The role modeling art in stop-motion animation

The role modeling art in stop-motion animation

Lead: In a large number of excellent domestic and foreign freeze-frame animation works, many excellent character modeling and unique character setting are the symbols of an animation, and the art of character modeling is an important aspect of character modeling. Through animation works, the artistic characteristics of itself are subtly conveyed to the audience, so that people can fully understand the aesthetic significance and expression intention of the author, thus achieving * * *. Let me introduce the role modeling art in stop-motion animation for you, hoping to help you!

First, the application and grasp of plastic arts in stop-motion animation

The production of stop-motion animation originated from the shooting technique of America 1907. At that time, a technician created the "frame-by-frame shooting method" in the form of frame-by-frame shooting and introduced it into animation shooting technology. Broadly speaking, stop-motion animation is a kind of film and television animation with comprehensive materials to shape the film content and frame-by-frame shooting as the photography style.

(A) the artistic characteristics of stop-motion animation connotation

1. Features of stop-motion animation

As a kind of animation art, stop-motion animation has unique artistic charm and attraction. It is a phenomenon based on the principle of human vision, and it is completed according to the display of 24 frames per second, which highlights the original charm of animation art. In the development process of 100 years, animation art has not disappeared, but has further developed and perfected its own artistic characteristics through the combination of modern technology and computer animation technology.

First of all, the form of stop-motion animation depends on the material characteristics of the material itself. Clay, puppets, puppets and paper dolls are widely used in stop-motion animation. Therefore, rich materials give animators room to create. In addition, due to the rich characteristics of materials, the artistic forms of stop-motion animation are also varied. In the production project of stop-motion animation, animators strive to create great animation works, so that the audience can feel their excellent imagination and artistic atmosphere for stop-motion animation from the animation works, so the materials of stop-motion animation are close to people's lives and the artistic characteristics are more easily accepted by people. Secondly, due to the high production and shooting cost of the stop-motion animation itself, frame-by-frame shooting is adopted in the production process, so the film time cannot be easily modified or changed. This requires an animator to have a clear shooting process and a high production level in his creation. The requirements for animators' personal technical level and artistic accomplishment are stricter, and even a slight mistake will lead to rework, so this is one of the reasons why the output of stop-motion animation is low but the film quality is high. For example, the American stop-motion cartoon "Corpse Bride" took ten years to produce, during which the process of scene processing and fine-tuning the facial expressions of the characters lasted for one year. Moreover, the scenes and characters of stop-motion animation are all miniature versions, and the shooting difficulty gradually increases with the content of the story. Animators coordinate these elements from the perspective of God, which is also regarded as the charm of stop-motion animation.

2. Grasp the role-building in stop-motion animation.

In order to reflect the artistic charm and powerful expressive force of stop-motion animation, it is particularly important to grasp the role-shaping. The reason why designers of stop-motion animation can make animated characters and audiences make sounds is closely related to the works themselves and shooting techniques. Those materials and objects that can be seen everywhere in life are used and transformed or even illogical combinations, thus showing the feelings that the author wants to express and laying the foundation for the realism of the whole film. The artistic characteristics of character modeling in freeze-frame animation should be consistent with animation. From the formulation of artistic style in the early stage to the selection of materials in the middle stage, as well as the production and special effects in the later stage, designers have unified various elements of film and television animation, especially the shaping of characters, based on scripts, supplemented by personal design styles and storylines, which fundamentally laid the foundation for stop-motion animation.

(B) the artistic expression of role setting in stop-motion animation

The overall performance and impression of role modeling are basically determined by artistic style. We often limit the protagonist of stop-motion animation to cartoon characters or animals, which is a narrow understanding of role modeling. Sometimes, influenced by the freedom of the theme of stop-motion animation, the protagonist is likely to be refined into an object closely related to our lives. He may be a book, a set of toys, some pieces of hard bread, or some plants. Under the established shooting style, the designer will consider the audience, social class, age and other factors of the work, so the artistic style of freeze-frame animation character modeling is not uniform, and his diversity brings rich visual experience. Compared with traditional cartoons, stop-motion animations at home and abroad mostly rationally distinguish the sense of reality in traditional cartoons, but this does not mean that the role of stop-motion animation is illusory and unfounded. Because of its diverse materials and specific artistic style, it is only easier to be accepted by people. Some works show more humanistic care behind approachable characters, and pay more attention to nationalization and traditional modeling. The diversified artistic style of role modeling has become a means for artists to convey their feelings and express their intentions.

Second, the uniqueness of China's stop-motion animation role modeling

In freeze-frame animation, the initial stage of character creation is less influenced by 3D production and post-production, and even production is rough. Compared with the current mature 3D animation and 2D animation, it is more the content of the freeze-frame animation itself. For example, China Shanghai Animation Film Studio produced a series of stop-motion animation "Flowers in the Mirror and Water in the Moon", which broke the previous concept of rejuvenation of comics and discussed the bizarre things encountered at sea from multiple angles. The story is rich in content and the characters are full of personality. In the film, the attitude towards humanity, life and ethics is extended by easy-to-understand paragraphs, and there are many crazy moves, interspersed with black humor, and more thinking while laughing. This is also the performance of specific characters in stop-motion animation.

