The Creator of the Second Dimension

The content of the third episode of "Songhai Idol is Legend" returns to the practice and daily life of traditional idols. It is mixed with naming the idol group, and finally a performance. Incidentally, the awakening of serious idols Li Ai and others.

"Rotten Xiuxiu" has become the name of this zombie girl idol group, which makes people have an indescribably weird feeling.

As far as Han Qingwen is concerned, although the story of this episode has inherited the previous nonsense, the real focus is on the final performance.

When he saw seven zombie girls dancing beside the empty road and in the shadow of the abandoned factory chimney, Han Qingwen almost cried out in surprise.

Because this dance is all hand-painted.

Han Qingwen has seen a lot of 3D performances of idol dances, and they are not agile enough, but more than stiff. He has learned animation, so he naturally knows how energy-intensive hand-painted dances are, and he didn't force it.

But the animatronics did it.

In the four-minute-long performance, the phantom animation is fully hand-painted, and the number of drawings is extremely high, which is smooth and visible to the naked eye.

Not only that, but the overall dance design is also very ingenious, including the horizontal and vertical changes of the formation. It can be seen that it is carefully designed for open-air performances, which is completely different from the "house dance" with fixed shots and dancing.

Although in the animation, only a little girl witnessed the performance of several people, but outside the screen, this performance was discussed by tens of thousands of people.

On Weibo, this performance was intercepted and spread as a short video, which became a hot topic.

[Legendary Foodies]: I'm blowing this show, the idol animations in the past are really weak!

[A Bowl of Egg Fried Rice]: I have watched this passage ten times, the swing of the clothes, the movement of the hair with the body, every detail is so perfect, I declare that this year is the first year of Chinese idol animation!

[Higher standard]: How was this animation drawn? No serious original painting can achieve this level of precision. Could it be 3D to 2D with motion capture? I remember the game screen of "Breath of the Wild" is pretty good 3D rendering 2D.

[Dumplings with Vinegar]: It can’t be 3D motion capture. You’ve seen those 3D shots. The actors all wear tights and rely on the capture points to record the movements. There is no way to capture the clothes and hair like this animation. The movements are so finely delineated.

[Animation Marshal]: I think it should be rotoscoping, or at least refer to the curves of rotoscoping, otherwise there would be no such delicate picture.

[Yellow little mouse]: It feels like there is no technical content in rotoscoping, isn't it just converting the image into a line picture.

[lxt9]: Don’t underestimate the rotoscoping. Even with rotoscoping, if you want to draw the movement trajectory of the clothes so perfectly, you need strong original painting skills and an accurate understanding of the role of inertia.

"What is rotoscoping?"

On Sunday morning, after breakfast, Li Xue casually checked Weibo and saw someone discussing the dance in the third episode of "Songhai Idol is Legend", so she asked Han Qingwen curiously.

"Uh, to put it simply, it is to paste the paper on the screen, then play the video, and draw on the image through it, that is, to trace the lines in the video."

After watching that dance, Han Qingwen was shocked and reminisced.

It was definitely not 3D production, it was undoubtedly hand-painted, but after someone mentioned it, Han Qingwen thought of the possibility of rotoscoping.

Some sports animations often use this method to capture the movements of athletes on the real field and use them as competition scenes.

"That seems pretty easy?"

Li Xue thought about it, it was like following a painting, it didn't seem too difficult.

"No, rotoscoping is not that simple. For example, in the animation "Songhai Idol Is a Zombie", the proportions of many characters in it are actually unrealistic. For example, Lily, who is a child with a body shape, cannot be found in reality. If In the case of rotoscoping, there is a big gap between the actor and the character's figure, which makes it even more difficult to draw."

Han Qingwen recalled what Lin Shuyi and Wu Hongyan mentioned when chatting.

For sports animations, the body proportions are relatively realistic, the difference in body shape is not large, and the difficulty of rotoscoping is very small, but for this kind of dance animation, the body proportions of the characters are not consistent, so it is a lot of trouble to rotoscope, at least there is no way to simply copy, only use for reference.

"This is indeed hand-painted, perhaps using rotoscoping technology to assist the painting, but what is reflected in it is the real skill of the original painter."

Han Qingwen replied that in the afternoon, there was finally movement on Weibo.

First of all, a group of original painters in the industry expressed their opinions. Among them, [The Shepherd of the Library] clearly stated that this is not 3D rendering, but hand-painted. It is very likely that rotoscoping was used. Even with rotoscoping, the quality of this dance is extremely high, no less than normal hand drawing.

Then, the official Weibo of Fantastic Animation made a voice, saying that this dance was indeed completed using rotoscoping technology, and also announced a dance segment of the original line drawing photography.

In the clip, it can be seen that there is no coloring, and only some drawing instructions are being performed smoothly with music, which is no different from the main animation.

The Weibo put an end to the two-day quarrel.

What completes this performance is not 3D, but manual painting, a wonderful performance jointly completed by the original painter and animator!

Until this time, many people suddenly came to their senses. Although the performances in the previous two episodes were not serious, they were all hand-painted!

Is Fantastic Animation really planning to keep all the performance parts of this idol animation hand-drawn?

For the audience, this is of course a good thing. The hand-painted fine paintings look better than the rigid 3D.

But for people in the animation industry, it is not so comfortable.

Ningjiang animation salted fish group, on a rare Sunday, the group did not calm down, but the discussion was in full swing.

[Sand Sculpture Group Friends No. 9]: Damn it, Xu Rui is killing other companies. How can any company dare to do idol animation in the future? If there is another 3D performance, the audience will not be sprayed to death.

[Animation is a dead end]: Difficult. Originally, 3D was to save costs. Everyone made do with it. Now Fantastic Animation has really single-handedly raised the threshold of idol animation to a level that ordinary companies cannot bear.

[Bones]: I think it's good, lest the shoddy idol animation make the audience think that this kind of animation is like this, Phantom can hand-paint, and other companies can also hand-paint.

[Dogs can touch the fish]: Difficult, originally our company planned to follow suit and make an idol animation this year, but now that we have done this, the entire project has been sent back for re-evaluation. I feel that idol animation will be difficult in the future.

[Mascot of your group]: Well, tell me, Xu Rui doesn't engage in idol groups, and he doesn't have any linkage plans. How did he produce such high-quality animations? What is he planning?