| Animation is a comprehensive art, it is an art form full of imagination. The Chinese Folk Art allows us to discover many art forms, which this design, color design, style design, it enables the integration of animation animated character has appeared in a unique national character, creating a unique national and regional characteristics.From the aspects constitute elements of traditional Chinese folk art, traditional visual elements used in the conventional art, the traditional visual elements on traditional art and so on, to explore Chinese traditional integrated visual elements in the Design of the animated character, made from traditional visual symbols resource seeking animation character design language, the creation of Chinese cultural characteristics of the animated character.Research direction of this paper, through research methods and techniques of animation character design, to explore how to make animated character design more with Chinese characteristics. The Chinese folk art elements in the animation character design language combined with discussions to explore the relationship and mutual influence of both the animated character modeling and folk art element, always investigate from some of the major civil dollar they should design the animated character how to apply and practice. Overall folk elements will be summarized, and explore how they merging animation character design and innovation from the shape and color. Explore Animation modern digital era, the new conception and requirements, and how the elements of Chinese folk art character design better integration and development.Contents of this paper, first elaborated the background of the subject, and domestic and foreign research situation, and established research methods. And from the following animation character design and folk art concepts and techniques about the elements, and then analyzes the animated cartoon character design application in folk art, we explore how the elements of Chinese folk art and animation character design do better combined with innovation. Based on the visual elements of Chinese folk art performance language, form elements and the visual arts to explore the law, which made the animation character design ideas into the theory of traditional Chinese visual elements; explores the visual elements of traditional Chinese visual animation character design form, discussed the practice path animation character design visual elements in Chinese traditional and modern animation character design phase of integration. This paper argues that elements of Chinese folk art has deep and strong creative process, creative forms and creative performance, enabling us on the animated character design innovation provides unlimited possibilities for creativity space. In the creative process of contemporary animation character design, we can actively learn and apply elements of folk art, not only features and animated characters to elements of folk art "form" the perfect combination of design elements, but also the elements of folk art "color " which have fused to give animated characters assigned to elements of the soul, it inherited the five thousand years of our history and cultural literacy. |