animation production
Nowadays, animation and the addition of computers make it easier to make animations, so many people on the Internet use FLASH to make short animations.
For different people, the process and method of animation creation may be different, but the basic law is the same. The production process of traditional animation can be divided into four stages: overall planning, design and production, specific creation and shooting, and each stage has several steps:
1, overall design stage
1) script. The first step in any film production is to create a script, but the script of an animated film is very different from a feature film performed by a real person. Dialogue in general movies is very important for actors' performances, while in animated movies, we should try to avoid complicated dialogues. The most important thing here is to express visual action with pictures. The best animation is achieved through funny actions, in which there is no dialogue, but visual creation stimulates people's imagination.
2) Storyboard. According to the script, the director will draw a sketch of a story similar to a cartoon (a shot drawing the script) to show the actions described in the script. The storyboard consists of several segments, and each segment consists of a series of scenes. A scene is generally limited to a certain place and a group of people, and the scene can be divided into a series of shots as picture units, thus constructing the overall structure of an animation. While drawing each shot, the storyboard should have the corresponding action description, telling the truth time, photography description and picture connection as its content. Generally, if there are about 400 shots in a 30-minute animation script, a storyboard with about 800 pictures will be drawn.
3) Shooting table. The production schedule is the schedule of the whole film production compiled by the director, which is used to guide the unified coordination of all parties in the animation creation group.
2. Design and production stage
1) design. The design work is to determine the form and modeling of background, foreground and props on the basis of storyboard, and complete the design and production of scene environment and background map. Design characters or other characters, and draw several standard pages from different angles for other animators' reference.
2) sound. In animation, because the action must match the music, the sound recording must be completed before animation. After the recording is completed, the editor must accurately decompose the recorded sound into each picture position, that is, the second (or first) picture begins to speak, how long it will last, and so on. Finally, the whole sound course (or track) should be decomposed into a list, which corresponds to the sound of each picture position for the reference of animators.
3. Specific creative stage
1) Original painting creation. Original painting creation is some key pictures of animation drawn by animation designers. Usually a designer is only responsible for a fixed role or other roles.
2) intermediate illustration production. Intermediate illustration refers to a picture starting from two important positions or frames, usually between two original paintings. The assistant animator makes the middle diagram, and the rest artists interpolate and draw the connection diagram of the role action. Interpolating the continuous action of the painting between the original paintings to meet the specified action time and make it close to the natural action.
Animation production is a very tedious and arduous work, and the division of labor is extremely detailed. Usually divided into pre-production, production, post-production and so on. The system includes planning, work setting, fund raising, etc. Production includes split mirror, original painting, animation, coloring, background painting, photography, dubbing, recording and so on. After the production is completed, it includes synthesis, splicing and screening.
Tv version: it is an animated version played on TV.
OVA: Original video animation, compared with TV, can generally be used as OVA works, and it must be a video (or LD/VCD) that has not been shown on TV or theater when it was first released, but has been shown on TV or theater and then released.
Load, the full name of original animation CD or original animation DVD, is similar to OVA, and the media include DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Theater version: animated film version.
Web animation: created on the premise of being open on the Internet, and played in the form of animation now watched or downloaded.
Experimental animation: also known as "artistic animation", it is usually an animation work created for non-commercial purposes.
* Music:
OST: soundtrack (soundtrack album). Collect music related to animation.
BGM: background music.
OP: title song/theme song
Ed: Ending song
* subtitles at the beginning and end of the film:
Supervision: equal to the "director" in China.
Script: The person who writes the script is also called story composer.
This is not the same as a script. Japanese TV animation is usually adapted from comics, novels or games. Comic writers and animators are usually different (there are exceptions, such as some works by Miyazaki Hayao, and GAINAX often makes original animations himself), so the word "original" comes into being. Refers to the author of the original comic book/novel. For example, the original work of cowboy BEBOP is Hajime Yatate. (About Hajime Yatate, friends who have seen General Dream should know this allusion, but it seems that there are still many people who don't know it at present. I will introduce it later. )
Actor: voice actor, voice actor
Staff: All members involved in animation production (generally shrimp and millet will be included)
Production: usually refers to the company responsible for drawing animation, because making an animation in Japan usually requires n departments/companies with clear division of labor, which is a bit like assembly line operation. This word also needs everyone's attention. The production level of an animation is often influenced by the production unit. Sometimes even looking at the name of the animation company can tell whether this film is worth collecting.
