The relationship between animation and live-action film has always been paid much attention, and there are many articles about their connection and distinction; however, it seems that few people discuss this topic from the perspective of Anders-streben.The work tries to clarify the tendency of Anders-streben in the art genre of animation from this concept, which has both Chinese and Western aesthetic connotation. And the purpose of animation’s Anders-streben is first for its own development, and then for the pursuit of style, and the art genre of live-action film is one of the directions of animation’s Anders-streben. The work also makes a strict distinction between live-action image and live-action film, aiming to clarify animation’s preliminary Anders-streben to live-action image and two methods of animation’s further Anders-streben to live-action film, which is explained respectively by Paprika (2006) directed by JIN Min and The Lion King (2019). In the context of animation’s anders- streben toward live- action film, the work comes up with a series of viewpoints and an“animetism-cinematism-narrativity”three-dimensional axis from the angle of audience and animation works, which can lead us to have a clearer understanding and judgment of some specific animation work.