The world of animation is very rich in content and technical performance. It includes flat and three-dimensional, puppet and hand-drawn animated films. Since the appearance of the first cartoon, the technologies for its creation have radically changed. What are the characteristic features of modern animation?
Animation yesterday and today
Favorite cartoon characters are not only among young people, but also among adult viewers. Drawn fairytale characters come to life on the screens, luring into the world of exciting adventures. In life, moving pictures are not found. But the wonders of animation allow you to turn a set of static images into a moving image.
The art of animators gives the viewer the opportunity to forget for a while that he is dealing not with reality, but with a fairy tale.
Since ancient times, animators have used a variety of technologies to obtain the desired effects, with the help of which puppet or painted images come to life. Technology is definitely important. But the concept of the artist, the script and the idea are much more important. The final character of an animated film is born when, animators endow him with individuality and character. These principles, which originated at the dawn of drawn cinema, are also characteristic of modern animation.
Today, animation masters see their task as conveying eternal values to the audience, which, unlike technology, do not change over time. Heroes, whose behavior is driven by the desire for justice and goodness, are still watching from TV screens. Evil must be defeated, and love and friendship will definitely triumph.
Features of modern animation
Almost every creation in the world of animation today is the result of the use of computer technology. Very rarely, characters are now sculpted from plasticine or painted on transparent film. The use of computer animation tools allows you to get characters with extremely high definition images. Such heroes are able to move like a person. Plastic movements and special effects bring animation pictures closer to reality.
One of the strongest tendencies in animated film is the pursuit of extreme naturalization. But some cartoonists believe that the desire to give the film the utmost credibility is a dead end, because the viewer perceives not so much the realism of the details of the picture, but the artistic image created on the screen. It is the fabulous, unreal world that attracts the attention of young spectators.
Over the past two decades, three-dimensional animation has emerged and developed. The use of 3D technologies in the production of cartoons became possible only after the release of computer technology to a new level.
Images in which the illusion of a three-dimensional world is created allow you to create a holistic image that seeks to be as realistic as possible.
And yet, today's animation masters very often strive to deliberately stylize three-dimensional graphics like hand-drawn ones. This can be explained by the confrontation of two trends, one of which represents the old school of animation, and the second expresses the demands of tomorrow, for which the audience is not yet ready to perceive.
