Shadow Play Art And Animation Combined With The Present Situation And The Development Of Inquiry

As the development of society and modern technology, people’s life style andcustoms are changed and renewed gradually, the folk culture of shadow play stepsdown from the stage of history little by little. Under the coming of contemporary newtechnology and popular culture, shadow plays are in the dangerous state. Less and lesspeople work on shadow play, the craftmanship of shadow play is lost little by little,the audiences of it decreases dramatically, the market of it shrinks gradually and so on.All of this factors threatens the survive and development of shadow play. Due to theboundedness of shadow plays’ self-development, we should reform and innovatedauntless and use the technology of animation computer to produce the patterns ofmanifestation which are fit for the developmental demand in the new time on the wayto inherit the ethnic culture. Meanwhile, with the rapid development of globalanimation product, under the shock of strong culture and culture hegemony broughtby the developed countries of the west, the great mass of the market of Chineseanimation is glutted with foreign works, making the industry of Chinese cartoon in anembarrassed state, giving rise to the very lack of cartoons which have Chinesecharacteristics in Chinese cartoon domain. Therefor, we ought to look for the artisticlanguage belonging to ourselves from our own national culture, fully exploretraditional cultural resource, utilize the local ample culture to produce cartoons whichare profound and rich in spirit, so that our original cartoon industry could develop. Inorder to conform to the development of times, we should use modern craftmanship ofcomputer cartoon to save Chinese shadow play culture which is on the brink of danger.The new patterns of manifestation which is the combination of shadow plays andmodern computer cartoons not only give the culture of shadow plays new life, but alsoutilize the existing folk cultural resource to make our own countries’ cartoons,producing cartoon works which are provided with Chinese characteristics. At thesame time, making cartoon bear the important task of passing on our own culture.Only by improving self-innovation ability and imagination, can Chinese cartoonsmake figure in international market and reproduce the glory of Chinese cartoons.The paper elaborates folk shadow paly’s and cartoons’ definitions and developmental histories. Starting with the current situation and the problems theconfronted during their process of development, the paper analyzes some existingsuccessful cases which combine the shadow plays and cartoons, at the same timesample surveys the audiences of them and evaluate and summaries the currentsituation of the combination of shadow plays and cartoons, explore the developmentand prospect of the study which is the combination of shadow play culture andcartoons. We also support producing national artistic forms which conform to thedevelopment of the new time established in the development of traditional Chineseculture. The combination of shadow plays and modern cartoon, on the one hand, showthat modern popular element blend in national culture, on the other hand, nationalculture is manifested in modern cartoon. By doing this, Chinese folk culture can bepropagated, national emotion can be passed on. Of course, we can also protectChinese non-material cultural heritage and attach great importance to Chinese originalcartoon industry.