On Chinese National Innovation Spirit In Experimental Animation

The thesis first introduces the concept of Chinese experimental animation and its importance and historical mission and points out that the national pioneering spirit plays an essential role in the development of Chinese animation art. The main characteristic of experimental animation is to explore its formal experiment and its connotation, while the main characteristic of Chinese experimental animation is to embody its national pioneering spirit adequately. Then integrating with the development of Chinese experimental animation and some excellent cartoon films, the thesis makes a systematic research of its national pioneering spirit from aspects of its styles, subjects, images and music etc, and outlines its features and rules, thus deepens the understanding of it of the new age. Persevering in the national pioneering spirit and always focusing on ethic style and features, Chinese experimental animation absorbs rich nutrition from Chinese painting, ethic crafts, traditional opera and Chinese folk music and keeps innovating and creates typical technology like water painting, paper-cutting, shadow play and puppets show and produces a great deal works with distinctive Chinese national style. At last, the author discusses a better and faster way to develop Chinese animation art from two angles as the innovation of creating idea and education of it.