3D Puppets Animation for Encouraging Character Education and Culture Preservation in Surakarta

The creation of this art is an effort to preserve traditional arts, especially wayang kulit (shadow puppets) and as a medium for character education for the younger generation as a solution to the phenomenon of increasingly intense globalization in the present, wherein the increasingly fragile condition of the nation's morality with the increasingly hedonism and individualistic culture of life in the younger generation in Surakarta. This art creation research method is descriptive qualitative located in the Surakarta and surrounding areas, data sources include the puppet show itself, literature, and competent informants and related art creation. Stages of analysis from various sources resulting from information from both the literature review and interviews were conducted using an interactive model, where each component of the analysis included the stages of data collection, data reduction, presentation and conclusion drawing. Next is the process of designing puppet show art with a collaboration of 3Dimensi animation through several stages, namely: Envisioning Phase, Planning Phase, Developing Phase, Stabilizing Phase, and Deploying Phase. Stages of wayang kulit story selection are adjusted to the segmentation of the younger generation of viewers and the current state of society in the community, the drafting of customized shadow puppet performances and collaborations with 3Dimensional Animation technology, and the selection and design of prototypes of wayang kulit figures as intermediary characters. puppet animation 3D dimensions.