8On August 1, the opening ceremony of the National Arts Fund's 2024 talent training funding project "Kunqu Art Digital Design and Creation Talent Training" sponsored by Shanghai University and undertaken by Shanghai Film Academy was held at the Yanchang Campus of Shanghai University in Jing'an District.
The total duration of this project is 90 days, with 31 days of intensive training. It aims to use technology to empower the creation and inheritance of Kun Opera art. It combines traditional Kun Opera art with current digital technologies such as motion capture and three-dimensional scanning in the film and television industry to construct Kun Opera. The digital image asset library of art cultivates a group of "amphibious" in-demand, high-quality talents of "Kunqu Opera + Digital Technology".
Li Hongliang performs body display and transformation in the pilot film of the Kun Opera digitalization project. The
project brings together nationally renowned Kun Opera performing artists and creative artists, senior experts in Kun Opera art theory research from major universities, senior engineers and senior practitioners in digital technology and film and television special effects industries. The program training content ranges from the history and theory of Kun Opera, to Kun Opera painting, costumes, makeup, music, opera culture, and new media dissemination of opera, to motion capture technology, three-dimensional scanning, AI image generation technology, and digital image synthesis, Digital recording, film and television color grading, etc. are all covered. After strict selection and public announcement, a total of 31 key students in related majors from across the country were selected.
Xia Ping, deputy director of the Shanghai Project Management Office of the National Arts Fund, said: "The integration of traditional opera and modern technology has become the need of the times, and the development of this project is also in compliance with this trend." The project combines theory and practice With the teaching concept of combining technology and art, we carry out training for digital creation talents of Kun Opera art, striving to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Kun Opera art.
According to the organizer, the "Kun Opera Art Digital Design and Creation Talent Training" project is not only an exploration of the combination of traditional Kun Opera art and modern digital technology, but also a new starting point for Kun Opera's innovative development. In the future, Kun Opera experts, practitioners and students will work together to continuously promote the digital transformation, innovation and inheritance of Kun Opera art.
This project is funded by the Lottery Public Welfare Fund - China Welfare Lottery and China Sports Lottery, and the National Arts Fund. Relevant persons in charge of the Shanghai Project Management Office of the National Arts Fund, supervision experts from the National Arts Fund, artists in the industry, relevant persons in charge and teachers from Shanghai University and Shanghai University Film School, key students and reporters from many media attended the opening ceremony.
Source: Shanghai Jing’an