* (This term in the circle has not been carefully investigated, and it seems to be just a common word among domestic enthusiasts)
Otaku: Japanese, meaning "otaku". At present, the accepted meaning in China is: a subculture group that is easy to immerse itself in the fantasy world and lacks normal social life experience. In popular terms, it is a group of people who are crazy and enthusiastic about animation. For example (just to mention briefly):
For example, an otaku like Eva can recite the Chinese, Japanese and English names of each apostle, study the New Testament and the Old Testament in detail, and be familiar with the differences between Judaism, Christianity and Catholicism. Pay attention to all the activities of GAINAX ... master Freud's theory ... and become a member of a cult. ...
Wang Dao: A very popular word recently. It means "authority", "truth", "respect" and "most important". There is a group of cartoons called King's Dog. It seems to be about sun yat-sen, um ... what is king in today's society? For this website, maybe the king is ... money at present. (I really need it ~ ~)
Outbreak: Wild. Go crazy. The symptoms are usually eye discoloration and crawling. Sometimes white gas comes out of your mouth ... it depends.
Typical role ............ Eva's phone number ... (Everyone: Don't be partial to someone ~ Month: It was ... It was a beautiful day ~) By the way, if you encounter similar situations, please leave the scene quickly or prepare 200 fire extinguishers to prevent accidents. ...
BT: short for pervert.
BL: Boys' love, homosexuality.
Love That Girl
LOLI: In Japanese, "little girl" means/kloc-a little girl under 0/2 years old. LOLI can also be used as an adjective In the eyes of individuals, LOLI's standards can be different. If she is small and cute, she can be called LOLI, the most typical one is Xiaoji.
Zheng Tai: A word with the same attribute as Lori, which refers to the younger brother below 12.
Fake mother: usually refers to a male role disguised as a woman. After cross-linking, there are often strong cute attributes, and some of them may be better than ordinary female characters.
CP: Couple means pairing, which is mainly used in the works of the same person.
PK: It turned out to be "jumping the street". You can understand its meaning literally. It originally refers to a triad ritual (throwing yourself into the street? ), now it means to fight.
Residual thoughts: What a pity. The extended word is "broken thoughts" ... you can do something similar yourself.
Shut up: shut up.
XD: This needs everyone's imagination. The first explanation: x stands for m, and I don't need to say it next. The second explanation: an emoticon. Personal understanding is "down" or "dizzy". The third explanation: rotating the graph 90 clockwise can be regarded as a bad smile.
Mouth Hu: modal particles. Equivalent to "shit!" Anger or something. It can also be written as "mouth Gu Yue" (expansion)
KUSO: The meaning of spoof. But it can also be used to express a sigh. In animation, you can often hear the hero say this word, which is often translated as "damn it ~!" "***!"
874: Verb ... the behavior of criticizing crazily in the forum. Generally speaking, if you will be criticized by 874, you must have offended an otaku or a mental derangement. It is suggested to keep a distance from this forum and improve your own strength before going or not going at all.
Amateur/Tooth: People who have watched anime for some years (2-3 years) but actually know little. Not a derogatory term.
Daren: Watch anime at all costs, in short, the kind with strong strength.
Two-dimensional software
1、SimpleSVG
SimpleSVG is a vector animation creation function software independently developed by Chinese people. Based on the latest vector graphics standard-SVG (Extensible Vector Graphics), it provides a real SVG animation creation environment, and provides users with an efficient, concise and powerful SVG animation integrated creation environment by using traditional drawing and animation methods and intelligent code programming environment.
With SimpleSVG, you can easily do the following:
1: draw various high-quality SVG vector graphics;
2. Based on the time axis, create various forms of animation, including transformation, attributes, movement, shape, sound, mask and so on. And bind the animation to the event at the same time;
3. Visually edit gradients and patterns to generate related animations;
4. Check the validity of SVG document, generate error report, and locate the error position intelligently;
5. Automatic syntax highlighting coding mechanism is convenient for you to write SVG code;
6. Intelligent event creation mechanism.
2、ANIMO
ANIMO is a two-dimensional cartoon animation production system developed by Cambridge Animation Company, which runs on SGI O2 workstation and Windows NT platform. It is the most popular and widely used system in the world, the famous cartoon >:,>, gt; These are all successful examples of applying animo. It has a working interface designed for animators. The scanned draft retains the original lines of the artist. Its quick coloring tool provides the functions of automatic coloring and automatic line sealing, and is integrated with the color model editor to provide unlimited colors and palettes. A color model can set multiple "color assignments". It has a variety of special effects, including lighting, shadows, camera lens push and pull, background blur, water waves, etc., which can be combined with two-dimensional, three-dimensional and real shooting.
The new version of Animo6 has made a lot of updates and supplements in terms of ease of use and functions, thus improving the efficiency of the entire production pipeline of Animo users from system construction, scanning, processing and coloring to synthesis and output.
