Sun Jingyao's MA Animation blog

After two months of work, I finally finished my animation. In the process, I learned a lot of animation techniques and improved a lot of soft skills.

First of all, I want to introduce the software I mainly use. My draft is mainly done on the iPad, using Filpcilpa to make the anmatic, and Procreat to draw the split. Then, after the previous work is completed, I will use Photoshop to re-draw the sketch, then color it and make it into an animation. Finally, I will put the finished lens into Pr to synthesize and make sound with Au.

In the above software, Flipclipa and Procreat are both software on iOS, which means that I can draw sketches on my ipad anytime, anywhere, using the fragmentation time to work. In Photoshop, each of my layers is independently created and colored, which means that I can easily modify and move them to create a lot of animations. In addition, I also named the files for each shot and the layers in the file. The advantage of this is that even if I am not satisfied with a shot when editing a video, or find some errors, I can easily correct the error by replacing the original file.

In the process of synthesizing animation, I made a layer of paper material on the top layer of the animation, because I wanted to achieve a printed texture from the beginning, and by adjusting the transparency and color temperature of the top material, I can easily control the animation. Brightness and white balance.

Recently, the live action version of Lion King was released, and the film uses the CG technology which was used in the 2016 Live action Jugle book to recreate this 90s cultural classic.

I personally went to the cinema to watch this movie and I want to make some comments about it as a 2D animator. So far, most of the bad reviews of this movie have been about the facial expression of the animals, because they look too much like real animals, ao that they lose the charm of the original animation. I think that the animals in the previous 2D version look flexible and cute because their images are cartoonized. The cartoon style not only exaggerate the appearance of the animals, but also make the behavior of the animals in the movie more anthropomorphic. Anthropomorphism is a major reason why humans feel that cute animals are "cute". For example, the video of animals that people like to watch on Youtube, such as the piano playing cat, is a good case of animal anthropomorphism being liked.

On July 10, Nintendo officially announced the rumored "affordable model" Nintendo Switch Lite on the official Twitter @Nintendo, the price is set at 19980 yen (excluding tax), and the release date is 2019. September 20th.

From the official price of 2340 Hong Kong dollars directly to 1490 Hong Kong dollars, almost 40% cheaper price does not have any reason for potential consumers to hesitate. The design of Switch Lite is simple and clear. Although there have been a lot of shrinks in hardware specifications, in fact, Nintendo has used "creative regression" in exchange for "commercial advancement" - the more portable and purer game console game was born. Of course, there are also criticisms. The biggest irony is that Switch Lite is a "No Switch" game console. The handle that can no longer be split, so that the gimmick that this game machine once mainly promoted disappears.

Today, Nintendo Switch is loved and supported by a large number of independent game developers. This makes the Nintendo Switch a huge game library that rivals the PS4 and Xbox one, even though it has only been available for two years.

The reason for this is simple. Indie games usually don't require too much advanced hardware to run, and compared to the huge epic AAA games, indie games are usually smaller and faster paced. In this way, the hand-held Nintendo switch system is popular with independent gamers because they can carry their favorite games with them.

On the other hand, Nintendo is also strongly supporting indie games on their system and even helping some independent games to do localization work in order to promote them to more countries.

The 3D animation "Adams Family" will be released in North America on October 11, 2019.

The story of The Adams Family begins with the series of comics serialized by the cartoonist Charles Adams in The New Yorker in 1938. The family in the painting worships death and is keen on all the gorgeous decadent things.

In 1964, ABC television first put the story of "Adams Family" on the small screen, and the episode immediately gained good ratings once it was broadcast. In the 1970s and early 1990s, the Adams family was also adapted into an animated series twice. However, it was in the 1990s, Barry Sonnfield's "Adams Family" and "The Values ​​of the Adams Family" that make the new generation of viewers finally appreciate the charm of this family. Although the two films have changed a lot on the original episodes in terms of content, they are definitely Gothic classics of a generation in terms of film quality and character shaping.

The animated version of "Adams Family" was first developed by Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment. According to reports at the time, Universal hopes to make it into a stop motion animation film and invite Tim Burton to direct the film; in 2013, MGM took over the copyright from Universal, and announced that it would make another "Adams movie closer to the original comic", directed by the two partners that made the adult animation "Sausage Party": Conrad Vernon and Greg Timan.

