Is the art film puppet film?

Like documentaries, feature films and experimental films, animation is also one of the types of movies. It refers to turning an inanimate (inactive) thing into a movie (or TV) and showing it into a living thing. Therefore, animation in a broad sense includes art forms such as "newspaper clippings" and "puppet film". They are also called "art films" or "cartoons" in China. Their most important characteristics are two points:

First, their images are recorded frame by frame with film or video.

Second, the "actions" of these images are created by hallucinations, not existing, and recorded by cameras.

This illusion is the phenomenon of "visual persistence". When people see an object, even if it disappears immediately, it will stay in people's field of vision for about one tenth of a second. This is very important-when the projector projects on the silver screen at a speed of 24 frames per second, or the camera presents an image on the TV screen in a scanning mode of 30 frames per second, it will connect different frames, thus creating the impression that the organism is "moving" in our minds. Therefore, animation master Norman Mclaren said: Animation is not the art of "animation", but the art of "painting movement".

Obviously, in the production of cartoons, the significance of studying how an object moves (including its trajectory, direction and time required) is far greater than the consideration of single picture arrangement-although the latter is also so important. So we should pay more attention to "the effect between each frame and the next" than every frame. From here, we can also see the main differences between animation and comics. And why an excellent painter can only become a truly excellent animator after years of hard study and exploration. The appeal feature of comics is obviously not limited to "for children", although it is indeed an appropriate and important way for children's movies. In fact, Europe, America and Japan have long had many animation works with serious themes and profound techniques. However, there are too few introductions in China, let alone attempts. Comics can be children's cartoons, adult fables, or even expressions of abstract art. We really know too little about her and what she has done.

On the Making of Animation —— The Division of Animation

1. Original work or plan: A person who creates an original script, story or novel.

2. Script: The detailed work of making a script or novel, including character dialogue, scene switching, time division, etc.

3. Director: Director, a movie depends on him!

4. Painting supervision: responsible for the whole painting style. This is a big selling point!

5. Art supervision: responsible for the setting of the whole background picture.

6. Photography supervisor: the person responsible for the process of making pictures into negatives.

7. Sound supervisor: the person responsible for dubbing, effect sound and music editing.

8. Performance: According to the director's style, draw a mirror table with very simple lines to explain the movements and scenes of the characters.

9. Role setting: Role setting, setting the role of a cartoon!

10. mechanical setting: mechanical setting, setting the machines in animation such as tables, chairs, robots, etc.

1 1. Design draft: Draw the mirror table as a draft close to the original painting, and tell the original painting how to do it, usually with the director's instructions on it.

12. Original painting: The person who draws the main actions such as characters in the painting according to the design draft has strong modeling ability and good painting foundation. (Some domestic animation processing companies have this person, and the number is relatively small. )

13. supervision: correct the mistakes of the original painting and correct the bad parts of the original painting (extremely high level).

14. background: the type of work that paints scenes should have a certain understanding of gouache and watercolor.

14. Animation: it is the main part of the whole animation and affects the quality of the whole animation. The department with the largest number of people is the most basic link, and it is also the department with the most tiring work and the longest time.

15. Action test: The key to ensure the quality of cartoons is to have a strong action concept, spatial imagination and a good painting foundation! More tiring work than animation!

16. color designation: the person who designates the color. It is also more troublesome.

17. Master Shang (pictured above): People who paint, people who move animation to the track to paint, like animation, are the most basic departments, with the largest number of people, and do not need a high painting foundation, as long as they are not color blind! There is a computer that can paint.

18. General school: check the person who describes the quality of work.

19. Shooting: the department that shoots color Cellu films.

20. Editing: Editing after the film is made. Some shots will be deleted here.

2 1. seiyuu (dubbing): dubbing. A department that everyone is familiar with.