I really like martial arts scenes, so I chose the monkey stick method of Shaolin Kung Fu. The task is tough, which means I need a lot of time to challenge it.
My first project was from the geroge course. The story I wrote was about the metaphysical theme of a girl and a monster. It tells the story of a girl with amnesia who struggles to find her memories with the help of a mysterious monster. My story is inspired by some movies and anime. For example THE BFG, from which I got the idea of giants existing in the city. There’s also the emotion and interaction between the girl and King Kong in King Kong. Even in SPIRIT AWAY, where the protagonist accidentally enters the world of monsters from the real world, etc. These films and movies give me a lot of ideas and the basis for stories. In my animation, I usually like to add cinematic elements to my work. I think this is something that cannot be overlooked and is often a major factor in how good a piece of work is. AI is a good tool and a good partner for human beings. The premise is that it will not destroy humans. I used midjourney, which has become very popular recently, to generate some concept images, and through many attempts and filters, I picked a few that came close to what I imagined. The amazing thing is that they work really well and they are passable as art concepts.
As you can see the cover is a dinosaur, so for my next 9 weeks I’m going to make a short film about dinosaurs. The artwork is ai-generated by the way.
The reason I’m going to do it is probably this, dinosaurs are a widely popular subject, especially among children or young audiences. The nature of the plot of this little animation for project2 might be similar to tropes like There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip. So I will show the cruelty of inter-species competition and the law of the forest where the weak are the strongest in ancient times. I have analysed three difficulties in this project, the first of which is rigging, I have modelled and riged the Tyrannosaurus Rex and he seems to be working. I have left the crabs and raptor no rig . The second was animating the dinosaurs, as they don’t exist in real life at the moment,
so my references came back from previous films and TV shows. prehistoric planet and the classic movie Jurassic Park were good targets for me to learn from. 3. physics simulation, I felt it was necessary to add some effects to give a better visual effect. Sand collisions and seawater simulations were essential and I worked on these in ue5 rather than houdini because ue is more time efficient and convenient. Next it was time for ai ~ these images were generated in the style of a photographic artist, it looks more realistic and detailed. This is the scene I imagined, it is more like the environment of the earth in ancient times.