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

The folktales derived from folk arts are of abundant regional culture, local customs, national emotions, national spirit and the like, are one of the important forms expressing traditional cultural resources, as well as a valuable portion in the protection and inheritance of traditional culture in China. This paper holds that animation teaching and practices in colleges and universities should make full use of local folk culture resources, take the folktales in regions where the colleges and universities are located as the basis, and furnish design sources and materials for animation teaching and practices through the integration and innovation of folk culture, so as to reflect regional characteristics, connotations and values while satisfying the requirements of modern aesthetics, enrich the content of animation creation, and play a role in the inheritance and promotion of regional folk culture.