The Integration and Innovation of Shandong Folktales in Animation Teaching in Higher Education

In the process of animation teaching and industry development, the cultivation of special talents is essential, and therefore local universities should give a sharper focus on the cultivation of unique and practical talents in distinct regional environments. By doing so, courses in colleges and universities should commence with teaching the mode and content of animation, organically infiltrate the regional cultural resources and folk culture resources with era features into the teaching, correctly guide students to explore ways like the combination of regional culture and modern animation, so that students can get enhanced in practices and realize the organic combination of theoretical teaching and practical teaching, as well as traditional culture and modern art. This is not only conducive to colleges and universities fully serving the local area, but also beneficial to the common development of domestic regional culture and animation works creation, since it renders more scientific and enriching teaching and curriculum construction for animation majors, realizing the integration and innovation of tradition and modernity, and regionalization and globalization in animation designs, so as to better inherit and carry forward regional and folk culture.