Design of Short Chinese Ancient Cartoon Story for Children's Culture Education

摘要

Spreading Chinese ancient culture to children in online cartoon animation has important realistic meaning. It is becoming common sense that cartoon animation and national culture are tied together .In this paper, the design method of 2D and 3D short cartoon animation is introduced. The 2D cartoon animation is "frog's sound in a lotus pool", its primitive drama is from Judge Dee's Mystery, the process of settling a lawsuit is expressed by cartoon animation, which includes knowledge of a lot of disciplines, such as ancient crime, ancient law, ancient building, social psychology, animation technology, and multimedia etc. The art design of story and character in the short cartoon film for Judge Dee's Mystery are also presented. The 3D cartoon animation is "Nie Xiao Qian", its primitive drama is from Chinese ancient Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio, the cartoon scene and the characters are designed in threedimensional software. The demonstration of the cartoon animation has three-dimensional perspective effect, and it can give good pictures of the story plot, all the cartoon animations are realized by Flash program.