Another thing is that Qi Baishi personally drew a cartoon for the American film studio in Shanghai. In my opinion, the first one should be true and the second one must be false.
Qi Baishi draws cartoons? How many original images does an animation have in a second? Original animation is generally worthless. You can buy half a village in almost one second, and 15 minutes of animation counts.
These two things, really or not, are all related to a cartoon. China's first ink cartoon was praised by many netizens as China's classic cartoon "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom".
Some netizens may want to know what is magical about this ancient cartoon.
This cartoon is really magical.
1. The creation background of "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" moved Qi Baishi's painting.
In 1950s, Shanghai Animation Film Studio created a large number of excellent animated films, some of which won international awards. For example, China's first color animation "Why the Crow is Black" won a high honor.
But at that time, although our works were in line with the world, they did not reflect the characteristics of national culture. As a result, Te Wei, then director of American Film Factory in Shanghai, put forward a new creative concept: knocking on the door of comedy style and exploring the road of national style. Make more animations with national cultural characteristics. Under the guidance of this concept, a batch of excellent cartoons with Peking Opera elements, such as "Pride General" and "Starlings Don't Eat Watermelon" with paper-cutting elements, were born one after another.
1959 Animator Xu Jingda put forward a new idea of animating traditional ink painting in China. This idea was supported by Marshal Chen Yi at an art film exhibition in 1960. Teacher Chen suggested: Let Qi Baishi's paintings move! The ink animation team of Shanghai Meiying Studio quickly assembled and adapted the fairy tale of the same name, and quoted Qi Baishi's Mountain Spring Frog and his signature work Shrimp. Qi Baishi died in 1957. It is unlikely that he painted for the studio himself, but Little Tadpoles Looking for Mom does have Qi Baishi's artistic elements.
Second, how fast and more provinces, technological breakthroughs In order to create "Little Tadpoles Looking for Mom", almost everyone in the studio participated in the creation, and everyone was assigned different tasks. Some draw shrimps, some draw tadpoles and some draw frogs. ...
This cartoon was made in the national publicity campaign of "Faster and Cheaper". All the creators worked overtime almost every day, working day and night, and invented some new painting methods.
For example, if there are too many tadpoles, a picture is very troublesome. The creator is unique in using seals. More than a dozen tadpoles hold their heads up and then express their emotions with the movements of their tails. I have to say that this idea is very good. After all, tadpoles can't see their eyes and mouths, and they are black. They wag their tails to show that emotions are geniuses.
But these dozens of seals do not seem to conform to the principle of "province". Fortunately, Tewei is open-minded, not "saving", but also "fast" and "good", so it is specially approved to make seals.
Because there is no precedent of ink animation, how to capture the characteristics of ink painting is a big problem besides the original painting. After all, the previous animations were filled with single-line flat colors, while ink painting was a multi-layer pink overlay. Not only is there no relevant technology at home, let alone abroad.
Under the research of the studio creative team day and night, they have conquered the production and shooting technology of ink painting. As for the technology they use, it is still protected by the state.
Appreciate and analyze "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom", and each frame can be cut into ink painting.
I don't know much about the technical level of animation, but as an audience, I have watched "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom" many times since I was a child, and I still have my own feelings about this animation.
First of all, from an intuitive point of view, "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother" is an animation, and each frame can be cut into ink painting, which is almost recognized all over the world. Of course, there are more beautiful rural flutes.
In particular, these two shrimps are very similar to Mr. Qi Baishi's paintings.
There are also several colorful goldfish, which are more vivid and beautiful in contrast with the black tadpoles.