If you want to say that you can make frequent hot searches recently, but you won't worry about the entertainment news that will be scolded as suspicious of life, you may only have Liu Yifei and the high-profile Disney animated movie Mulan. It is undeniable that Disney is indeed a leader in animated remake of live action movies. From Cinderella to Beauty and the Beast, which one is hot before it is released? In recent years, whether we are familiar with DC, Marvel, or Japanese anime, basically as long as there is a certain fan group of animation, we will be able to see the adapted live TV series and movies. It is no exaggeration to say that in recent years, it has become an inexorable trend and development direction of animation to diffuse the change of live animation film and television. Have you ever thought about when animation humanization became so popular?

Why are animated movies popular? An Analysis of the Movies and TV Works of Man

What is the significance of the trend of animated cartoon and cartoon live action movie at the moment when the audience of animation majors studying abroad is getting wider and wider? These questions seem to be wide and empty, but in fact, we can see the current trend of the development of the animation film and television industry, and how students who are interested in related majors choose their majors. So today, we will take the movie Mulan as a starting point, and take stock of those successful or failed animated films and television works of diffuse human beings, and analyze the reasons, conditions and results behind these phenomena.

What kind of animation is suitable for live action animation movies?

Speaking of excellent animation adaptation of live action film and television works, Disney's Princess series must be a textbook like model. Before Mulan, there were three successful examples of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Charm. The "Little Mermaid" is also a series of shooting messages, and even the casting can set off an upsurge of discussion on the Internet.

Why did the diffuse film of Disney Princess series animation achieve such great success? It is true that the role selection and film technology contributed to this, but the most direct reason in the early publicity must be related to the wide audience of the story prototype of Disney Princess series animation.

As we all know, Disney Princess series animation stories are not original Disney stories, but are adapted from folk legends and fairy tales that we are familiar with and widely spread.

There is no need to say more about the two Disney princess families, Green's Fairy Tales and Andersen's Fairy Tales. Mulan is also a heroic girl we have known since childhood, such as Moana and Aladdin's Lamp. The inspiration also comes from folk stories widely spread in various countries.

And the magic weapon of Disney princesses is also the most critical prerequisite for the animation live action film and television - a certain base of audience. I believe that students who pay attention to the film and television industry or are interested in film have found that the trend of animation from the minority to the public has become more and more obvious in the past decade.

As the audience of animation increases, the number of fans will also increase, so the popularity trend of animation is complementary to the development of live action animation movies in two different directions. The more popular the animation, the wider the audience, the more likely it will be invested to develop into a live action movie from the perspective of commercialization.

On the contrary, the development of animation into live action film and television works will also be more conducive to the popularization of animation. Manwei and DC have the most say in this regard.

At present, almost all young people who like to watch movies have seen the series of movies of Marvel and DC, and they can also talk about the American team, Iron Man, Black Widow, Batman, Clown and Halle Quinn. However, statistics show that among these movie fans, no more than 40% have actually seen the original works of Marvel and DC cartoons.

Suicide Squad movie

Without the support of such a large audience as Disney Princess, how did Marvel and DC Marvel achieve success? This is another key factor in the animation live action film and television, a huge world view and credible character setting. This is also the key to the realization of live animation.

How is the animation live action movie realized?

As mentioned above, the huge worldview and vivid character setting are not only the conditions suitable for live action animation, but also the technical keys of live action animation.

Many film and television producers are keen to engage in the production of live action film and television works adapted from animation, which is also because animation and comics have mature background stories, world views and character settings from the perspective of adaptation.

In addition, many animations have excellent script compilation and character setting because of their unconstrained and unorthodox nature. We are familiar with Manwei and DC's works, and the animations of Hayao Miyazaki and Min Kon are as wonderful as live action movies in terms of their storytelling, character setting, even scene setting, and camera language.

In fact, many of the non diffuse film and television works we are familiar with actually have the shadow of drawing on the characters, scene design, worldview setting and even camera language of animation.

For example, Inception, Black Swan, Requiem of Dream, etc. Today, we cite these examples not to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of animation and live action film, but to show the students the feasibility of live action film animation.

The above picture is Kon Min's animated work "Bu Wu Ma", and the following picture is the film "Requiem of Dream"

On the basis of character setting, background story, scene setting, and even split shot drawing, it has basically saved more than half of the time for the preparatory work of film shooting. So it is not so much that animation needs the promotion of live action film and television works. In fact, live action film and television works, in turn, need animation as a basis to save manpower, material resources and time costs in order to achieve mutual success.

From this, we can also see that the live action film and television animation is not as difficult as we imagined, and even easier to achieve than the original script film.

Why are animated live action movies becoming more popular in recent years?

In fact, according to the general narrative logic, "why" should be put first. But I don't know whether the students have found that the characteristics of all the animated live action movies we talked about today are complementary to each other. Seeing this, students must have their own answers to why animation live action film and television has become more popular in recent years.

We can say that it is because the audience of animation is getting wider and wider, it is also because of the development of the film and television industry, it can also be because of the "industrial revolution" breakthrough in film and television production level and special effects, and even the emergence of talents in the animation and comic industry, the emergence of high-quality works, it can also be the reason for the popularity of animated reality movies...

However, in the final analysis, the boundary between animation and live film and television is becoming more and more blurred. The focus of the audience has shifted from the media of film and television works to the quality of film and television works.

Mulan trailer

Most of the time, instead of thinking about why so many cartoon works choose live action, we should think backward. What's the reason for those excellent cartoon works not to transform into live action? Faced with such a cross field win-win opportunity, will anyone really refuse?

This development is undoubtedly good news for students who are interested in film and television industry. This means that in the future, no matter whether the students' works are animation or live shooting, the audience will focus more and more on the works they really want to express, rather than on the media.

Speaking of this, the students should have changed their minds Studied abroad in film and television production The formation and development of works have a basic concept. In the near future, not only will the boundary between the two dimensions become blurred, but all the so-called "dimensional walls" that seem impossible to break will face the "threat" of breaking the boundary.

The trend of live action animation film we are discussing today is just a small diversion of cross field interaction under the big category of digital media, even art. In addition to animation and film, literature and film, music and film, interaction and film, etc... Numerous artistic diversions have begun to interact and integrate in modern society, learning from each other and achieving mutual success.

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