Upgrade The World From Hongmeng

Chapter 152: Playing Animation in the Virtual World

On October 10th, Wu Hao, Du Feng’s boss, Tang Xin, and Song Zhe held a meeting in the virtual world to discuss the restart of the manga-to-animation project that had been suspended for two months.

Liu Hanqing attaches great importance to this pilot project. He has recruited elite soldiers from the Manga Reform Project Department, and formed a strong team with Song Zhe as the core.

Wu Hao first made a speech: “Hello everyone, today is the first meeting between Yaozhai Yunchuang Studio and Long Weiyun’s Creative Comics Working Group. Let’s get to know each other first.”

“This is Tang Xin, the person in charge of Yaozhai Yunchuang Studio…This is Song Zhe of Long Weiyun’s Manga Reformation Working Group. For the manga animation work “Splitting the Sky”, I would like to ask both of you. “Wu Hao introduced the identities of the two parties, and Tang Xin and Song Zhe nodded each other to indicate that they knew each other.

“This is Du Feng’s boss, the original author of “Splitting the Sky” and the shareholder of Yaozhai Yunchuang Studio. From now on, he will be mainly responsible for the selection of works.” Wu Hao continued to introduce the identity of Du Feng’s boss to Song Zhe, and both sides smiled. Nodding greetings.

After briefly introducing the identities of the two parties, Wu Hao immediately cut to the topic: “Next, let’s sort out the work of manga animation… Song Zhe, you first talk about the animation production process.”

Song Zhe stood up, called up a whiteboard in the virtual space, and automatically displayed a work flow chart on it.

“Animation in the virtual world will be very different in process.”

“The first step is design work, including character design, scene design, prop design, and lens design. The system provides a small program called a design assistant. Design work for scene atmosphere, lens special effects, etc.”

“In the second step, we need to determine the storyboard scene based on the script… In the past, the director would use the simple auxiliary tool of the storyboard to draw sketches similar to comic strips based on the text script to express the actions described in the script. The storyboard is in While drawing the lens, the actions, lines, time, photography instructions, picture connection, etc. were all explained accordingly.”

“Now we create animations in virtual space and no longer need storyboards. The system provides a small program called a scene customization tool to provide quick and effective assistance. The entire animation scene is made under visual conditions. Finished, customize the actions and expressions of the virtual doll, the tone and intonation of the lines, select and fine-tune martial arts special effects, the position of the lens, the connection processing of the scene and the picture.”

“Now we use virtual dolls, and the performances performed in 3D virtual interactive scenes are all customized by the Internet celebrities on a set of specific virtual dolls, and the interactive effects obtained are not bad. Judging from customer feedback The expressiveness of these small scenes is not worse than that of professional directors. In the production of “Splitting the Sky”, whether we continue to use the model of Internet celebrity creation or hire professional directors, this issue must be clarified.”

“The third step is editing and post-production. The editing is relatively simple. Combine shots one by one in order, appropriately cut out the useless parts, and edit the combination method at the junction of each shot; post-production includes sound enhancement. , The adjustment of the fineness of the picture, the later fine-tuning of the atmosphere and so on.”

“The following will be directed by An An, our working group, to demonstrate for everyone how to complete a simple animation work.”

Song Zhe switched the meeting room space to the animation creation space.

“Hello everyone, I’m An An, and welcome to the animation creation space. Below I will show you how to make a simple animation.” An An is still lively and cute, and doesn’t look like a reliable director at all.

“First of all, let’s complete the design work.” An An put his hand in the virtual space, and a light screen appeared in front of everyone, with four square options written on it: character design, scene design, prop design, and lens design.

An An first clicked on the character design, and a large number of selection boxes and data input boxes appeared on the light screen.

“The protagonist of this animation is called Abai, who is a straightforward martial artist. I have entered his data into the system in advance. Let’s take a look at the results of the production.” An An clicked the generate button in the light screen.

A golden aperture appeared from the air and fell to the ground, and the virtual doll gradually formed in the aperture.

The protagonist, A Bai, is a naughty boy with pigtails. He is not tall, but looks very strong.

“After the virtual character is generated, you can fine-tune the unsatisfactory places. For example, the braids are too exaggerated. We can flatten him…” An An fine-tuned the protagonist of the animation. The whole process is visual and very intuitive.

After getting the protagonist A Bai, the next step is to design the heroine Lingling and the pet Awang. The whole process is efficient and interesting.

“After completing the character design, let’s try the effect of their interaction.” An An called up the script, selected a scene, and pressed the play button on the screen.

The character and the pet dog disappeared at the same time, and then appeared not far away. The protagonist A Bai was hiding behind a stone, but the heroine Lingling looked around in fear.

“Abai, is that you?” Lingling asked timidly.

“…” Abai didn’t move, obviously trying to scare Lingling.

“Wow…” Ah Wang ran from a distance, went around behind the stone, and licked madly at A Bai.

“Abai!…you die for me.” Lingling said He Dongshi.

“Haha, haha…Lingling…what a coincidence, why are you here so late?” Abai was arrested and had to pretend to have a chance encounter.

“Go to hell…you are a pervert!” Lingling was extremely angry, transformed into the image of Yasha, and rushed forward to beat Abai violently.

The whole plot is very simple, only the characters interact, and the screen looks very monotonous.

“Now let’s add props!” A scary ghost mask appeared on A Bai’s face, and a thick wooden stick appeared in Lingling’s hand.

“Plus the scene!” A deserted village suddenly appeared around the character, with a bright moon above his head. With An’an’s adjustments, the light in the deserted village was getting darker and darker, and there was a faint mist floating in the sky, which seemed very mysterious. .

“Set the position and angle of the shooting lens again!” Several blurred photo pigs were placed in different positions of the scene.

“Finally, we add sound effects, and then play it again.” An An pressed the play triangle.

This time the picture is a lot more vivid, the picture will also automatically focus on the characters according to the plot development, and also use the cute effect, the characters are more expressive in different emotional states, and the light and shadow changes in the scene are inserted. The music that sets off the atmosphere, a very comfortable animation clip takes shape.

“Next, we can adjust the unsatisfactory details. For example, Bai’s evasion and chasing action is too rigid, we can use the action special effects of’Fart and piss’. For example, Lingling is not weak enough when she is afraid, we can use the’Poor’ action. Special effects…”

The character interaction can also be played at a slow speed, so that the director has time to adjust the unsatisfactory actions and expressions. The whole process is very intuitive and simple. It didn’t take long for An An to complete the adjustment work, and a simple animation scene was completed.

“Manager Song, I think this is not making animation, but’playing’ animation!” Tang Xin was shocked by the complete production process. The whole process was not only efficient but also very interesting, even she wanted to adapt herself by herself. Comic works.

“Miss Tang is right. This is the effect that Mr. Wu requested to achieve, visual creation, and’playing’ film and television animation.” Song Zhe is very proud.