Masaaki Yuasa Studies The Art Of Animated Films

Japanese animation master Masaaki Yuasa broke through the barrier with his stylized approach,and was able to stand out from the rest of the Japanese animation scene despite the proliferation of picture-making techniques and the popularity of realistic painting.His animation works are distinctive for their figurative emotional expressions and fantastical storylines,which have both a unique artistic appeal and a high commercial standard.This topic takes Masaaki Yuasa and his works as the research content,which will play an important role in the current situation that the academic community generally focuses on the operation mode of commercial animation,story themes or IP industry chain research,but neglects the study of the animation itself,especially the experimental non-mainstream animation.In his works,Masaaki Yuasa reflects and explores mythology,gender concepts,and other contemporary Japanese social trends and folk customs,and provides new approaches and perspectives to the creation of contemporary animation in traditional contexts and the artistic and commercial exploration of Chinese animation.This study analyzes and summarizes Masaaki Yuasa’s animated films by analyzing and studying their narrative themes,character characteristics,camera language,and art features as follows:The first part summarizes Masaaki Yuasa’s creative history into three stages,and composes,summarizes,and analyzes the creative characteristics,creative thinking,and major works of each stage;the second part analyzes the main features of the director’s animated film narrative themes in the context of Japanese national culture and Masaaki Yuasa’s outlook on life,including the expression of marginal love,the exploration of the topic of death,and the projection of a life view of ocean imagery,thereby clarifying Yuasa’s The third part analyzes the character characteristics of his works,mainly from the construction of the female heroic role and the image of the lost mother;the fourth part analyzes the camera language expression of Masaaki Yuasa’s animated films,studying the animation effect and experimentation from the perspective of picture perspective,shooting angle,lens and viewpoint;the fifth part analyzes the art features of Masaaki Yuasa’s animated films and studies his use of shadowless painting,collage techniques and various expressions of color in his animation creation.