In Chinese animated films, the colors of the protagonist’s face, skin, and body cannot be easily changed, and on the contrary, their costumes often change freely.their costumes are often changed freely. Behind this change, there is usually a law of ...
In Chinese animated films, the colors of the protagonist’s face, skin, and body cannot be easily changed, and on the contrary, their costumes often change freely.their costumes are often changed freely. Behind this change, there is usually a law of character transformation and development. Taking three Chinese animated films with the same story theme as examples, this paper analyzes the differences in the color changes of the protagonist’s clothing in different times. Focus on Sunwukong, the protagonist in “the monkey king: uproar in heaven”, “the monkey king conquers the demons” and “monkey king: hero is back”, and take the change tendency of his clothing color as the specific analysis object. Research methods through the 12 seasons color theory, the change process of clothing color in the film was discussed in the form of questionnaire, and verified by data analysis. According to the different situations of the character before and after the transformation, a comparative study of the top, bottom and accessory colors in clothing is adopted, and the overall content is obtained. The results show that the clothing colors of the main characters in the three films change mainly with the changes before and after the transformation. In the current Chinese animated films, the color of the costumes of the protagonists tends to be civilian, and the color tends to be aristocratic after transformation. At the same time, the film will set the colors of different clothes according to different situations, which also strengthens the transformation process of the protagonist’s self-growth. Finally, the change of clothing color is closely related to the ideology and spiritual culture of the times, which will have a lasting impact on the development of the protagonist’s clothing color in Chinese animation films.