This 3D computer animation creation 《The Whistle Stops》, expresses my personal emotions of life and my thoughts about war and human nature. This piece of work also expresses childhood memories of my own and gratitude to my parents. The plot of this story describes a father, a metaphor of my own, leaving his hometown for war. With regards to the longing for his hometown and family, and how war deprives the lives of mankind, I seek to present mainland culture elements through the story background and visual frames, to find the symbols of self life memories and the connection of emotion.
Through assembling and arrangement of information, the section of the probe into documents uses history as the main structure, discussing mutual relationship and development between art and politics. It also discusses the development of the forms of animation effected by war and animation words related to this subject, giving detailed explanations regards to the cultural background of the author, the content of the story, the direction of creation and history for each and every one of them, hoping that the matter of these works and the analysis of text will help me on my thoughts of culture and individual emotions on this subject. What’s more, enriching self internal virtues, to assist the creation of the 3D computer animation 《The Whistle Stops》.
Therefore, the creation concept and methods are mainly describing the creation content of 《The Whistle Stops》; with the main character going back to his hometown after the war, he recalls his father taking him on a bicycle when he was young , and the sound of him whistling the native Taiwan folk song, 《The Whistle Stops》, to recollect the feelings between his father and himself. It also uses the “robot” to express the anger that the main character has to war, yet when the robot transforms into the image of his father, he lets go of his state of revenge.
At the end of the paper, I propose my personal creation experiences and methods to provide a future reference for those who aim at the creation of 3D computer animation.