"Weekly task: [Professor Foundation] Upgrade animation drawing skills to level 3. Task reward: 3 months of acquired internal strength, 2 points of character level experience, 3 points of free skill proficiency."
"Strength attribute specialization improvement task: 10,000 single-leg squats in standard posture. Task reward: Opportunity to slightly improve strength attribute*1"
The single-leg squat movement in the weekly task description for strength improvement is actually quite difficult.
The single-leg squat is the pinnacle of difficulty in free-hand squats and one of the ultimate exercises for lower body strength. It puts a heavy load on the knees, the leg muscles are not developed enough, and it is extremely easy to maintain a correct posture.
injured.
The legs are the pillars of the human body and play a key role in moving the whole body. The exercise effect of this action can radiate to the spine, hips, thighs, calves and feet.
If you don't do this well, you can easily injure your knees. If you do it well, it can protect your knees and prevent knee joint injuries. In short, it all depends on whether the posture is correct and whether the intensity of the exercise is appropriate.
The average person can do twenty exercises per group, and four or five groups a day is considered very good.
If it is excessive, it will put pressure on the hip and knee joints.
However, Guan Lang is not an ordinary person, so although five thousand is a bit difficult, it is still acceptable.
He still has plenty of time this week. In addition to allocating some time to improve his animation drawing skills, he also has a lot of time to spend on strength-improving tasks.
In the next few days, Guan Lang allocated his time reasonably to the final exam and improving his skills and physical exercise.
The schedule for the final exam is quite relaxed. You only need to bring your stationery and walk to the exam room every day.
Then I wrote for half an hour to an hour before handing in the paper and leaving the examination room early.
One exam is taken every day, and the exam schedule is over in three days.
As a result, his studies in the second semester of his junior year have officially come to an end.
Time quietly entered the long summer vacation with the joy in my heart.
As the hip of one leg and the knee of the supporting leg bent, Guan Lang's body suddenly sank until the back of his thigh was tightly attached to his calf and could no longer sink. Then he bounced up explosively, supporting himself throughout the process.
The legs of the body are as stable as Mount Tai.
Guan Lang exhaled hot air and walked into the bathroom with his numb legs.
He does it alternately with his legs, and the number of times is basically the same, so there is no need to worry about strength imbalance.
Turning on the switch, the overhead shower sprayed down a stream of 37c of water.
The water flowed over his body from top to bottom, forming a thin transparent film covering the strong muscles of his body.
Just after a strenuous exercise, my leg muscles were still a little tight like a tightrope.
Hot water is like a pair of gentle hands, gently stroking the overloaded muscle tissue.
You shouldn't take a shower immediately after exercising, but given his physique, it shouldn't have any impact.
And it’s not too comfortable to take a shower after exercising until you are sweating profusely and exhausted.
Just like it is well known that you should not drink iced drinks after exercising, many people still drink them after exercising, knowing that it is not good for the body, but it feels good.
Reason tells you that this is not good, but emotion often does the opposite, shouting that I want it.
Amidst the steaming mist, Guan Lang walked out of the bathroom wearing a white bath towel.
The black and smooth hair is dripping with water drops.
It's afternoon now, and he's the only one at home, so he doesn't need to pay special attention.
After brushing his hair, he leaned lazily on the sofa and dug something out of the bookshelf on the wall behind him.
After strenuous exercise, the desire to move the body is not strong.
But the spirit is still very exciting, and this state is suitable for studying.
During these days, he read books, took online school courses, browsed various animation websites, and continued to study and practice on his own, making rapid progress in animation production.
Not to boast, but he himself felt that the high level of study in the past few days was a bit incredible. Maybe it was because there were no chores at school that affected his energy, and he was able to focus more on self-improvement.
He not only supplemented the skill tree of animators, but also learned the use of animation production software bit by bit.
Although when computer technology was immature, smooth animation could still be drawn using celluloid films.
That kind of smoothness is based on the painter's full understanding of action performance and spatial movement. A large number of operations that can now be processed through computer software are put in the brain to conceive, and finally painted into cels.
But wouldn’t it be better to use computer software to assist work more simply, saving energy and improving efficiency?
He has never been opposed to new technologies and software, nor does he insist on a purely hand-drawn style.
No matter how powerful the software and technology are, the core does not lie in them, but in the animation performance and movement rules, and in the painters who draw them.
However, after all, software is only an auxiliary tool. The most important thing is the use of people. Even if you only use PS, you can complete the entire process of an animation from pre-production to post-production.
Of course, this is just an extreme case. Generally, animation production involves the collaboration of multiple software, and it would be better if more mature and systematic animation production tools can be used. After all, modern commercial animation is a large-scale collaboration.
In engineering, excellent software can greatly improve work efficiency.
What Guan Lang is studying recently is Maya
Among them, he has been exposed to and studied it before and got started quickly. However, this is the first time he has come into contact with a professional 2D animation production system like retas, and he still has to start with the panel commands to get familiar with it.
Fortunately, many years have passed since the release of this software. There are countless tutorials and videos on the Internet. Basically, the confusion he encountered during the learning process and other people have encountered countless mistakes. He can easily find it by following the pictures.
Corresponding solutions.
During the learning process, he gradually mastered the strengths and weaknesses of various software, and figured out his own method to create some coherent animation clips.
Regardless of the pre-script and storyboard design, PS is used for the background. After the original painting and the middle painting are scanned to the computer with a scanner, retas is used to trace and refine the coloring. AE is responsible for the production of post-production special effects.
He has initially mastered the application of various software, and the next step is to continue to deepen his learning during the practice process and improve his upper limit.
Mainly around the later stages of AE learning.
The smooth dynamics of the animation depends on the artist's solid hand-drawing skills and grasp of the laws of movement. Software cannot help with this, but it doesn't matter. He is still confident in his skills, but the light pollution in the later stage
Gorgeous special effects require software processing.