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Week 3

This week is mainly to continue to do last week’s animation. Previous problems with the left hand and neck have been resolved, so the left hand and neck need to be readjusted. And the animation needs to add intermediate frames and parts of the buffer. And for the convenience of special effects, the movements and movements of characters need to be adjusted according to the normal situation. The reference video has parts of the speed up and the speed down, which have to be changed to the normal speed.

While continuing the animation, I asked zhou Qi, my classmate who knows martial arts. She pointed out some of the irregularities in this video. It took a bit longer because there were a lot of changes to make. First of all in order to move the painting. The wrist of the left hand is patent with the weapon. But as I said before, the weight of the left hand was not brushed properly, so after the weight was brushed again, the left-hand part was partially deviated, causing the hand could not hold the weapon. So this part needs fine-tuning. Some of the movements of the characters in the video are not standard. For example, the squatting horse steps directly into the knee, which is not standard enough. And because the character wears boots, the feet are hooked all the time. So the leg lifting part is very unnatural. This part also needs to be changed.

Finally, after watching my video, the teacher suggested that throwing up the weapon in the later part of rotation could make it rotate faster so that it would be fierce. After catching the weapon, the fierce stop would make people feel shocked and more handsome. So I’ve accelerated the rotation of the weapons in the back.

The second is the running movement. In front of this scene, there needs to be running like endurance. Because the video used as a reference is very stylized, there will be some differences when it is adjusted to a real person, so I need to solve this problem.

Reference Video： https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZcJz8YBJxr/?utm_medium=copy_link

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Advanced and experimental 3D computer animation

Week 1

The topic of Advanced and experimental 3D computer animation

Because I am studying abroad, I haven’t seen my cat for a long time. Therefore, I saw my cat Moqi during a video chat with my parents, and I miss him very much. So I plan to make a video with him as the protagonist and have finished my homework.

The second reason is that I have worked in a 3D animation company, so I know clearly that the motion capture technology has been used to solve the animation related to characters. Most of the role of our animators is just to adjust the motion capture. Animal-related animation, however, continues frame by frame. Even with the advent of cat or other animal capture technology. Because of the language gap between humans and animals, it is difficult for animals to perform in accordance with human ideas. So studying animal-related animation is very useful and irreplaceable in the short term.

At last I really missed my cat, Moqi. Every time I videotape with my parents, he always runs around and is not interested in me behind the camera. I really want to see him again and touch him.

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Advanced and experimental 3D computer animation

Week 2 Story Board

Long shot: a single lens has been taken for a long time, without switching footage shot. The long-shot technique is often used to express the specific conception and aesthetic taste of the director, such as deliberately capturing the atmosphere of the scene in a large range at that time, the continuous description of the inner turning point of the actors in the literary scene, and the real kung fu of the fighting scenes.

Film editing means that a large number of materials shot in the Film production, after selection, selection, decomposition and grouping, finally complete a coherent and fluent, clear meaning, clear theme and artistic appeal of the work.

Eyeline: Displays the position of the object relative to the object that he is looking at. Build a scene based on your eyes, based on your actions.

180 Degree Rule: There is an invisible axis between two characters. Do not cross the axis.

Main shot: This shows the scene and the position of each person. Then interspersed with close-ups to show the important details.

Discontinuous clip. Jumping from one scene to another in a movie is called crosscutting. The film jumps between two lines of action to show that they are happening simultaneously in time and space. The advantage is to deliberately break the continuity of the clip.

Overlay: A piece of one-shot that is placed over another shot.

Montage: IS a series of quickly connected shots that combine individual shots through a theme or through time to create a third meaning.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/film-studies-101-camera-shots-styles/

Composition

Guideline composition

Guiding line composition allows us to find lines and try to Orient them to the point we want to express.

Framing composition

Framing tells us to look for various “frames” to enhance the theme and get a good result.

Central composition

Put the subject you want to express in the center of the picture to achieve a more prominent theme and a strong sense of balance.

