What's the difference between film photography and animation photography?

The reason why movies are popular art in the era of mechanical reproduction lies in their fundamental revisability. This correction lies in the arrangement of film content and the editing of intention.

However, the modification of animated films is stronger than that of live-action films, because animated films are "painted" by professional animators under the framework of scripts, and there are no realistic elements in them. The painting director and production designer transformed the invisible script content into a visible picture through a similar way of "describing reality". Finally, all the dubbing and original painting were integrated by the executive director to make a complete animated film. Because of this, many people have always regarded animation as a lightweight film with fantastic colors, such as 5 cm per second and Valley of the Wind. When it comes to the difference between animated films and live-action films, the fantasy of animated films is often emphasized.

But in my opinion, the difference between animated films and live-action films lies in the perspective. Here, we restore the movie in real life to its realistic level, because of the existence of cameras-cameras shoot reality. Most people don't feel the existence of camera lens, because from the beginning, the unique charm of the film that the public can feel lies in its content-in Benjamin's words, it is "the non-mechanical meaning produced by mechanical devices." In the era of modern entertainment consumption, the immersion and participation of movies are more prominent (3D and barrage movies). The camera lens is hidden behind the scene, framing the scene and reality according to the director's intention. On the other hand, it is also limited by the picture.

Therefore, in fact, in live-action movies, there is a perspective formed by the director's subjective intention and the objective reality absorbed by the lens. For animated films, we can't feel the so-called camera lens at all, because its content is presented by the animator after understanding the script, split lens, etc., and the plot and characters form a perspective when chasing a certain theme. Therefore, we find the difference between these two perspectives, and their bifurcation point lies in their initial reality and unreality. However, some animated films evoke a realistic emotion through extremely vivid and fine pictures and emotional atmosphere, just to let people experience some realities, such as Makoto Shinkai's painting style and the forest atmosphere of the animated film Master Insect.