애니메이션에 나타난 신화에 관한 고찰: 일본·인도 간 비교를 중심으로

Abstract

The animation uses mythological motifs. The animation has been using animated images and familiar story in order to provide a sense of visual to people. The United States and Japan have topped the list on global animation market. The animation has been using unique mythology and folklore as a material. Some animation, such as ‘Spirited Away(2002)’ is based on Japanese mythology and folklore in setting the scene or its characters. ‘Hanuman (2005)’ is based on the story of the hanuman that appears in Indian mythology. There are over 80,000 Buddhist Temples in Japan. The 110 million Indians believe many Hindu gods that surpassed the number of Indian population. This study examines the traditional content of animation in Japan and India, compares the animation in term of myth in the traditional culture of Japan and India. At first, the Japanese and Indian animation screened based on the myth was arranged and classified, characters, costumes, architecture, music, dance, were analyzed for the comparison. Second, we compared and analyzed the traditional culture in animation based on between "TenchiMuyo", "Spirited Away", "Phoenixreimei-hen", and "Legend of the Millennium Dragon" in Japan and "Return of Hanuman", "Bal Ganesh 1", "Little Krishna", and "Ramayana: the Epic" in india. This study will help to understand the Japan and Indian traditional culture that is projected into a new media as animation throughout the Japanese and Indian culture and attitudes to life. In addition, the result of this study help Korean animation companies to understand Japan and Indian’s companies and provide the basic data for an exchange between Korea and two countries in field of animation. We finally want to provide the basic data to develop the creation material for the global animation content based on these two countries throughout this research.