Realism is a view of artistic creation rise in nineteenth Century continued until now，which is characterized with civilian consciousness, focus on small character portrayal, with deep humanitarian concern. Realism has a great influence on the art field of painting, literature, drama, film. In Europe and the United States and Japan animation great nation, there are many excellent animation works are based on realistic creation ideas.

This paper studies mainly divided into two parts: the first part is the realism from related fields, analyzes its characteristics and aesthetics. he second part return to animation, which is to sort out the realistic elements in animation creation application.