• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.634-643
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the invention animations on the invention attitudes of elementary school students. This study was conducted with a pre-and-post test experimental design. The participants were 73 students from J elementary school in Daejeon. Among them, 36 students were the experiment group and 37 students were the comparison group. Watching invention animations were conducted in a classroom everyday for 24 times. Assessments of Invention Attitudes were administered to all the participants during the pre-test and post-test. To analyze the data, the analysis of covariance(ANCOVA) was adopted. The result of this study was as follows: The experimental group who watched invention animations showed significantly higher improvement in Invention Attitudes and sub-factors of Invention Attitudes(Attentional Attitude, Emotional Attitude, Cognitional Attitude) than the comparison group. In conclusion, watching invention animations had positive effect on the invention attitudes of elementary school students.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.15
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• pp.49-71
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• 2009

This study analyzes Kureougy Balmyungwang (Prankster Invention King), produced by Chung-ki Kim in 1984. [Prankster Invention King (Kureougy Balmyungwang)] has been known as science education film. However, around the time this film was produced in 1980s in South Korea, Science and Technology is basis for development of nation driven by military dictatorship for increasing national welfare and individual capability. In this regards, Kureougy Balmyungwang (Prankster Invention King) is an animated movie not only about education and science, but also a propaganda describing children making every effort to develop their country by scientific research. In this regards, this film is in accordance with Director Kim's other animated films such as General Toli, who also served for the government, advertising its policy. This article compares and analyzes Kureougy Balmyungwang (Prankster Invention King) with various propaganda works after World War I, to clarify the propaganda characteristic and contemplate the contemporary meaning of this work.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.34
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• pp.81-104
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• 2014

Self-reflexivity means consciousness turning back on itself and breaks with art as illusionism and exposes their own factitiousness as textual construct. Self-reflexivity in media deals with the media's condition and process itself and tends to pull viewers out of the reality represented on screen by reminding them that is a media's construction or illusion on the screen. Representation aesthetics has been recognized with an essential theory of the art since Ancient Greek, but it has encountered crisis with the invention of the photography and the cinema in the early 1900s. The supreme transparency of the new media induced a new perspective for the representation aesthetics, which had dominated the art world. The art derived from the representation stood on the crossroad of changing direction. Modernism aesthetics wanted to search for the self-referentiality in order to the replace the past principal. This essay focuses on self-reflexivity in animation and their methodology. First, the change of representation aesthetics in visual arts will be discussed. Second, animations exposing their process of production and components will be analyzed, and lastly, intertextuality in animation will be dealt. I hope to provide the vision of the expanded animation media with this study.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.34
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• pp.367-386
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• 2014

The development of science was crucial to recent advancements in design such as digital contents, UI, GUI, UX design. Not until the DOS evolved into Windows OS were many kinds of digital media design created, namely due to the invention of the computer mouse. A necessary element of mobile phones and Window OS is icons, since icons act as visual symbols, touch buttons and gateways into software content. Icons have undergone many stages of development simultaneously with developments in digital science. We can observe changes in mobile icon design from Skeuomorphism Design to Minimalism to Flat Design. These changes were caused by macro-level trends in design across all other industries. Apple iPhone's Skeuomorphism Design of 2013 evolved into IOS7's Minimalism and Flat Design of 2014. In the mobile world, flat design will again create big changes in design. This research aims to contribute to basic research data of GUI design that are used by creators of mobile apps to understand and anticipate future trends.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.123-136
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• 2005

The personality structure of animation characters is revealed as the characters' roles and behavioral patterns in the drama work as elements of sympathy with the audience. Therefore, character creation is not simply limited to the invention of outward appearance. It must start from understanding the importance of personality structure that leads the plot. Thus the present study examined various personality structures retained in characters, centering on The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro by director Hayao Miyazaki, who has created unique characters. As parts of this research, first, the general characteristics of animation characters were defined. Second, personality types were examined from Carl G. Jung's psychological viewpoint. Analysis was made by connecting the method of classifying personality types based on the multiplicity of personality, namely, 'extroversion and introversion, intuition and sense, thinking and feeling, and judgment and understanding' to the method of classification based on the organic relations among roles in the drama, namely,'victim, persecutor and savior'. Lastly, the research viewpoint derived from the analysis of characters in The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro was applied. The present study defined the general characteristic revealed by the personality types of characters and their organic relations as 'the personality structure of characters' and documented data. In addition, this study is regarded as meaning in that it suggested an example of the effective creation of animation characters that win the sympathy of the audience.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.48
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• pp.359-383
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• 2017

3,000 years ago, since the first poster of humanity appeared in Egypt, the invention of printing technique and the development of civilization have accelerated the poster production technology. In keeping with this, the expression of poster has also been developed as an attempt to express artistic sensibility in a simple arrangement of characters, and now it has become an art form that has become a domain of professional designers. However, the technological development in the expression of poster is keep staying in two-dimensional, and is dependent on printing only that it is irrelevant to the change of ICT environment based on modern multimedia. Especially, among the many kinds of posters, the style of movie posters, which are the only objects for video, are still printed on paper, and many attempts have been made so far, but the movie industry still does not consider ICT integration at all. This study started with the feature that the object of the movie poster dealt with the video and attempted to introduce the augmented reality to apply the dynamic image of the movie to the static poster. In the graduation work of the media design major of a university in Korea, the poster of each works for promoting the visual work of the students was designed and printed in the form of a commercial film poster. Among them, 6 artworks that are considered to be suitable for augmented reality were selected and augmented reality was introduced and exhibited. Content that appears matched to the poster through the mobile device is reproduced on a poster of a scene of the video, but the text informations of the original poster are kept as they are, so that is able to build a moving poster looked like a wanted from the movie "Harry Potter". In order to produce this augmented reality poster, we applied augmented reality to posters of existing commercial films produced in two different formats, and found a way to increase the characteristics of AR contents. Through this, we were able to understand poster design suitable for AR representation, and technical expression for stable operation of augmented reality can be summarized in the matching process of augmented reality contents production.