《櫻時》(2011)

蔡旭晟 Shiu-Cheng Tsai

《櫻時》，動畫，23分40秒，2011。

這個動畫描述一個小男孩，在一間神祕破舊不知為何原因燒毀的舊廟，遭遇到意想不到的魔幻事件和神奇的奇幻朋友們，也回到當時廟還是華壇香火鼎盛的時候。就在這時，小男孩看到了廟被燒毀的原因了…

《櫻時》全片長約23分鐘，取材至台灣文化中特別的民俗色彩與宗教信仰.整片採獨立製片創作，前置構思準備花費將近一年時間，大量取景與參考台南與高雄等南台灣中大家熟悉的巷道小徑，與各種廟宇古蹟與街頭陣頭慶典，來營造動畫影像中台灣人最熟悉的風景與氛圍。而在接下來的兩年製作期，完全由電腦動畫和數位工具製作，並在影像表現上盡量呈現有如傳統手繪美術風景與卡通動畫的特色。

在故事上以魔幻的動畫表現，加上類似民間故事的架構，來描述一個小男孩在街道上一間廢棄的神祕廟宇中遭遇到的奇幻事件。故事裡充滿台灣民俗常見的宗教儀式.與台灣各種神明色彩的形象，並用一種比較童言童語接近卡通的可愛手法表現出來。音樂上以貼近台灣特有的民俗風味，用著民俗節奏與樂器如嗩吶，加上兒童合唱團純真又有神祕感的嗓音，來營造台灣原創具有現在草根味的動畫配樂。

Time of Cherry Blossoms, Animation, 23 min 40 sec, 2011.

This story is about a boy's adventure in the old and shabby temple where were burned by the secret reason. And the fantasy story happened unexpectedly and meet fancy friends and the spirit dolls. When he came back to the temple where was still gorgeous and bustling aforetime, and then the boy saw the accident behind the old temple...

This animation is about twenty-three minutes. The creating idea was developed from the folk color and religion. This film was made by Independent Films. It took one year to develop the idea. Many scenes in Tainan and Kaohsiung, the temple, the historic scenes and folk festival were used as a reference when painting the scenes of this film .These images were known by Taiwanese. And then it took two years to create by the computer animation technology and the digital tools. This animation presents the style of classic landscape painting and cartoon animation.

The story was written by fantasy and folk story. It describes an adventure that a boy played in the old and shabby temple. There are many Taiwanese religion and Taiwanese gods in the story. This film was timed for child's language. The original style of the music was created close to the life in Taiwan, and there are many folk rhythms of the China musical instruments and the secret sound of the Children's Choir in this animation.