What are the artistic characteristics of Chinese ink animation

In 1960 two new forms of art films were born in China: origami films and ink animation films.

The ink animation film can be called a great innovation in Chinese animation. It introduced the traditional Chinese ink painting into animation production, and that kind of imaginary and real mood and light and elegant picture made a significant breakthrough in the artistic style of animation. Ink animation is a new breed of animation art created by Chinese artists. It uses Chinese ink painting techniques as the means of expression for character modeling and environmental space modeling, and uses the special processing technology of animation filming to film the ink painting images and compositions one by one, and then forms the animated film of the ink painting images of thick and thin virtual reality activities through continuous screening.

Ink animation is a kind of film that Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio made successfully in the early 60s. The general animation character modeling, are used "single line flat paint", but the ink animation film has the fine tradition of Chinese national painting that is the characteristics of ink painting. Character modeling neither edge line, nor is not painted, but from the film to show the effect of brush painting on rice paper. Ink animation film for the Chinese film art to achieve nationalization, mass, opened up a new road.

On January 31, 1960, Chen Yi, Vice Premier of the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio visited the "China Fine Arts Film Exhibition" held in Beijing, said to the staff of the Fine Arts Film: "It would be better if you could move Qi Baishi's paintings. " In February of the same year, Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio set up an experimental group with Ada in charge of character and background design, Lv Jin in charge of drawing animation, and Duan Xiaoxuan in charge of filming and printing technology, and after nearly three months, the experiment of "Ink Animation Movie" was a success. in July 1961, Fine Arts Film Studio successfully filmed and produced China's first ink animation movie, "The Water Tadpole Looking for its Mother", which declared that China's ink animation movie was a success and that the production technology won the First Scientific and Technological Achievement of the Ministry of Culture. The technology won the first prize for scientific and technological achievements of the Ministry of Culture, and the second prize for scientific and technological inventions of the People's Republic of China.

From 1961 to 1995, Shanghai Motion Picture Studio*** produced four ink cartoons. Each of them has its own characteristics, all of them are innovative, and all of them have moved forward.

The first ink cartoon "Tadpole looking for mother", in which the shape of the small animals from Qi Baishi's pen. Unlike general cartoons, ink animation has no contour lines, and the ink is naturally rendered on rice paper, which is natural, and each scene is an excellent ink painting. The movements and expressions of the characters are beautiful and dynamic, the background of splashing ink landscape is bold and magnificent, and the soft tone is full of poetry. It embodies the aesthetics of Chinese painting, "between likeness and unlikeness", with a far-reaching meaning. Due to the complexity of the production process, which involves layered rendering and coloring, the amount of time and manpower spent on a short film is staggering. The American Film Studio invested heavily in the ink film, and the production team was exceptionally strong. In addition to the old generation of animation masters such as Te Wei and Qian Jiajun, even the famous Chinese painting artists Li Keran and Cheng Shifa also participated in the art direction. It is because of the pursuit of art at all costs, Chinese ink animation in the international community has won praise, no country dares to compete with the patience of the Chinese, the Japanese animation industry even called it a "miracle". But also because of the artistic value and commercial value of the separation, also makes the ink animation is faced with the embarrassment of not being able to continue.