Happy Town is the first full-length stop-motion cartoon in China. Based on the northern towns of China, the film vividly depicts the daily life of the northern towns in the 1920s by vividly portraying and grasping the characters, which is deeply loved by the audience. The main characters in the film are made of new resin materials, and the production team combines the invariance of metal skeleton with the realistic modeling of resin to make their role performances vivid.

Even figure plastic arts are the core of stop-motion animation and the key factor to attract audiences and open the market. 1956, China's first international prize-winning puppet stop-motion animation "Magic Pen" opened the door to stop-motion animation in China. The film's excellent character modeling, unique artistic style and strong national flavor are impressive, including the use of traditional China clay sculpture, wood carving and other modelling technique, which combines traditional art with stop-motion animation and creates a new shooting method that can replace traditional puppets.

At present, the development of stop-motion animation in China is inseparable from our traditional culture and the cultural essence of the Chinese nation. I shouldn't just copy and imitate foreign classic anime works. I should not only accept the successful influence of foreign classic stop-motion animation, but also clear my mind, bring forth new ideas and stick to the road of stop-motion animation with China traditional cultural characteristics.

Third, the artistic expression of different stop-motion animation characters.

(A) the traditional clay animation modeling

In stop-motion animation, the materials used in character modeling will affect the audience's aesthetic feelings and become the focus of the whole work. The characters in the stop-motion animation Mary and Marx are like clay dolls made of plasticine in childhood, with huge heads, petite bodies, long hands and feet, stubby fingers, exaggerated facial features, fingerprints, uneven neckline and other obvious manual marks. Because this shape is not conducive to smooth and delicate movements, the movements of most characters will appear clumsy or even exaggerated. But this sense of reality can move people's hearts and make the author and audience reach the sound of * * *.

Clay, as one of the materials used in many stop-motion animations, is highly plastic, but the characters are relatively rough. For example, in the stop-motion animation "Super Invincible Dog", Ago and his owner are all made of clay. In some shots, several fingerprints can always be seen on the surface of the character, but it does not affect the vivid movements of the character. It is these simple details that reflect the realism of traditional clay sculpture, which brings the audience closer to the work and makes the audience feel the beauty behind the work.

An excellent role modeling, while deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, can not only impress the audience, but also bring about a chain reaction. For example, well-known American cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in Transformers, Hello Kitty in Japanese cartoon characters, and Saint saint seiya, etc. We know the characters through a large number of works, and at the same time, the characters are also influenced by the narrative of animation works, so they are recognized by us. With a broad sense of identity, it will lay the foundation for the commercial image of the character itself, and the accompanying peripheral products and advertising effects will transform the character in the work into a commercial logo and become an integral part of the animation industry. Therefore, in stop-motion animation, the role-building becomes particularly important.

(2) Organic combination with 3D computer

With the rapid development of modern science and technology, 3D software provides a brand-new platform for traditional stop-motion animation. The organic combination with computer software technology can not only make the film unique, but also make the characters' modeling novel and lively. For example,

DreamWorks successfully created Chicken Run, that is, the famous British Aderman company adopted the newly developed professional software StopMohon. Pro shoots frame by frame; The animation master Henry Serik even created the world's first 3D stop-motion animated film "Ghost Mom", which used Maya's stereoscoplc 3D (stereoscopic 3D technology). The head micromachining technology used by tim burton in the production of Corpse Bride can make the puppet make slight expression changes when necessary.

In recent years, with people's demand for products, some animation companies have opened up new fields and applied stop-motion animation to commercial advertisements, which undoubtedly brought consumers a brand-new visual experience, high-quality production level, and organic combination with three-dimensional technology, which broke the traditional mindset and broke through the ideological framework of traditional stop-motion animators. If the film and television animation based on stop-motion animation follows the story, then the stop-motion animation based on commercial advertisements is artistic. Although the two forms of expression are unified, different commercial advertisements need innovative design of the main content. This is also determined by the business environment, which is another challenge for animators. The application of digital technology in the creation of stop-motion animation not only produces complementary effects, but also creates a new situation of stop-motion animation.

Although computer software can simulate most of the contents of stop-motion animation, it still can't 100% restore the realism of the work, because the software needs to be manually adjusted to approach the real shooting, and its material performance, lens use and story narrative techniques will be limited by the development of computer software. Compared with the works made by software, the general stop-motion animation is not delicate, rich, gorgeous and convenient, but it is precisely because of these seemingly clumsy processes that the real and interesting side of stop-motion animation and its simple performance are reflected.

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No matter what form of stop-motion animation, it will convey some emotions or feelings or cognition of the world through character shaping and picture performance. With the help of modern production software, animators are performing their own artistic style on the stage of stop-motion animation. As we all know, opportunities and challenges coexist. How to find the positioning of stop-motion animation in the future with constantly updated technology and rich and diverse materials, how to express new themes with new materials and show new artistic images to the audience from a new perspective will all be problems that we need to consider in the future. Only in this way can stop-motion animation be constantly innovated and bring people more beautiful visual beauty.

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