When I was doing animation Amway with my honest brother Liang, Brother Liang was as stupid as a fool, and my systematic understanding of animation was completely subverted in one sentence. You should all listen to this: "Isn't animation a picture of beautiful men and women chatting together?"
I have been trying to give an absolutely accurate definition of animation, or find the common ground of all animation souls. I didn't expect Liang Xiong, a complete outsider, to casually achieve my goal. After that, no matter how hard I racked my brains, I couldn't go beyond this definition. If you are eager to try, welcome to challenge Brother Liang.
1: Animation is also an art.
All that can be appreciated is art and all that can be studied is science. -Marcel Wozsaud
According to this definition, animation is of course an art form with the same status as film, music and literature. Animation is realistic and emotional. It has the potential to achieve the goals that other art forms try to achieve, and to discuss topics such as life, love and hate, scientific and political civilization, war and peace. I don't want to elaborate on this.
What kind of art is animation? She has pictures and sounds, and is close to movies and TV documentaries in form, and her rhythm, mirror design and artistic requirements are similar to those of movies. Therefore, Araki suggested that everyone who wants to be a cartoonist should first learn the design of the film split mirror and fully understand that the film is considering comics.
What kind of science is animation? She tried to express her feelings by telling stories; She is trying to capture your emotions and try to guide your psychology. When you read comics, have you ever thought that every grid, every dividing line, every dialog box and every onomatopoeia in comics are meaningful, which guide your vision, control the pace and speed of your reading, and convey a deeper meaning in time? The same is true for animation processing. In short, animation is a highly designed thing with a distinct structure.
2. The language of animation.
Each art form has its own special language. The language here includes narrative methods, story processing methods, patterns, routines and so on. It is often criticized that animation is divorced from reality and is a routine. This is an animation language that he doesn't understand. Movies have the language of movies, novels have the language of novels, and novels with different themes also have their own unique languages, which are often different from real experiences. People who seek truth in novels must be crazy. The story of Casablanca really needs to be summed up. It's actually quite bloody, but the film is told in its own way, which is a generation of classics.
What is the unique language of animation? Draw beautiful boys and girls chatting together.
The biggest difference between animation and other arts is that she is drawn. This allows the creator to further develop his imagination, so that this art can get rid of the shackles of real experience and reach a realm of ethereal freedom.
Give a few examples. If there is no Eiichiro Oda or Hirohiko Araki, can you?