Month: April 2022

I did this project to make a 3D animated short based on a cat video.

At the company I used to work for, almost all character animation was done with motion capture technology. Even in the “Long She Yan Yi” project, the protagonist’s facial expressions are also used motion capture technology. This made me less interested in character animations, which can already be done in a very fast and cheap way. My previous project, “Jiu Ye Shen Zhuan”, can complete one episode in more than a week on average, including the rendering time. So I turned my goals and the focus of my research to animals. After all, motion capture of animals is not very common these days, and it is not easy to make animals do the actions that the video needs to do. Therefore, the research mainly focuses on the study of animal behavior and the production of 3D animation in this area. And I have a cat named Mo Qi, I love animals.

This video is a video I shot a while back about birds. At that time, I finished visiting the museum with my classmates, just in time for the Christmas market at the entrance of the museum. We bought hot dogs at the market, and the leftovers were placed on the guardrail and the pigeons in the square came to grab the food. In the end, the pigeons threw the hot dog bun directly over the guardrail. I filmed this funny scene and intend to use this video as a reference to make a 3D animation.

I don’t know why this video can’t be played on this page, but here is a link to see my reference video.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s9p9VWHCQoY

I did this project to make a 3D animated short based on a cat video.

At the company I used to work for, almost all character animation was done with motion capture technology. Even in the “Long She Yan Yi” project, the protagonist’s facial expressions are also used motion capture technology. This made me less interested in character animations, which can already be done in a very fast and cheap way. My previous project, “Jiu Ye Shen Zhuan”, can complete one episode in more than a week on average, including the rendering time. So I turned my goals and the focus of my research to animals. After all, motion capture of animals is not very common these days, and it is not easy to make animals do the actions that the video needs to do. Therefore, the research mainly focuses on the study of animal behavior and the production of 3D animation in this area. And I have a cat named Mo Qi, I love animals.

This video is a video I shot a while back about my cat. His name is Moqi (万俟), it’s my Ragdoll cat. He is 2 years old. At that time, a fly flew into my room. Mo Qi thought it was very interesting, so he started to play with it. Cats especially like small things that move, and flies are one of them. This video starts from Moqi discovering the fly and playing with it, then the fly flies out of the window, and at the end, Moqi can only lie on the window and look out.

I have many videos about Moqi, but I think this one is the most suitable, not only the length of the video is right, but also this video is telling a very complete story. From the time the flies came in, the cat played with the flies, until the flies flew out, and finally Moqi lay on the windowsill and looked out. No one was hurt during this period, and the poor fly was free. Moreover, when Moqi is playing with flies, the range of motion is also very large, which is very worthy of research and the production of animated short films.