动画电影,英语名字为“卡通”(cartoon),含义是活动的漫画。当前国产动画量大不优的情况很突出。笔者认为,相当一部分原因是动画的创作者们未能深刻理解动画电影艺术的功能性元素。一、动画电影艺术的功能性分类人造产品的功能分为物质功能与精神功能。对电影投资人来说,动画电影是作为商品而存在的,所以,其功能主要是商业功能。商业功能从属于物质功能。因为对受众来说动画电影是作为精神文化产品 Animated films, the English name is “cartoon” (cartoon), the meaning is active comics. The current situation is not good domestic animation is very prominent. The author believes that a considerable part of the reason is that the creators of animation can not deeply understand the functional elements of animation and cinema art. First, the functional classification of animation film art The function of artificial products is divided into material functions and mental functions. For movie investors, animated films exist as commodities, so their main function is commercial. Commercial functions are subordinate to material functions. Because the animated movie for the audience is as a spiritual and cultural product