Teaching Design For Cartoon Costumes And Display

The strong support to develop innovative animation apparel in the clothing industry is a new approach to spread ideas and thoughts in Chinese culture, and it is also an important and necessary way to raise nation’s prestige and increase the right to speak in the world. As the new type of animation clothing grows, the related industry develops as well. Animation is not only shown on TV, but some related products, toys and the show of cosplay costumes could also be displayed everywhere in our life. The demand for professionals who have both animation and clothing skills leads to education revolution in this area. This project aimed to improve the connection between apparel design and animation design through actual practice. Courses in the major of clothing and animation design in our college should involve actor style design of animation, animation apparel design, performance and other contents in the class. So far, few education institutes investigate the clothing-animation and animation as a major in academic researches.Creation of animation in this project revealed that design and development between conventional apparel and animation apparel have a big difference. In animation creative design, designers are always lack of fashion sense and plan to develop subsequent products. According to research results or theories relevant to apparel design, most students majoring in clothing design are short of professional knowledge-in design and development of animation. Design and development of animation and its subsequent projects were not explored very well due to the lack of effective and organized sources, especially in the area of talents cultivation. Because of big gaps and different education systems between apparel design and animation design training in creative animation design requires an effective cross-disciplinary platform. In this research, design inspiration came from the Chinese Zodiacs, and clothing styles were inspired by clothes in Han Dynasty. The research included animation figure design, roles’clothing design, accessory making and design exhibit.. Designs in the research project showed the beauty of animation clothing, from the original sketch to formal sketch, animation after-effect graph, the made-up processand their exhibition. After the proof of this project, it turns out to be a pilot to make the reforming, adjust the animation major’s direction and got the comprehensive animation clothing talent who differences to the traditional animation talents and make this course a brand of our institute and provide such talents a new look at their career. According to results of this research, relevant education institutes or colleges could reform their teaching strategies, and adjust training programs, and create animation design as a special major, and cultivate professionals in the area of animation design. To summarize, application and display of animation clothing in teaching is a new area to train animation professionals and to combine the clothing design with animation design. Also, it is a new direction for education institutes or colleges to explore. Therefore, investigation of animation clothing design in teaching is very essential and useful.