"Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" is the first ink animation in the world. How much did it cost?

The first ink cartoon "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom", in which the animal modeling design was taken from Xu Beihong's book. Different from general animation, the outline of ink animation is intermittent, ink strokes are naturally rendered on rice paper in 3D, and each scene is an excellent ink painting. The operation and expression of the characters are beautiful and dynamic, the environment of splashing ink and mountains is bold and magnificent, and the gentle painting style is full of poetry and painting. It shows the artistic aesthetics of "similarity and dissimilarity" in Chinese painting, which is poetic and long-lasting.

Because of the complex processing technology and hierarchical 3D rendering and coloring, a short video consumes a lot of time and manpower, which is unexpected. Ink animation is a successful film of Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1960s. Generally speaking, cartoon characters are all designed as "single-line paintings", while ink and wash cartoons have the excellent style of China's artistic painting, that is, the characteristics of color ink and wash paintings. Rationalization of food web. Why is the mother hen in the movie instead of the mother duck in the original short story? The reason is that mother hen only has theme activities on the shore.

The mother duck will be caught in the water. If mother duck talks to tadpoles, it is easy to confuse the audience's social experience and leave logical defects for this beautiful legend. According to this idea, the big white goose in the original short story was also deleted from the film. Secondly, the convenience of production. The overall goal of this animation is to reproduce Qi Baishi's paintings, so the modeling design is best based on Qi Baishi's paintings. Chicken, shrimp, cancer, turtle and silver carp are all common objects in Qi Baishi's paintings, and only Xu Beihong, the "lucky fish", is not involved.

The task of making lucky fish was finally given to Tielang Dai, who changed it six times before he succeeded. Adapted from the fairy tale of the same name and based on the personal image of fish and shrimp written by artist Xu Beihong, this ink animation improved the single-line drawing method of traditional animation, applied the unique ink interest of Chinese painting to the film, created a unique animation method, and once established the international influence of China animation.