As one of the important forms of popular science creation, animation is more and more loved and used by popular science creators. Medical health is an important part of popular science, and the number of works in this field is increasing year by year. This paper uses the classic narratology theory to explore the narrative strategies applicable to general medical health popular science animations from different points of views such as the setting and combination of roles, the shaping and connection of internal and external human body, the choice and switching of narrative perspectives, and the construction and arrangement of narrative structures. The study focuses on the analysis of excellent popular science animation works such as “Inside Out”, “Cells at Work” and “Osmosis Jones”, so as to provide inspiration for the creation of popular science animations of this kind.

medical health  /  popular science animation  /  narrative strategies