The best Animo system ever
"For Animo6.0, we are concerned about how to respond to the requirements of users, and now we are very happy to get the required results. Our development team has made great efforts in the release of this version, and I believe it will bring our users the best Animo system ever. Phil Barrett, chief technical director of Cambridge Animation Systems, said.
"Animo has always been committed to providing users with an experience, and the 6.0 version is much better than before." Cormac Slevin, product support manager at Cambridge, agrees. "It is faster and more powerful, and it contains many very useful new features according to users' needs."
The exciting new features in Animo6.0 include:
Support layered Adobe Photoshop PSD and TIFF files, allowing each layer of images in the background or foreground to be filtered, converted and combined with other Animo elements separately.
Layered output, which allows Animo scenes to be layered as image files, layered PSD files or layered QuickTime movies, so as to use tools such as Apple Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects more flexibly in post-production.
In the scene diagram and Xsheet, the extended menu system provides the function of directly using the timing, keying, time sequence and nodes in the scene diagram and photographic table.
Placement tools for image sequences, including keyboard shortcuts and a new line drawing property window, are used for drag-and-drop placement and allow integration with third-party animation works.
The movie node supports the synthesis of QuickTime or AVI file formats in Animo scenes, and the newly added layered movie node can input layered QuickTime movie files.
The blur of autofocus plane in multi-plane camera will produce focal length stretching effect.
Access to third-party application image editing during composition, such as Adobe Photoshop.
Support automatic tracing in coloring module, automatically simplify tracing and save time in tracing process.
Flip the draft, allowing the shadows on the back of the draft to be scanned and automatically aligned.
One-click authorization configures PPLENDEZVOUS technology, which makes the generation of Animo network faster than before.
3. Comic Studio
The world's first professional cartoon software
ComicStudio is a professional animation software produced by Celsys Company in Japan, which perfectly reproduces the traditional animation technology on the computer. Make comic creation completely out of paper, and save a lot of money for comic teaching.
Comic studio has completely realized the digitalization and paperless comic production, and the whole process from naming to comic production is carried out on the computer. ComicStudlo software can freely choose various types of special pens. Its unique vectorization technology can automatically shape pen lines. The drawn lines can be thickened or thinned, and the curvature of the lines can be freely modified as required.
Comic Studio's professional cartoon creation software has and contains various professional skills of cartoon drawing.
Methods and professional tools. For example, you can make a draft directly on the handwriting board according to the characteristics of comics, and then proceed.
Change all parts until you are satisfied, and save or print the work. There are all kinds of attached pictures in the software.
The effect of the "concentration line", you can also scan your favorite picture as a background point. Another example is:
A variety of dot paper necessary for comic works has been stored in comic Stidio software.
In the toolbar, let the author choose (you can also create your favorite point paper as needed). Type after finishing the manuscript.
Printing will never affect the effect of the work.
Easy-to-understand operation methods, quick and concise production methods, colorful painting skills and advancement.
The creativity of thinking is the novelty that ComicStudio brings you. Will become a must when you create.
A rare helper and a powerful tool to realize economic value! It can also provide great help for animation teaching.
The new product "ComicStudio" (Comic Studio) of Japan CELSYS Co., Ltd. has been popular in the Japanese market since it was sold on August 10, and 5000 sets have been sold in the first month. ComicStudio is the first cartoon making software in the world. From professional writers to amateur writers, all cartoonists can enter the digital painting environment. CELSYS has developed a unique "vector drawing technology" for the first time in the world (applying for an international patent). With the digital sketchpad, real-time data vectorization conversion can be carried out, so that digital pens and paper can be reproduced on the printer with high definition. ComicStudio is a one-stop operation from manuscript writing, line drawing, texture, dialogue to printing. Compared with the traditional operation efficiency, it has been greatly improved and revolutionized, which has aroused great concern in the cartoon industry. The retail price of "ComicStudio" in Japan is 34,800 yen (about 2,300 yuan), which can be purchased in all major computer stores in China. ComicStudio, the world's first cartoon software, can publish cartoons in ComicStudio.net, which is the only cartoon website with free publishing and reading. ComicStudio was first exhibited at the 3rd International Comic Exhibition held in Beijing in August. English and Chinese versions are under preparation and will be listed in the near future.
CELSYS, a joint-stock company, was established in May of 199 1, and is dedicated to the design, development and sales of image-related software and the design and production of multimedia content. 1993 animation software "retas! Pro "brings traditional animation without paper and film to the computer. The strict requirements of professionals, high-quality images and easy-to-learn operation interface have been highly praised at the production site. At present, about 70% of the animation programs shown in Japan are made by computers, and more than 90% use "RETAS! Dear. " "Leita! Pro "has not only become an industry standard in Japan, but also quickly entered the international market, accounting for about 60% of the international market. CELSYS aims at the animation and comics that Japan is best at, and intends to provide comprehensive digital supporting tools.