Video game No Man's Sky is about to usher in a major free update and has added a subtitle called "BEYOND".

No Man’s Sky is a space exploration game that focuses on "automatic generation". The maps, plants, and even creatures in the game are all generated by the game it self, it attracted a lot of players' attention when the game is not even released, but when the game was first released a few years ago, the game have a lot of bugs in it, and a lot of content in the game can't reach the standards promised by the developers, so the game recived a lot of bad reviews on the Steam platform.

But the development team did not give up on the maintenance of the game. After many updates and maintenance, the game became more and more like what they have promised, and the evaluation on Steam became mixed.

According to Hello Games, there are two key points in this update. One is to provide more social games and a richer multiplayer game experience. The other is that VR support for Unmanned Deep Space will be in this The version was officially launched.

At the E3, XBox released the latest trailer for the video game Cyberpunk 2077. At the end of the trailer, a character played by Keanu Reeves appeared. Subsequently, Keanu Reeves appeared on the stage of the E3 conference, and many players on the set were very excited.

This year's E3 also announced a notice of the  game “death strand” of the player, which was also an AAA game that hired Hollywood actors to play NPC characters. It's not hard to see that AAA game makers have begun to promote their games with the influence of celebrities. I think this is probably the beginning of video games gains more popularity, because people who don't play games before may be attracted to games because the celebrities. And become players.

On the other hand, some players have voiced opposition to Keanu Reeves' performance in E3, because he does not seem to fully understand the content of the game itself, rather than just using  his own name to promote the game. Indeed, using the celebrity effect to promote the game will cover the effort of the game makers to a certain extent, but just like ordinary film lovers do not pay too much attention to the film crew, I think the use of stars to promote the game was no problem at all.

At the beginning of 2019, a new game model in the famous MOBA game Dota2 was welcomed by many players - Auto chess，it a game mode created by a Chinese studio "Juniao Duoduo",  using the custom tools in Dota2, recently, Juniao DuoDuo decided to delete their mode in Dota2 and develop it into a standalone game.

In May, Valve released a blog on Dota 2's official website. Announced that it will develop an independent "Auto chess" game and talked about the negotiations with Juniao Duoduo in February. Although the two studios did not reach direct cooperation, they will create a new game and support each other to the maximum extent. Dota2's development team said it will help move the existing Dota Auto chess player account to the mobile version of the stand-alone "Auto chess" game.

At about 9:35 am on July 18, the first studio of Kyoto Animation in Momoyama-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto City was hit by a fire and about 40 people were injured.

The first studio of Kyoto Animation is an animation studio that has been in operation for many years. It has created many famous animation works. The reason for the fire was investigated by a mentally illned fan.

According to the latest report from NHK, an employee who was admitted to the hospital died unfortunately and the number of victims rose to 34. According to the police, the arson suspect was named Aoba Shinji, and the day before the incident, he went to the club to step on the spot. The news reports that many of the deceased are animators, dead due to attempt to save their work in the fire . This is an event that has attracted the attention of animators around the world. Many Japanese animation studios have started tp help Kyoto animation to rebuild.

The official channel of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games released an animated short, and the training of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was demonstrated in the animation through the training of the mascot Miraitowa.

Miraitowa is a mascot that has a lot of visual connections with the Tokyo Olympic logo, the animated short is made in 2D rather than 3D, I think that is because the character itself was originally designed in 2D and Japanese animation industry dose more 2D in general, therefore 2D animation is more likely to be appreciated by the Japanese people.

Recently, Amazon released the teaser trailer of its new animated serie -- "Undone". The serie was created by "Bojack horseman" screenwriter Rafael Bob - Vaxberg and Kate Paddy, the show will be available on Amazon Prime Video on September 13th.

In the 2006 live-action animated film "A Scanner darkly" (adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel), Tommy Pallotta, who collaborated with director Richard Linklater, will participate in the production of this play.

The audience who has saw "A scanner darkly" in 2006 was mostly astounded by the style of the film used by the director Richard Linklater, and the "Undone" used in the same technology is probably the same technology - "Rotoscoping".