Through the study and practice of this semester, I have learned a lot and exercised our teamwork ability. Although we cannot communicate face to face, each of us is trying our best to cooperate with the organizer, a team, if your mistakes lead to the project My progress is affected, and I feel very guilty, so I have been actively cooperating, and I have completed the assigned tasks on time.

In my wroking, the team was patient to help me answer the difficulties I encountered, so I learned a lot, Jay taught me the knowledge of rendering, Lanye also taught me the knowledge of movement, we learn and help each other, The atmosphere of the team is very nice.

Through the study of this semester, I believe that my work in the next semester can make clear progress.

The quality of an excellent animator

American film director Darren Aronofsky said: “The animator must outlive the normal 24 times, one second every 24 frames.”

When making an animated film, an animator must keep all aspects of the character’s movements in mind, because the animator needs to make every movement of the model. The animator also needs to observe everything around and learn from them. Observing the things and people around you and analyzing their behavior will help the animator shape the character’s movements. The animator must also understand the camera angle and the projection of different objects in a given frame. Constantly practicing taking pictures in life helps to understand perspective.

10 characteristics of a good animator:

creativity
The design of the character must be attractive. It should make the audience like this character. So animators need to be creative and need to keep the character simple while paying attention to details. The complexity associated with them should not exist. This is what makes them more accessible and friendly. Jumping outside the boundaries helps us become good animators and makes the characters more interesting. Creativity makes your ideas different from others. An animator should know how to make anything simple artistically into something interesting.

2. Humor

Humor is the key to being a good animator. If you have a good sense of humor, your character will automatically portray it. Comedy is the key to friendliness. Humor reflects the actions and behaviors of the characters. Since almost all animated films are aimed at children, they are all made in the comedy genre. Therefore, it is important to instill a sense of humor in your character.

3. The patient

Patience makes an animator a good animator, and be patient with your work. You know that Rome was not built in a day. Don’t expect your work to be completed as soon as possible. Animation is a patient and hard work. Those animators who devote extra time to details will go a step further.

4. Good at observing

We learn from observation. We must instill this quality into ourselves in order to become a good animator. A good observer will learn from the things around him and try to apply them to his character. They have been studying the movement of objects around him. They often look for interesting movements, walks and interesting expressions on their faces when talking. Observers try to apply these qualities to characters and exaggerate them to make them more interesting.

5. Learn to perform

This may sound a little different. But if you don’t know anything about acting, how can you let your character perform? This will be of great help to your research on the body mechanics of sports. Acting in person will allow you to learn a lot about body mechanisms. You don’t have to be a good actor for this. Just understand the basics of it. Learn to observe and analyze professional actors, plays and wonderful performances. In addition, don’t forget to pay attention to the reasons and feelings after watching them. All animated characters are inspired by reality and have been enhanced to make them more entertaining.

6. Explanation

Not only learn from our reference materials, but also learn from their reference materials and explain it correctly. A good animator knows the goal of the project and strives to achieve it. He tried to adjust the reference work accordingly. He has a good understanding of a particular scene, its motivation and its importance in the movie. It is not enough to analyze your reference work. If you also analyze its inspiration to better grasp it, it will be the best. You may find a better way to do this. The look and feel of an animation project, whether it is a movie or a game, is crucial.

7. Motivated

The motivation of a good animator is a crucial quality. If you are not motivated, then it is difficult for you to be good at anything you want to do in life. If you have an idea, just pick up the paper and start drawing. Don’t wait for the next day. This way you can stay motivated.

8. Details

A good animator always pays attention to details. The animation sequence is copied onto a screen inspired by reality. Elaborating every detail of the role is a basic skill. Adding details is the basic ethics of an animator’s work. You have to spend some extra time to give your character a perfect finishing touch.

9. Teamwork

Animation is teamwork. You must work with your team members to be successful. You must have a good character and a cooperative attitude. Different people do different jobs. You should know how to work with them, listen to their voices, and work together to achieve the goals of the project.

10. Resilience

When others analyze and criticize your work, you don’t have to be too sensitive. You must learn from your mistakes. If someone doesn’t like it, it doesn’t mean you don’t know how to draw cartoons. This means that the comics still need some improvement. Just pay attention to all these features and you will know that you are on the right track to become a good animator. The distance between being a good animator and being a good animator is practice. The more you practice, the better you get. So these are some of the important characteristics of being a good animator.

After the last practice, I summarized it.