Tuz
TOONZ is the best cartoon animation software system in the world. It can run on IRIX platform of SGI super workstation and windows NT platform of PC, and is widely used in cartoon animation series, music films, educational films, advertising films and so on.
TOONZ uses a scanner to digitally input the pencil sketches drawn by the animators into the computer, and then carries out line processing on the drawings, detects the drawings, splices the background images to configure the color palette, colors the drawings, establishes a photographic table, synthesizes the color drawings with the background, adds special effects, synthesizes the previews, and generates the final images. Use different output devices to output the results to video tapes, movies, HDTV and other visual media.
The use of TOONZ not only retains your familiar workflow, but also retains your unique artistic style. At the same time, you throw away the heavy labor of manual coloring, the repeated labor of remaking with the camera and the waste of film, get real-time preview effect, smooth cooperation mode, and quickly reach the high quality level you need.
Avid company
main products
TOONZ 2D cartoon system, SOFTIMAGE|XSI 3D animation system, Xpress, MC, Symphony nonlinear editing system, SD/HD post-stunt production system, Unity*** shared network storage system, Air-Space, I-news, news cut news automatic broadcast system, Protools audio workstation, Film Composer film non-editing system, illusion, Matador film stunt synthesis system, etc.
Main target market
2D/3D animation, film/TV nonlinear editing, video network, memory, film and television special effects, audio products, etc. , providing all-round solutions for program production, transmission, broadcasting and storage.
Participate in the production of film and television works
Titanic, the return of the mummy, Jurassic Park, etc.
China's main customers.
CCTV, BTV North Film Studio, Shanghai Film Studio, Xi 'an Film Studio; Beijing Broadcasting Institute, etc.
The finishing touch pen aided animation production system
The only animation software in China.
The finishing touch aided animation production system is the first computer aided animation production software system with independent copyright in China. The software was jointly developed by Founder Group and CCTV. Using this system to make cartoons can greatly improve the speed of drawing lines and coloring, and can produce rich animation effects such as push-pull, swing, fade-in and fade-out, Venus and so on, thus improving the production efficiency and quality.
Use animation
USAnimation is the world's first 2D cartoon production system.
With the application of USanimation, you will get the most powerful arsenal in the industry to serve your creation, allowing you to freely create unimaginable effects with traditional cartoon technology. Easily combine 2D animation and 3D images. Using multi-plane shooting, rotary focusing can push and pull the moving lens, infinite palette and infinite layers. USanimation is the only absolutely innovative interconnected synthesis system, which can instantly display the simulation effect of all layers after modifying any layer! The fastest production speed
Shadow colors, special effects and highlights are all automatically colored, which saves 30%-40% time in the whole coloring process and will not lose any image quality. USanimation system produces the most perfect "hand-drawn" lines, retaining all the strokes and lines of the artist. When the schedule is stagnant for some reason, the non-parallel synthesis speed and production speed will give you the greatest freedom.
[Edit this paragraph] 3D software
Introduction to 3DMAX
A few years ago, AutoDesk introduced 3D Studio(3DS), a 3D animation software that can run on personal computers. Its full name is 3-dimension studio, which should be translated as "3D Image Studio" in Chinese. 3D Studio MAX (hereinafter referred to as MAX) is an upgraded version based on 3DS 4.x, which is presented to us with a brand-new Windows interface and more powerful functions. Making three-dimensional animation with MAX is like being a big director-you can arrange all the characters, props, lights, cameras, scenes (including clouds, fog, snow, lightning and other special effects scenes), dubbing, editing, synthetic shots and so on. If you are a designer, designing a product model with MAX feels like a sculptor and a magician. Complex models can be miraculously built almost instantly. It is easier to modify and create models with MAX, and you can focus your precious time and energy on making the design more perfect and ideal. No matter what purpose you use MAX for, you will fully appreciate the fun of "work is entertainment, and entertainment is work" when working with a computer.
Maya
Maya comes from the Sanskrit "Phantom World", which is the most powerful solution integrating 3D modeling, animation, special effects and rendering. Maya is a 3D video animation tool developed by Autodesk, an internationally renowned software company, which has been loved and recommended by many animators since its release. Everyone can't help but admire the wonderful visual effects created by Maya, and its excellent functions have shocked everyone in CG. It has been widely used in animated films, animated advertisements, animated TV series, column packaging, film special effects, virtual reality, network multimedia design and other fields, and Maya has become the mainstream software in the three-dimensional world.