, said after listening to the report, "It would be better if Qi Baishi's paintings could be removed."

After the news was sent back to the film studio, they started the ink animation experiment.

The first experimental scene is "a frog jumps off a lotus leaf".

In this way, after exploring the basic method, a larger-scale experiment began. All the original animators in the factory began to make frogs, fish, shrimps, horses and other clips.

Three months later, the "Ink Animation Experiment" was completed, and dozens of seconds of fragments describing different animals formed a short film.

According to the results of the experiment and the needs of shooting, the creative team of Meiying Factory added six or seven links to enrich the plot on the basis of the original three or four story links, and added colorful goldfish images.

1July, 960, the first ink cartoon "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" with a duration of 15 minutes was born.

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1. Little Tadpole Looking for Mom is the first ink cartoon in China. At that time, Shanghai Animation Film Studio put a lot of energy into technical exploration and created this work. Although the particularity of Chinese painting techniques has great difficulties in achieving coherent dynamic effects, it solves this problem through shooting techniques and creates a simple, simple and concise fairy tale world.

2. The creation of the film originated from Mr. Jingda Xu's idea. Qi Baishi's paintings can be printed on the washbasin, which looks very realistic. Can you animate? Vice Premier Chen Yi understood this idea during his visit to Shanghai Animation Film Studio and expressed his support.

3. The prototype of the ink animation "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" comes from the famous ink painting "Frog sound ten miles away from the mountain spring" by the old man Baishi. Fundamentally speaking, the birth of ink animation has its inevitability. It is not only the accumulation and precipitation of the traditional artistic spirit of China by the older generation of animators in China, the important place of traditional ink and wash art, but also the creative passion generated by generate inspired by China's traditional aesthetic concept.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-"Little Tadpole Looking for Mom"