Diagonal composition

Let the structure of the elements be distributed diagonally to get a more dynamic picture.

Show if the character is strong by comparing the size of the character.

The camera moves.

The camera moves with the character completely evenly in speed and direction. The character stops, the camera stops, the character moves, the camera moves. And movement is everywhere.

This approach locks you into moving in an effective way in the character’s behavior

The truth about anger is speed. Emotions are expressed in the body.

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MA 3D Collabration Unit

Week 1

Our work in the first week is mainly to divide the team and determine the script. When I was chatting with students from other majors, a VFX major already had a script about martial arts. I was intrigued by this and wanted to do one of the animations about fighting, so I joined their group. Production of storyboards and animations. Since I had an internship experience at a 3D animation company, and I did exactly that during my internship, I thought I could do well. They have already found a reference for the animation of the fight that I need to adjust, and I just need to adjust the animation based on his reference.

Story Background

The martial god Ivy alone guards the artifact of his former comrade-in-arms (lover) by the sacred tree of the altar.

The cool water of the divine pool suppressed the soul of the spear, and the comrades-in-arms died in front of them and turned into this wisp of soul into their own artifacts, desperately trying to protect their own lovers. Even after many years of death, this wisp of soul does not forget the infinite intention of fighting and killing.

Ivy Looked at the restless spirits in the pool, full of sentimentality, and paced into the formation. The spear seemed to sense the call of its lover and began to emit a piercing beep. Yu Shi was touched by the love of his comrades-in-arms and decided to accompany the spear to dance for a while. With his right hand outstretched, the spear flew in.

( Dancing with spears）

Dancing with a spear, the memory brings himself back to the original scene

Scene 1: On the war zone, the fledgling himself cowardly hiding in the corner, do not dare to resist the enemy, an enemy soldier stared at the Ivy, saw that she had no power to fight back, hit Ivy to the ground, just at the moment of the last blow, the back of the comrade flashed to block the last blow…

Scenario 2:(Happy Memories).

Scene 3:When Ivy can stand alone, the two are in a trouble, and the comrades in arms block in front of Ivy to protect her, and finally she survives alone.

The spear dances to the end and gradually ends.

The spirit gradually quiets down with the passage of time, and the Ivy also remembers the deceased in the dance of the spears. In this altar, guarding a pure land behind him, from war.

Time Table

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Design for animation narrative structure and film language

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Design for animation narrative structure and film language

Douluo Continent

Thanks to the development of motion capture technology and cheap and fast UE4 rendering technology, 3D animation can be broadcast quickly and cheaply at the rate of one episode per week. In China, more and more online novels are sold by IP and adapted into 3D online animation. Different from traditional 3D animated films, most of the time they do not have a lot of technical content, as long as the modeling is good, the special effects are not bad, the fighting is intense, and the plot of the characters is not changed, they can be easily accepted by the audience. Of course, the novels chosen for adaptation are very well written or popular, so there will be a lot of popularity and traffic even before the animation adaptation begins. This is great for anyone who wants to invest in 3D animation and make a quick buck these days, just buy a popular fiction IP, and the production side only needs to be able to modify the motion capture and render using UE4. At present, many books and papers on animation are constantly studying how to make a film or 3D animation better, but there are few articles on 3D animation, which is very simple but can make money quickly. Nowadays, many such animations have been broadcast in China and have achieved high profits. Therefore, in this article, I will use the most successful network animation “Douluo Continent” as an example to discuss my views.

