China’s domestic animation industry is deeply rooted in its rich traditional cultural heritage.While continuously exploring and showcasing the unique charm of such cultural heritage through storytelling,imagery estab...China’s domestic animation industry is deeply rooted in its rich traditional cultural heritage.While continuously exploring and showcasing the unique charm of such cultural heritage through storytelling,imagery establishment,and spirit creation,Chinese animation also seamlessly integrates modern aesthetic characteristics and cultural values into its development within the context of the new era.By adopting a contemporary perspective,it innovatively expresses the essence of traditional culture while striving to shape and present a reliable,admirable and respectable image of China.Chinese animation aims to create credible contemporary animation images by drawing inspiration from traditional Chinese cultural archetypes.It also seeks to revitalize admirable traditional cultural imagery using vibrant and prevailing ACGN visuals,while shaping credible characters with richer cultural connotations and crafting stories with more enchanting plots to convey the spiritual essence of the Chinese nation.By establishing reliable,admirable and respectable animation images,the Chinese animation industry strives to enhance its capability to“tell China’s stories well and make the voice of China heard,”to better promote the image of China in the new era from a global perspective.展开更多
Cartoons serve as significant sources of entertainment for children and adolescents.However,numerous animated videos contain unsuitable content,such as violence,eroticism,abuse,and vehicular accidents.Current content ...Cartoons serve as significant sources of entertainment for children and adolescents.However,numerous animated videos contain unsuitable content,such as violence,eroticism,abuse,and vehicular accidents.Current content detection methods rely on manual inspection,which is resource-intensive,time-consuming,and not always reliable.Therefore,more efficient detection methods are necessary to safeguard young viewers.This paper addresses this significant problem by proposing a novel deep learning-based system,AnimeNet,designed to detect varying degrees of violent and erotic content in videos.AnimeNet utilizes a novel Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)model to extract image features effectively,classifying violent and erotic scenes in videos and images.The novelty of the work lies in the introduction of a novel channel-spatial attention module,enhancing the feature extraction performance of the CNN model,an advancement over previous efforts in the literature.To validate the approach,I compared AnimeNet with state-of-the-art classification methods,including ResNet,RegNet,ConvNext,ViT,and MobileNet.These were used to identify violent and erotic scenes within specific video frames.The results showed that AnimeNet outperformed these models,proving it to be well-suited for real-time applications in videos or images.This work presents a significant leap forward in automatic content detection in animation,offering a high-accuracy solution that is less resource-intensive and more reliable than current methods.The proposed approach enables it possible to better protect young audiences from exposure to unsuitable content,underlining its importance and potential for broad social impact.展开更多
Taking Ne Zha as an example,this paper analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese animated films at the presentstage.Under the condition of both opportunities and challenges,some measures to develop Chinese anim...Taking Ne Zha as an example,this paper analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese animated films at the presentstage.Under the condition of both opportunities and challenges,some measures to develop Chinese animated films are proposed.展开更多
As a visual art, film has already been one of the main forms to exhibit culture in modem society. This paper tries to explore American animated films, one of the most successful and tipical styles of American films, f...As a visual art, film has already been one of the main forms to exhibit culture in modem society. This paper tries to explore American animated films, one of the most successful and tipical styles of American films, from the view of post-colonialism so as to receal American animated films make every effort to set up the image of the Other and to propagate American culture and value. It is American cultural hegemony.展开更多
Steve Cutts is a young English illustrator/producer who,despite being 25 or 26 years old,has already worked for large multinationals such as Sony,Toyota or Coca-Cola.His genius is evident not only because of his natur...Steve Cutts is a young English illustrator/producer who,despite being 25 or 26 years old,has already worked for large multinationals such as Sony,Toyota or Coca-Cola.His genius is evident not only because of his natural talent for drawing,but also because he uses simple programs like Adobe Flash or After Effects to create his animations,and the result surprises us.And it surprises us with the satirical,daring,carefree and ironic tone with which it presents the human universe,with its ambitions,desires,sadness,miseries.This paper examines two of his animated films,and explores a philosophical vision about the hypermodern society and the myth of happiness.展开更多
Color has an intuitive expression of the material world,and is often used by creators of animated films in the narrative process of the film to express a creator’s subjective feelings.Color narration is a special men...Color has an intuitive expression of the material world,and is often used by creators of animated films in the narrative process of the film to express a creator’s subjective feelings.Color narration is a special mental imagination activity.It mainly refers to human beings perceiving colors in the external environment,and judging by their own rich life experience,and finally achieving a comprehensive cognition of external things.The animated film Ne Zha has attracted the attention of the audience since its release.That is because the film uses color narration ingeniously to innovate traditional stories and familiar characters,it displays the story through shocking visual expression,so that the audience can feel the influence of traditional culture while understanding the story,reflecting the unique artistic charm of color narration.This paper analyzes three aspects of color narration in showing the binary oppositions of goodness and evil,portraying vivid characters,promoting the development of narration,and highlighting the tension of the film,and fully expounds the importance of color narration in animated films.展开更多
