在时代快速发展背景下,我国许多传统历史文化都开始呈现变迁特点,而这种变迁并不意味对传统文化的全盘否定,而是在传承其精髓的基础上进一步发扬。以我国琴棋书画四大经典元素为例,其中的中国画在传承中既体现出传统文化色彩,同时也具备一定的美感与时代感,将其渗透到动漫设计中既可为动漫设计注入新鲜的活力,实质也为中国画的传承发展。本文主要对动漫设计中中国画的思维元素、表现元素以及造型元素的应用进行探析。 Under the background of rapid development of the times, many traditional historical and cultural developments in our country have begun to show the characteristics of change. This change does not mean a total negation of traditional culture, but is further promoted on the basis of inheriting its essence. Taking the four classic elements of Chinese poetry and calligraphy as examples, the traditional Chinese painting in the inheritance not only shows the traditional culture but also possesses certain sense of beauty and time, infiltrating it into the animation design and injecting freshness into the animation design Vitality, essence is also the inheritance and development of Chinese painting. This article mainly explores the application of thinking elements, expression elements and modeling elements of Chinese painting in animation design.