"Actor" In The Animation——a Research On Character Shaping In Animation Role

Speaking of cartoon characters, we will think of a lot like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry from the US, and Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Ne Zha from China, as well as some popular network characters such as Prison Rabbit, Bugs Bunny and Backkom. Each of these cartoon characters have distinctive personality. Exciting role setting, animated performance and personality creation make these fictional characters vivid. The use of movie audio-visual language makes them more real with infinite charm. They not only give us laughter and entertainment, but also bring us the perception and thinking of life, leaving us with a deep impression.Characters’ personality creation has a unique feature. Each cartoon character has a different personality. The personality creation of characters determines the overall style and significance of a cartoon, and reflects both the features of a nation, region or age, and the development of technology and aesthetic culture of a nation. Cartoon characters carry the soul. It is lifeless, as its vitality is given by the imagination of the creators. The designed roles will be given life after the animators or artists’ efforts and they will have humans’ behavior and emotions. A successful cartoon character should not only give a pleasing visual effect to audience, but more importantly possess a unique personality charm.The cartoon characters are the subject that expands a story. How to shape a cartoon character, equip it with a unique behavior, language, and distinct personality is a critical part in making cartoons. It requires creators to design and ponder over.Personality creation of characters has rich expressive content and a variety of expression methods.This paper primarily aims to explore the character creation with personality design as the core. This paper attempts to analyze how to create a character’s personality from the perspective of modeling features, roles’performances, plots, clothing design and so on. At the same time, we will start from specific examples, profoundly analyze the typical cartoons and representative cartoon characters to improve and enrich animation creation and practice, besides, we hope to provide some reference for those who learn and major in animation.