Master VA said the 32nd issue

You are learning animation.

Do you know how to organize your thoughts and collect inspiration?

Do you know how to make sketch books more brilliant?

In this issue, Master VA said

Take you into the animation sketch book thinking development record

It's not just about sprinting to a prestigious school.

It is also the inspiration for future design.

Add this stepping stone.

Animation design

The sketch book

1. What is a sketch book?

If you want to go to the top overseas art and design colleges for further study, you must have a very creative portfolio and sketch book, which accounts for 80%-90% of whether you can successfully get the offer, so it is extremely important.

Sketchbook can show your creativity and style, which is the interviewer's first impression of you. The portfolio shows your character, achievements, imagination and talent.

Even if you don't go abroad, every designer or artist should have his own sketch book.

Sketch is a visual diary, as a concentrated display of visual ability, recording past experiences and accumulation, showing your inner thoughts, and more importantly, showing your visual imagination confidently.

Total? knot

? This is your visual diary.

? Recorded your achievements.

? Expressed your personality

? Proved your ability.

? Show the inspiration route of the work

2.Sketchbook's painting tools?

Black Gou Xianbi or stylus is a very common painting tool.

Black and white paintings with sharp edges and beautiful lines ▲

In addition, interested students may find that many manuscripts designed by characters are painted with colored lead. Compared with pencils, colored lead is actually more likely to show a three-dimensional sense and a sense of hierarchy, which also lays the foundation for the whole work.

Draw with a red pencil ▲

Draw with a blue pencil ▲

There are many choices when coloring, such as colored lead, marker, watercolor ... each tool has its own characteristics, and everyone can use it flexibly according to the characteristics of each tool.

Colored lead and pencil have a sense of lines when used, so it is easy to reflect the texture of hair when drawing hair.

Markers and watercolors are transparent and clean, and can be kept clean when colors are stacked, which is easy to reflect the sense of hierarchy.

People who paint with colored lead ▲

Words marked with strokes ▲

With watercolor auxiliary coloring, it looks very clean and transparent ▲

Total? knot

? Black Gou Xianbi, stylus.

? Colored lead and pencils

? Markers and watercolors

3. How to create a sketch book?

TIPS 1 unique function

Character design is an important part of animation design. The most impressive thing about an excellent animation is its unique and individual characters. Disney Princess is the best example. When designing these characters, the author endowed them with recognizable features, which made them stand out among many animation works of the same type.

The design of a character needs to consider many things, such as gender, age, height and figure, hairstyle and so on. At the beginning, there may be problems in the control of main functions.

Xiao V suggests that you try to "animate" the characters in real life to practice your control of important features.

Tip 2 fictional scene

The background of an animation often doesn't happen in real life, so the scene of a story is often not the same as that in real life, and designers need to design it according to the place where the story takes place. As the story develops and the characters change, the scene will also change.

For example, in the castle in Beauty and the Beast, the previous curse cast a layer of darkness on the castle, but after the curse was lifted, the castle returned to its original beauty.

Xiao V thinks that sketching will be a good choice, which can help everyone to provide inspiration when designing daily scenes. You can refer to previous works and copy some unique settings.

Tip 3 Coherence and Freeze-Frame

Animation animation is "moving" in the final analysis. Then, before you really start studying in college, you should know how the animators "move".

Some basic action freeze frames ▲

The principle of animation actually depends on the visual residue of human eyes. Break an action into many pictures, shorten the interval between two pictures to a certain extent when playing, and the human eye will recognize that they are coherent. Animation design is to decompose each picture and draw it as short as 0. A few seconds. Of course, the animation technology is very mature now. With 3D animation technology, painters don't need to dig frame by frame, but these basic principles still need to be mastered.

Bring in the lens of the character painting when designing the action ▲

In terms of character movements, you can practice the freeze-frame of limb changes during movements. This exercise requires everyone's observation, and this freeze-frame captures subtle changes. You can refer to the actions in many action movies (because the action range will be relatively large) to practice freeze-frame.

Props used in stop-motion animation

Each rabbit corresponds to a mirror ▲

Then the specific operation.

What are the practical tricks?

Master VA said that the 32 nd issue

Animation design? special subject

? # About the lecture?

1. The Importance of Sketch in Animation Works

Most British and American universities hope to see the diversity of students' abilities through sketches;

Can quickly understand the overall style characteristics of students, whether the school needs talents.

2. The main differences between British and American sketches

Britain pays more attention to process and thinking;

America pays more attention to the expression of technology and tension.

3. How to make your own sketch book

Try to use a variety of materials, such as watercolor, colored lead, acrylic marking or a variety of techniques;

Diversity of content;

The content is closer to one's own life and let the school know the true self.

Share the introduction of the tutor.

? Video/audio

Teacher Hu

college of art

University? Animation MFA

? 20 16 university teaching assistant of academy of fine arts

? 20 12-20 18 master craftsman (indie game development) animator/conceptual design

Animation students provide:

california institute of the arts

rhode island school of design

University of southern California

Art center college of design, USA.

London college of art

teesside university

etc

Registration process

Master VA said that the 32 nd issue

# Speech time

2020/1112 (evening)

19:00—20:00

? # Speech location?

Online real-time sharing

? # Registration method?

Wa yi Shu jiao Yu

Online sharing of animation design themes

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