Why are cartoons called cartoons?

Name animation (China called it an art film in the early days, but now it is called animation internationally, and animation in English. It is a comprehensive art category and the product of human seeking spiritual liberation in industrial society. It is an artistic expression that combines painting, comics, movies, digital media, photography, music, literature and many other artistic categories. In the early days, only children watched movies. But with the development of the times and people's pursuit of spiritual life, it has been accepted and loved by people of different ages. It is a kind of fantasy art, which is easier to express and express people's feelings intuitively, can turn what is impossible to see in reality into reality, and expand people's imagination and creativity. It draws the expressions, movements and changes of people and things into many frames, and then shoots them continuously with a camera. Animation:animation, cartoon, animare cartoon, cameracature's English animation comes from the Latin root animation, which means soul, and the verb animation means to give life, which means to make something alive. Therefore, animation can be interpreted as making inanimate things move like life through the arrangement of the creator. Broadly speaking, it is to turn some inactive things into moving images through the production and projection of movies. This is animation. The Chinese name of "Animation" should be said to have originated from Japan. Before and after World War II, Japan called a comic work depicted by a line "animation". Animation is a picture that continuously changes the vision by playing a series of pictures. Its basic principle, like film and television, is visual principle. Medicine has proved that human beings have the characteristic of "visual persistence", that is, after seeing a painting or an object, people's eyes will not disappear within 1/24 seconds. Using this principle, playing before the next painting disappears will give people a smooth visual change effect. Therefore, movies are shot and played at the speed of 24 frames per second, and TVs are shot and played at the speed of 25 frames per second (PAL system) (CCTV animation is PAL system) or 30 frames per second (NSTC system). If you shoot and play at less than 24 frames per second, there will be a pause. The way to define animation is not the material used or the way of creation, but whether the work conforms to the essence of animation. Today, animation media has included various forms, but no matter what form, they all have some similarities: their images are recorded one by one in the form of movies, videos or digital information; In addition, the "action" of the image is an illusion created, rather than existing originally. There are no certain rules for the classification of animation. From the production technology and means, animation can be divided into traditional animation based on manual drawing and computer animation based on computer. According to the form of action, animation can be roughly divided into "perfect animation" (animated TV) which is close to natural action and "limited animation" (slide animation) which adopts simplified exaggeration. From the visual effect of space, it can be divided into plane animation (the return of tigers) and three-dimensional animation (final fantasy). From the perspective of playback effect, it can also be divided into sequential animation (continuous action) and interactive animation (repetitive action). Judging from the number of pictures displayed per second, there are full animation (24 pictures per second) (Disney animation) and semi-animation (less than 24 pictures) (third-rate animation). In order to save money, domestic animation companies often use semi-animation to shoot TV dramas. Source Editor 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 Six Laws and the characters in "Fairy in Painting" in Liaozhai, which largely rely on imagination to make up for the dynamic. In distant Europe, efforts to move portraits really developed. Animation can't be realized without first understanding a basic principle of human eyes. The persistence of vision was first discovered by the Frenchman Paul Rogate, who invented the photographic disc in 1828. It is a disk, which is passed between two sides with a rope or a wooden pole. One side of the plate is painted with a bird and the other side is painted with an empty cage. When the disc rotates, the bird appears in the cage. This proves that when the eye sees a series of images, it only keeps one image at a time. A brief history of animation editing this animation-the history of animation development, first understand the history of animation development and then understand the basic knowledge of animation: as early as 183 1 year, the Frenchman JosephAntoinePlateau put the drawn pictures on a machine's CD in sequence, and the CD can be rotated by the machine. This machine also has an observation window to observe the effect of moving pictures. Driven by the machine, the disc rotates at a low speed. The pictures on the CD also rotate with the CD. From the observation window, the picture seems to be moving, forming a moving picture, which is the embryonic form of the original animation. 1906, JSteward of the United States made a film close to the concept of modern animation, called Houmouous Phase of a Funny Face. After repeated pondering and deliberation, he constantly revised the draft and finally completed this short film close to animation. 1908, Frenchman Emile Cohl made an animated film from negative for the first time. The so-called negative is a film whose image is just the opposite of the actual color, just like the ordinary film negative today. Making animation with negative film solved the problem of film carrier conceptually and laid the foundation for the development of animation in the future. 1909, American WinsorMccay expressed an animated story with 10,000 pictures, which is recognized as the first decent animated short film in the world so far. Since then, the level of creation and production of cartoons has become increasingly mature, and people have begun to consciously make cartoons that express various contents. 19 15 years, American EerlHurd created a brand-new animation production process. He first drew cartoons on plastic film, and then made the paintings on plastic film into animated films. This animation technology has been used for many years. From 1928, the famous Walt Disney gradually pushed the animated film to the peak. (Refer to Disney Biography) While perfecting the animation system and production technology, he linked the production of cartoons with commercial value and was known as the father of commercial animation. Until now, the Disney company he founded is still creating color cartoons for people all over the world. Disney-the greatest animation company in the 20th century.