What are the stylistic features of traditional Chinese paper-cut cartoons?

Chinese traditional paper-cut animation style features: rich country characteristics, simple and exaggerated character modeling, imaginative, complex ornamentation, very decorative, smooth lines, ten thousand cuts, pen connected, bright and rich colors, saturated hues, and often choose to use the theme of joy and auspicious colors.

China's traditional paper-cutting animation is a traditional Chinese folk skills used in animation production. This is a very Chinese characteristics of the animation art form, but also in the reference to the shadow play and paper-cutting art as the premise of an art form to show the charm of animation.

Paper-cutting art is a treasure of Chinese traditional culture, with a long history and a deep mass base. Paper-cut animation is the Chinese folk art of paper-cutting applied to the design and production of animation.

Paper-cutting animation is the traditional Chinese paper-cutting art used in animation production of an art means with Chinese characteristics, it is the combination of folk paper-cutting art and animation, is the most Chinese characteristics and national style animation.

It takes the art of plane mounting as the main means of expression of character modeling, and manipulates the movement of characters with shadow mounting joints, and the environment space consists of drawings and front and back scenes pasted on the glass, so that the harm is placed flat on the glass plate and shot frame by frame.

The style of paper-cut animation, although more Chinese characteristics, but also has limitations. The movements of the characters in paper-cut animation have great limitations. We can only watch it from a certain angle, and the movement is not very smooth, and eye simply animation for the character's expression is not very perfect, the production of paper-cut animation is to spend a lot of manpower and material resources.

Paper-cut animation film key points:

The production of paper-cut animation modeling as well as the background before the completion of the design should be modeling scale drawings, as well as the provisions of each shot in the scene and props of the level, specifications, to make a precise background design.

The modeling design of the paper-cut film is based on the side portrait, and at the same time, the standard modeling of frontal and half-side of the character is made according to the need. Several sets of different sizes may be produced to suit different scenes according to the needs of the plot.

The background of the paper-cut film is made of drawing paper through painting, cutting, carving and scribing, etc. Fine fiber paper can also be used to make the paper dolls and the background, pulling out the fluffy edges to mimic the effect of ink painting. After completing the background of the carving work, in the paste it on the glass plate can be used.