Design for Animation, Narrative Structures & Film Language

In this paper, although I have used the basic structure and writing method of critical report, I think I have collected too few arguments and made insufficient analysis on both sides. I will improve this aspect in the next critical thinking. However, But this paper research is of great help to my professional study. If I have…

After researching, I came to the conclusion: the use of motion capture in a film can enhance the interaction between the audience, the characters and the fictional world, but there are still certain limitations. For example, there are great limitations in the application field of motion capture. If motion capture is used in animated cartoon films,…

In my literature collection and study, I studied in Google scholar, proquest, crossref, sciencedirect, sci-hub, sagejournals, acm digital library, procon, modestum and other websites have been checked. It mainly searched the research of motion capture technology and the related articles of animation performance, and the reference list at the end of the article also helped me a…

At the beginning of the article, I introduced the development background and current status of motion capture technology, and led to the topic of discussion and different arguments. Next, I explained in detail the view that motion capture technology is conducive to the development of the animation industry. In the third paragraph, I analyzed the…

When I started producing 3d animation, Avatar 2 was being released. While I was excited and amazed by the maturity of motion capture technology, I also had a question: Can this technology be applied to the production of animated films? Can live-action replace animated character acting? I did not get the answer until this paper, I started…

Hayes D. Acting and performance for animation[M]. CRC Press, 2013. Beiman N. Animated Performance: Bringing imaginary animal, human and fantasy characters to life[M]. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Hodgins, J., Jörg, S., O’Sullivan, C., Park, S.I. and Mahler, M., 2010. The saliency of anomalies in animated human characters. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), 7(4), pp.1-14. Chen S C,…

The First Version： TOPIC: The different of character performance between live-action movie and animation ABSTRACT： The character performance in live-action and animation refers to a character’s acting style and method in a film. As the most mainstream film art on the big screen, live-action films and animations are inextricably linked with each other. In recent…

Most of the early animated documentary studies were based on the shooting theory and mode of documentary, and they hoped to take interaction and reflection as the characteristics of animated documentary, as one of the types of documentary. Seeing an irreplaceable gap between animated documentary and performative documentary, wells redefined the animated documentary model, the…

In the history of film development, the definition of the director’s identity and work content have been debated. Compared with the complex functions and the proportion of division of labor that need to be considered in traditional films, the emergence of animation seems to provide the possibility of almost completely independent operation of films. Arguably,…

An Optical Poem – produced by Oskar Fischinger 1938 – YouTube “An Optical Poem” is a famous experimental animated short film produced by Oskar Fischinger in 1938. Oskar Fisinger is a German-born artist and animator, credited as one of the pioneers of visual music and abstract animation. The music of this animation was composed by…