The gains from the tutorial were enough to make Zhou Yan overjoyed, but the badge task that followed was enough to give him a headache: making a cartoon worthy of the title of animation master.
Zhou Yan racked his brains and thought about it all morning, and finally set his sights on Master Jin's novel "Yue Nv Sword".
However, before starting to compile the script, Zhou Yan first asked the system a question: "System, can the data in the virtual space be exported?"
"Information storage data in standard format can be exported."
After getting the answer he wanted, Zhou Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
According to normal operations, Zhou Yan would have taken almost five or six years to produce an animated film of "Yue Nv Sword" by himself. However, if Zhou Yan's plan was to switch to a full ink animation film, this time would have to be multiplied by ten. Take the first ink animation "Tadpole Looking for Mom", the first step produced by Shanghai Art Film, as an example. A group of staff from Shanghai Meiying took more than a year to produce a 20-minute animation, and Zhou Yan plans to make "Yue Girl"
The duration of "Sword" is controlled at about ninety minutes, and he still fights alone, so the production cycle takes at least fifty years...
But if you put it in the virtual space, everything is easier to say. A hundred years of use only costs more than a thousand points, and Zhou Yan currently holds almost 45,000 points.
Originally, the ink-and-wash style could also be realized using the special effects check in the animation production software, but as soon as the idea came up, Zhou Yan gave up: Only by using real ink-and-wash animation can it be worthy of the master badge.
After deciding on the plan, Zhou Yan’s consciousness entered the virtual space during the dinner break.
The script of the cartoon can be slightly modified from the novel. The storyboard script is basically some key frames, or famous scenes...
Next, Zhou Yan needs to refine those split-shot scripts and expand them into animated films.
It turns out that in the ink animations produced by Shanghai Art Film Studio, the backgrounds are all fixed, but the ambitious Zhou Yan planned to express every frame with ink paintings.
In order to achieve a high-definition effect, when drawing the manuscript, I used super large, standard seven-foot rice paper of two meters four by one meter three.
Thanks to Wu Ming, Lian Jie and Ming, when fighting, whether it is Wu Guo or Yue Yue, the action design uses the moves in the book "The Way of the Sword" that Wu Ming passed to Zhou Yan, and the movements of the heroine A Qing
, all the moves used by Wuming were secretly learned by Zhou Yan when he competed with Wuming.
Two hours of material and nearly 300,000 original drawings took Zhou Yan almost a hundred years to redeem. He originally only redeemed a thousand points. After completing the drawings, he redeemed them for another fifty years.
After the sketch is completed, the next step is to take pictures.
But before filming, Zhou Yan still needed to make a camera and film. At this time, those distorted country tutorials from Walt Disney and "Tom and Jerry" came in handy.
In order to restore the beauty of traditional Chinese painting to the greatest extent, Zhou Yan spent several years making a simple 35mm film with a resolution of up to 6k and a matching camera.
I don’t know if it’s because the film was directly generated from the theoretical knowledge in Zhou Yan’s mind. After the shooting was completed, the resolution of the finished film far exceeded 6k.
Although the effect is ideal, Zhou Yan's head is a bit bigger: high resolution means that when converted into digital format, the size will be correspondingly larger.
Of course, the completion of filming does not mean that the work is over. The film still needs to be rendered and edited. As for further dubbing and other work, Zhou Yan plans to do it outside.
The last step in the virtual space, and the most important step, is to properly convert the film into a digital format. The principle is very simple: use a scanner to convert the image on the film into a digital image, and then encode it into a video format. But just making a film scanner took Zhou Yan ten years.
However, sharpening a knife does not waste time cutting firewood. After the first film scanner was obtained, dozens of film scanners soon appeared in the virtual space.
After the scan, Zhou Yan’s more than fifty years of redemption were running out.
When reviewing the production process, Zhou Yan suddenly discovered that he could actually directly build a large scanner to scan the original painting into a picture...
Then, Zhou Yan was dumbfounded.
However, after thinking about it for a moment, I quickly felt relieved: the principle of a film scanner is somewhat similar to that of a photolithography machine, and when making a digital scanner, I also reviewed the chip manufacturing process I had just learned. Although these chips
It is generated directly using your own "understanding"...
In the remaining few months, Zhou Yan, who was really bored, paid back the "debt" he owed years ago - the air purifier. All the designs were hand-painted, and the shapes "referenced" the past.
The Bamuda air purifier that won the Red Dot Design Award.
At that time, this thing was a big one that was "referenced", but now, before Bamuda was born, Zhou Yan's appearance design can be regarded as original.
The next day, Zhou Yan went to the Digital Mall to buy two 40g hard drives and exported the data in the virtual space.
2007 has begun, and the beginning of the new year also means that the semester has come to an end.
Many students in the dormitory who did not usually attend self-study began to occupy the study room, and many people who usually did not speak during class began to ask the teacher questions.
Of course, the most useful question to ask teachers is naturally the scope of the exam. And many teachers’ answers are quite disappointing.
"What I usually talk about are all key points!"
However, to the surprise of many students in the class, Zhou Yan, who usually likes self-study, rarely does so anymore...
Zhou Yan really wanted to go to self-study, but unfortunately the transmission speed of the USB interface in 2006 was really impressive. It took Zhou Yan four self-study nights and an overnight stay to transfer the entire animation pictures to his broiler.
The processing speed of large servers is naturally much faster than that of desktop computers. Less than an hour after being uploaded to the server, an animated movie of more than 40 GB has already become a semi-finished movie.
Of course, such a semi-finished product is still a long way from being playable: dubbing, soundtrack, and post-processing must be added.
By this time, Zhou Yan was no longer in a hurry, and leisurely collected folk music from the Internet that could be used as a soundtrack.
In ancient times, "Sinzhu" refers to musical instruments, "Sinzhu", specifically string instruments and bamboo wind instruments such as qin and Xiao.
"Yue Nv Sword" takes place in the Spring and Autumn Period, and when making the animation, from architecture to scenery, Zhou Yan used the memories he got from Sheng Wu in the trial mission, in order to be worthy of the simplicity and simplicity of the Spring and Autumn Period.
Naturally, the accompaniment of Zhou Yan's ink-style animation is naturally based on "silk and bamboo" musical instruments.
When the heroine, the shepherd girl Ah Qing, appeared on the stage, Zhou Yan played "Shepherd Boy Piccolo"; Bai Yuan, who taught Ah Qing swordsmanship, appeared on the scene, and the soundtrack was changed to the playful suona song "Entering the Sedan"; during the fight, the guzheng version of "The Climb of the Sedan" played.
"General's Order", impassioned and fast-paced.
The second female Xi Shi appeared on the stage, with "Huanxi Sand", the beautiful Jiangnan water town, and melodious ancient songs, making people temporarily forget that this was during the Wu-Yue War; when A Qing was training Yue swordsmen, "General's Order" reappeared, but
A little more majestic, a little less agile.
At the end of the day, Ah Qing defeated thousands of troops with one hand, and the background music was "Ambush from Flying Daggers"; in the end, accompanied by the desolate "Pipa Song", Ah Qing left sadly and disappeared into the vast mountains.