Design of a Short Cartoon Film for Chinese Ancient Story

Cartoon animation has already become the mainstream of propagating culture in the network at present. China has abundant ancient civilization, how to keep and propagate ancient civilization by cartoon animation has very important realistic meaning, "frog\´s sound in lotus pool" in Judge Dee\´s mystery is selected as primitive drama in this paper, the process of settling a lawsuit is expressed by cartoon animation, which includes knowledge of a lot of disciplines, such as ancient crime, ancient law, ancient building, social psychology, animation technology, and multimedia etc. The art design of story and character in the short cartoon film for Judge Dee\´s mystery are also presented in this paper.