1. Import the reference of the mouth shape, extract the unique mouth shape, and make key actions
2. Adjust the width of the mouth, combined with extrusion and stretching
3. Match the position of the teeth, and the opening and closing of the mouth should be synchronized
4. The arc movement of the corner of the mouth
5. Match body movements to mouth shapes
6. Add eyebrows and eye movements
7. If it is a real person’s reference, use the animation 12 guidelines to exaggerate

So far, I have only done so much, and I will continue to finish the rest.

After finishing the cooperative project, I am going to start my personal project. I thought about it for a long time and didn’t know what to do. Then I decided to finish the performance animation last semester.

I thought about it. I think if I make a male character with a female voice, the effect will look more humorous, so I tried it.

Using a man to imitate the actions of a woman will make the character look like a gay, so I keep laughing while doing it.

During the adjustment process, I had a problem, that is, I pulled the character’s head or body, but the clothes did not move with it. I thought it was a problem when I bound the props. After repeated attempts, I tried to restart. maya, then the problem is solved.

And the use of the curve editor is also what I need to learn. This is not a simple matter.

When this kind of curve is very large, we know that this character is doing some very exaggerated movements. If we find some strange places in the preview, we can give priority to modify from this place.

After we have finished our respective parts, we are editing and rendering.This part is taken care of by Jay.

In this version, we feel that the switching of some scenes is too rigid, there are no long shots, and there are too many close shots. Due to time constraints, we cannot show every shot.

After we reported the problem to Jay, he made adjustments and added new ideas, which is the ending paragraph.

The second version

The problem in this part is that the overall posture when going downhill is different from the way we usually walk on flat ground.

This section is a walk on a downhill step. In order to better restore the state of downhill walking, I refer to some videos.

Observe that when you go downhill, you should pay attention. When you take a leg, the center of gravity is on the other leg. Avoid moving the center of gravity with the steps. Keep your knees slightly bent. Keep the center of gravity vertical to the ground. Do not lean forward or backward. Slightly smaller when walking on flat ground.

Because the slope also affects the state of walking, I adjusted the angle from the beginning to the current one, which is a relatively suitable angle.

Let’s see the finished effect.

After jay completes the scene, I am in charge of shooting and part of the action. I am mainly responsible for the walking part of the ruin scene

This is the location of the camera, and the path of travel.

In order to better reflect the characteristics of the robot, I went to learn how the robot walks.

I have summarized that when robots walk, they can’t behave like humans. Their limbs are rather stiff, so they feel a little frustrated when they walk.

Let’s preview after finishing the action

Story By Jay

A full view of the scene, there is a regular sound of hitting the cabinet in the vast ruined city
Close shot, the robot repeatedly hits the cabinet and wants to reach the place of regular work (want to water the flowerpot without flowers at home), but because of the cabinet that fell yesterday, the prescribed route was blocked, and the first-person view showed that the route was wrong Unable to resolve, hit the cabinet a few times and dropped a photo frame. The robot picked it up and wiped it twice with his hand, and was about to put the photo frame back, but found that there was a map like a treasure map drawn by a child on the back.
Robot face close-up surprised
The mid-range robot rushed out of the house. During the period, he looked back at the flower pot and went directly to the slope outside. The robot climbed up with the flower pot and fell off the flower pot and flew out.
(A few short shots in the middle talk about the process of charging and refueling the robot on the road and asking for directions)
-(Achieving the target point, the robot first-person view, the display shows the target point confirmation, the close-range small robot runs back and forth on the screen, enters from the edge, looks at the ground, then exits the viewing area from the other side, and enters from the same side in the distance , Finally remove the garbage at the target point)

There was a sudden noise, the sand on the ground was shaking, and the dust storm came.
Involve the little robot into a deep pit, a black field
After waking up, it was difficult to climb on the edge, but it found a dying grass and a small doll. At this time, it walked to the plant and wanted to water the plant. At this time, it was fixed in the first person and there was no water. , The robot beats its arm, pours out two drops of water, falls on the leaves and slides into the soil, and then the plants in the robot’s field of view grow and spread to the surroundings. The camera spreads with the plants and transitions to the robot’s point of view. The robot lies on the ground. , I thought about it and watched my watering hand slid a bit
, And then the vision gradually turns black when the battery is dead
Finally, I gave the robot a vision, and found that there was no plant spreading, and it was still the same as before. End.

After we discussed the first week, I decided on the script and started drawing the storyboard.

Because of the cabinet that fell yesterday, the prescribed route was blocked.

In fact, I’m not good at drawing storyboards. At the beginning, everyone didn’t understand it. Then I went to learn a bit and made annotations on the map.

This is the process of my drawing