Adapted from the original fantasy novel of the same name by Chinese writer Tang Jia SAN Shao, the online animated series is co-produced by Penguin Pictures and Xuanji Technology. From January 20, 2018, every Saturday at 10:00, Tencent Video exclusive legal update. Won the honor of National Cartoon of the Year in 2018 Tencent Video Star Festival. In September 2020, “Douluo Continent” was selected as “IP Influence List of Chinese Online Literature” in “2019 Chinese Online Literature Ranking List”. According to data released by the 2020 China Internet Audio-visual Development Research Report, the cartoon douluo Mainland was streamed 149 million times per episode on average and 12.5 billion times in total, making it the first Domestic animation to reach 10 billion views. (CCTV.com, 2020) Douluo Continent is a time-travel fantasy novel created by Tang Jia SAN Shao. It was first published on Qidian Chinese Website from December 14, 2008 to December 13, 2009, and first published in May 2009. “Douro mainland” tells the story of how through to douro mainland Tang Three step by step to practice the soul, by people practice for god, and finally eliminated the evil forces on the douro mainland, avenged the killing of his mother, become the story of the strongest douro mainland. The development of Online literature in China has gone through a process of about 20 years. In the first four or five years, the development of online literature was very slow, and began to develop rapidly in about 2005. At present, Chinese online literature is one of the four cultural phenomena in the world, along with Hollywood, Japanese animation and Korean TV dramas. Online literature in China has 6.8 million online writers and 350 million online readers. (Zhang Wei, 2018)

The network animation Douluo Continent does not have a lot of changes in the plot. Douluo mainland novel is a typical cool prose, xiaobai prose. Shuang Wen is a relatively common type of web novels on various major novel websites. The characteristics of Shuang Wen are that the protagonist progresses smoothly from the beginning of the novel to the end of the story. Xiao Bai wen refers to the simple plot, the lack of the basic structure of the novel, and the repeated filling of meaningless words, making the content of the novel bloated. The plot is extremely routine, lack of thought, the content is plain, common in network novels. This does not mean that a novel is well written, on the contrary, it is often derogatory. But there is no denying, and it is very frustrating, that most people enjoy reading this kind of little white text. According to a survey of 2,030 people conducted by the Social Research Center of China Youth Daily, 67.6 percent of them preferred “easy and convenient reading”, 62.1 percent said “fresh language with a strong sense of The Times”, 60.3 percent said “creative freedom and variety of content”, and 54.6 percent said “grassroots and individual”. 33.6 percent said they can interact with authors and readers. (Hu Ming and Wang Congcong, 2010) The repeated cycle of “trough, climax and trough” makes Xiao Bai Wen the most suitable novel for the Internet to follow. For the reader, follow up… No need to take into account the complex and profound overall meaning, just a daily cool, can meet their busy life in the cultural entertainment needs. And the “practice” and “upgrade” presented by gamification also accords with the basic psychology of contemporary society. (Wang Kaiwen, 2019) Many people watch novels or animations not to appreciate a very good work, but to rest and relax after busy work. Therefore, they do not want to watch some very serious works, and their personality tends to conform to their own preferences, which can make them feel happy. This is also what douro mainland 3D animation does, with beautiful scenes and characters, gorgeous special effects, intense fighting, and mindless plot. Using dynamic complement technology and UE4 rendering, at a low cost to quickly broadcast the weekly episode speed, the story and the original almost no modification. But it is this 3D online animation that has become the first Domestic animation to break ten billion yuan in broadcast volume.

The fact that audiences prefer generic, unthoughtful, shallow content is bad news for those who want to create good, more artistic work. But it’s good news for newcomers or those who want to try out 3D first. You don’t need a lot of technology or a lot of investment, just buy the right IP, you can easily make money and experience.

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Zhang Wei, 2009. Douro continent. Available from: https://book.qidian.com/info/1115277/

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Wang Kaiwen, 2019. Fight through the sky silkworm potatoes. Shao Yanjun, Xue Jing, EDS. In: Collection of 20 years of Chinese Online literature. China: Lijiang Press. pp. 222-237

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CCTV network, 2020. “2020 China Network Audio-visual Development Research Report” was released, the user scale exceeded 900 million, short video to promote the market reform. [online] [https://news.cctv.com/2020/10/13/ARTIip4JhuTW6qREtOt5SV2t201013.shtml] on December 17, 2021, visit

Zhang Wei, 2018, the article writers do positive energy, make IP industry who has the world influence [online] [] on November 25, 2021, visit http://www.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0321/c32306-29880699.html