Chapter 35 On the Future of Cartoon Painting

The term cartoon has a history of less than ten years in China.However, there is probably no one who loves watching movies who doesn't know Howard Disney's "Mickey Mouse", right? ——The original meaning of "Cartoon" includes all single-page satirical cartoons, current affairs cartoons, life cartoons, continuous cartoons, etc., but the cartoon I want to talk about here refers to the kind of moving pictures that are projected on the screen . The career of cartoon painting can be regarded as bright and bright now.In addition to the dubbing, the pictures are filled with gorgeous colors; the portrait of Mickey Mouse becomes the best decoration in the Christmas shop; many viewers go to the cinema just to see Mickey Mouse.However, let us ask the majority of viewers, what position does cartoons occupy in their minds?Listen to their answers! "Cartoon is the entertainment that takes up a period of time in the cinema after the newsreel is shown and before the feature film is shown. It is specially prepared for children. It has a mission to please children, so it must be funny, whimsical, and we don't want it. It's long, because the drawn characters will make you dizzy. We agree with Mr. Disney to put many world-famous old fairy tales on the screen, because children prefer to watch moving movies rather than reading books. Rigid illustrations." Those Hollywood cartoonists tried their best to cater to the audience's psychology and increase the appeal of their works, so they lined up to search for interesting fairy tales, myths, and funny legends, such as "The Glass Slipper", "Little "Red Hood" and the like are the most precious materials.However, recently, this material has gradually become scarce, and cartoon artists are feeling the desperation of having nowhere to go.We can see that in several cartoons released recently, the producers had to use beautiful music accompaniment to emphasize the action of the picture and make up for the emptiness of the picture. product.Even if there is no shortage of old fairy tales, even if the audience is not tired of the old Mickey Mouse, don't we think that we are satisfied with this amazing twentieth-century art invention—cartoon—replacing illustrations for children's stories? Yet?

never.Cartoon painting has its new future.There is a vast and fertile new field waiting for cartoonists to cultivate.Future cartoons will be anything but mindless entertainment for children.The cartoons of the future will reflect real life, inspire genius, tell great adventure news, and instill interesting learning.For example, "History", it can provide cartoons with countless great and beautiful stories.These poetic stories have been piled up in the dark library for many years and are gradually forgotten and dead; only in the fantasies of primary school students who study history, they sometimes temporarily wake up for a while.Why is the value of cartoons greater than that of classic masterpieces displayed in exquisite exhibitions and museums?It is because it belongs to the broad and enthusiastic masses.It can bring great stories that have died to life to the masses.A good historical cartoon must be understood by both those who have read history and those who have not, and must arouse their interest.In the future, when cartoons reach their artistic peak, the current funny and mythical cartoons will not disappear, but they can only occupy a small place in the entire cartoon world, "chaobeiyi Grid" only.

I am so happy, when I fantasize about the future, when even the Great World and Tianyun Tower are showing the crystallization of beautiful art—scientific cartoons, historical cartoons, literary cartoons... Maybe someone will doubt it.However, don't you see a role model for movies?Aren't movies also considered something to make children laugh in the age of new inventions?Now, however, some films are serious enough to supplement school textbooks, and some are considered artistically worthy enough to be immortalized.The value of cartoons is by no means lower than that of movies.If movies are the little sisters of literature, then cartoons are another lovely little sister bestowed upon literature and art by the goddesses of the 20th century.We should do our best to cultivate her, and add another brilliant page to the history of human art development.