The Creator of the Second Dimension

Spring Festival, family reunion.

Xu Rui and Yi Qianqian took their daughter back to Yi's house in Jingping and spent New Year's Eve with Yi Qianqian's parents and brothers.

After only resting at home for a few days, Xu Rui immediately devoted himself to work.

The production of the special episode of "From the Abyss" came to an end, and he began to prepare a new animation.

As I told Li Ruoxuan and the others before, the story of the new animation is about animation production, but the simple original painting and animation process display are actually relatively boring, so the story will unfold from multiple aspects, including executive production, original painting, 3D, script, voice actors and more.

This is actually equivalent to a group drama. The screenwriters and directors have very strict skill requirements. If they are not well grasped, it is easy to cause the plot to be scattered and have no focus, or some characters are reduced to tool people, and their personalities are unpredictable with the plot.

Of course, Xu Rui doesn’t need to worry about this, because there is actually an animation that portrays the industry while also portraying many attractive characters. He only needs to make certain localization modifications to improve it.

The scripts of the first three episodes were released soon, and Xu Rui spent almost half of the Spring Festival holiday revising the scripts and thinking about storyboarding.

Back in Ningjiang, the work suddenly increased.

"Boss, this ecological niche setting should be fine."

The design department worked overtime around the Spring Festival to design the entire ecological structure of "Monster Hunter".

This is not just the design of monsters. In addition to large monsters, there are also small monsters, plants, and terrain. These are a whole and are inseparable.

For example, the map of Ancient Tree Forest has more than a dozen areas. When players walk out of the initial camp, what they see is a plain, where some herbivorous creatures and low shrubs live, and there are rivers and shoals.

Going forward, after entering the dense forest with a higher terrain, you can see small carnivores, and some large monsters in a low ecological niche also live here. In humid places, mushrooms grow, and you can see some mushroom-eating animals Herbivore.

The closer to the center of the map, the higher the altitude, and the monsters that appear become more and more powerful. Herbivores gradually disappear and are replaced by carnivores, and some rare plants also begin to appear.

Located at the top of the ancient tree is the fire dragon's lair, which is the top of the forest ecological niche of the ancient tree.

In addition, the design team also designed the weather and time. Day and night, dawn and dusk, the corresponding scenery is different, and even the haunting of monsters is related to these, and the storm in the ancient tree forest, in the bottom area What I felt was just ordinary heavy rain, but at the top, I was able to face the thunder directly, which was quite impactful.

The entire map is well-structured, with plants, animals, and terrain forming a complete ecological structure. Even if it is said that this place really exists in a corner of the world, people will probably be convinced.

Outside the ancient tree forest, there is a wasteland with a large desert area composed of ant nests as the main body. The land coral highland that was once an ocean is located below the land coral highland. It is formed by the accumulation of monster corpses and is full of harmful gas miasma. Valley of the Dragons, and Dragon Crystallization Fields, full of ancient dragons, with lava fields.

At present, according to Xu Rui and others' initial ideas, these five maps are planned.

Of course, the design department has a lot of ideas, some of which cannot be adopted into the existing maps, and some really good ideas are not abandoned, but collected for future use.

For example, the volcanic lava terrain corresponding to the land of dragon crystallization naturally has snow mountain and ice field terrain, and some people think that some areas with mixed terrain can be designed, but due to the production cycle, these designs are temporarily frozen and reserved for future DLC.

After confirming the design of the map, Xu Rui nodded slightly.

"It's pretty good, we can move on to the next part of the production."

After the design is basically completed, it is the design of the artists and the construction of the underlying code. This process will last for several months, which is considered to be a part of the production that takes a long time.

For art design, Holofer will check the whole process. The design of monsters generally starts from three aspects, monsters that exist in reality, fictional monsters in imagination, and monsters that represent natural forces.

For example, the mud ichthyosaur that appeared in the wasteland was inspired by the loach, and can move freely in the water and mud, while the fire dragon is more like the evil dragon in western mythology. As for the ancient dragon monsters that appear in the late game, most of them are The forces that can control nature, such as storms and thunder, are the embodiment of nature.

Due to the experience of many previous games, the art design led by Holofer is based on a relatively realistic style of painting, with many rough elements, scales, hair, and ferocious monsters, which constitute the main art style of "Monster Hunter". .

While the game department is working intensively, there is another group that is doing something completely unrelated to "Monster Hunter".

Ningjiang Beishan is located near the city center. Beishan is composed of the main peak and several secondary peaks. It is located on the top of the main peak. It is not a scenic spot, but an observatory.

Beishan Observatory is one of the most famous observatories in China. Five years ago, Beishan Observatory discovered a brand new comet and named it, which made it widely known before ordinary people.

The person in charge of the observatory is Dr. Chen, who graduated from Ningjiang University majoring in astrophysics. He is just forty this year and is still very young.

In February, just after the Lantern Festival, Dr. Chen drove to the observatory as usual to prepare for work.

Although the work of the observatory is to look at the stars, it is not just to look at the stars. The research institute usually has some topics. For the topics, each person in the research group will get a certain amount of time to use the astronomical telescope to observe the universe. In addition, calendars such as the nautical almanac also require the observation support of the observatory.

Even when there is no time for research by the research group, the various astronomical telescopes in the observatory still need to conduct routine observations of celestial bodies such as the sun.

Simple but extraordinary, this is the definition of Dr. Chen's work.

After greeting a few students, Dr. Chen routinely checked the data recorded last night, and received a call just halfway through.

"Um?"

The caller was the deputy dean of the astrophysics major of Ningjiang University and Dr. Chen's doctoral supervisor.

"Xiao Chen, is your observatory busy with work recently?"

The vice president exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then stated his purpose.

"It's like this. I have a project here that needs the support of the observatory. See if you can help me pick it up."

"What project?"

Dr. Chen couldn't figure it out. If it was a general graduate project, there was no need for the vice president to call in person. It sounded more like some other project.

"Well, it's filming."

Hearing the vice president's words, Dr. Chen was even more confused.