In a global age, the American animated film industry that features a solid industrial foundation with the mature operational mechanism and takes a large share of global market. The thesis is going to illustrate the op...In a global age, the American animated film industry that features a solid industrial foundation with the mature operational mechanism and takes a large share of global market. The thesis is going to illustrate the operational system and patterns of American animated film industry on the basis of the status quo of American cartoon movie market, to be a reference to the further development of Chinese cartoon movie industry.展开更多
基金funded by “Multi-dimensional Reconstruction and Symbol Hybridity:Research on Innovative Expression of Traditional Culture in Domestic Animated Films”(WHCY2023B28)a project funded by the Cultural Industry Development Research Center of Sichuan Provincial Key Research Base of Philosophy and Social Sciences+1 种基金funded by “An Intertextual Analysis of Li Bing’s Story from a Cross-media Perspective”(RX2300002875)a research project funded by the Li Bing Research Center at the Sichuan Provincial Key Research Base of Philosophy and Social Sciences
文摘China’s domestic animation industry is deeply rooted in its rich traditional cultural heritage.While continuously exploring and showcasing the unique charm of such cultural heritage through storytelling,imagery establishment,and spirit creation,Chinese animation also seamlessly integrates modern aesthetic characteristics and cultural values into its development within the context of the new era.By adopting a contemporary perspective,it innovatively expresses the essence of traditional culture while striving to shape and present a reliable,admirable and respectable image of China.Chinese animation aims to create credible contemporary animation images by drawing inspiration from traditional Chinese cultural archetypes.It also seeks to revitalize admirable traditional cultural imagery using vibrant and prevailing ACGN visuals,while shaping credible characters with richer cultural connotations and crafting stories with more enchanting plots to convey the spiritual essence of the Chinese nation.By establishing reliable,admirable and respectable animation images,the Chinese animation industry strives to enhance its capability to“tell China’s stories well and make the voice of China heard,”to better promote the image of China in the new era from a global perspective.
文摘Cartoons serve as significant sources of entertainment for children and adolescents.However,numerous animated videos contain unsuitable content,such as violence,eroticism,abuse,and vehicular accidents.Current content detection methods rely on manual inspection,which is resource-intensive,time-consuming,and not always reliable.Therefore,more efficient detection methods are necessary to safeguard young viewers.This paper addresses this significant problem by proposing a novel deep learning-based system,AnimeNet,designed to detect varying degrees of violent and erotic content in videos.AnimeNet utilizes a novel Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)model to extract image features effectively,classifying violent and erotic scenes in videos and images.The novelty of the work lies in the introduction of a novel channel-spatial attention module,enhancing the feature extraction performance of the CNN model,an advancement over previous efforts in the literature.To validate the approach,I compared AnimeNet with state-of-the-art classification methods,including ResNet,RegNet,ConvNext,ViT,and MobileNet.These were used to identify violent and erotic scenes within specific video frames.The results showed that AnimeNet outperformed these models,proving it to be well-suited for real-time applications in videos or images.This work presents a significant leap forward in automatic content detection in animation,offering a high-accuracy solution that is less resource-intensive and more reliable than current methods.The proposed approach enables it possible to better protect young audiences from exposure to unsuitable content,underlining its importance and potential for broad social impact.
文摘Taking Ne Zha as an example,this paper analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese animated films at the presentstage.Under the condition of both opportunities and challenges,some measures to develop Chinese animated films are proposed.
文摘As a visual art, film has already been one of the main forms to exhibit culture in modem society. This paper tries to explore American animated films, one of the most successful and tipical styles of American films, from the view of post-colonialism so as to receal American animated films make every effort to set up the image of the Other and to propagate American culture and value. It is American cultural hegemony.
文摘Steve Cutts is a young English illustrator/producer who,despite being 25 or 26 years old,has already worked for large multinationals such as Sony,Toyota or Coca-Cola.His genius is evident not only because of his natural talent for drawing,but also because he uses simple programs like Adobe Flash or After Effects to create his animations,and the result surprises us.And it surprises us with the satirical,daring,carefree and ironic tone with which it presents the human universe,with its ambitions,desires,sadness,miseries.This paper examines two of his animated films,and explores a philosophical vision about the hypermodern society and the myth of happiness.
文摘Color has an intuitive expression of the material world,and is often used by creators of animated films in the narrative process of the film to express a creator’s subjective feelings.Color narration is a special mental imagination activity.It mainly refers to human beings perceiving colors in the external environment,and judging by their own rich life experience,and finally achieving a comprehensive cognition of external things.The animated film Ne Zha has attracted the attention of the audience since its release.That is because the film uses color narration ingeniously to innovate traditional stories and familiar characters,it displays the story through shocking visual expression,so that the audience can feel the influence of traditional culture while understanding the story,reflecting the unique artistic charm of color narration.This paper analyzes three aspects of color narration in showing the binary oppositions of goodness and evil,portraying vivid characters,promoting the development of narration,and highlighting the tension of the film,and fully expounds the importance of color narration in animated films.
文摘In a global age, the American animated film industry that features a solid industrial foundation with the mature operational mechanism and takes a large share of global market. The thesis is going to illustrate the operational system and patterns of American animated film industry on the basis of the status quo of American cartoon movie market, to be a reference to the further development of Chinese cartoon movie industry.
