How are the scenes in anime set?

Some scenes are designed based on the original work, while others require framing.

The original work is a novel, and there will be special scripts and scene designs to transform the text into specific scenes.

The original work is a comic, because it already has storyboards, so what needs to be considered is more about scene optimization, such as how to make the architecture and background more detailed, how to color it, etc.

Things like Ghibli, which designs and draws at the same time, are in the realm of gods. They have extremely high requirements for original painters, scene designers, scripts, and even storyboard artists.

Let’s take Ghibli as an example. According to Studio Ghibli’s manuscript releases and interviews, a considerable number of scenes in the works are transformed from actual scenes.

For example, Yakushima, the filming location of "Princess Mononoke", has been clearly chosen as the filming location for several classic works by Hayao Miyazaki.

Yakushima is an island in Kyushu, Japan. It is located south of Kagoshima and has a warm climate. It is the place with the highest rainfall in Japan. It has dense vegetation, green mountains and forests, and is very quiet.

It’s like rubbing the scenery into a movie. Aerial view of Yakushima

Yakushima is a natural heritage reserve in Japan, which coincides with Princess Mononoke's theme of protecting nature.

Another example is the Sayama Hills in Saitama Totoro, the filming location of "My Neighbor Totoro". Later, Hayao Miyazaki granted permission to name it after Totoro, and established a fund to protect wild animals here.

The Sayama hills retain Japan’s most primitive and untapped natural resources. The silent mountains and forests are like a world in a fairy tale. There are also some places where the official has not given a clear answer on the filming location, such as Jiufen in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, where the photography team of "Spirited Away" was stationed.

The bustling snack street at night, Japanese-style ancient buildings, dim lights and beautiful lanterns. Comparison between the boiler room where Grandpa Boiler is and the real scene

Comparison of the interior of Yubaba’s house

No matter how you look at it, the original scene has been moved into the movie.

As for how to convert the real scene into a picture, this involves the composition process, which takes more than twenty frames every second, and the original painting of each frame will be recomposed based on the photos taken.

For example, the ancient castle building that Qianxun and his family passed before entering the world of gods is just a picture with a picture structure of side-light composition + chiaroscuro composition + bilateral perspective composition.

The knowledge that needs to be involved includes the hierarchical relationship of depth space composition, the basis of background design and script, division and expansion in parallel perspective, angled perspective, flat angle perspective, top perspective, bottom perspective, and oblique plane. Perspective, shadow perspective, film perspective, positive and negative space method, triangle composition method, plane composition method, S-shaped composition method, segmented composition method, etc. If the specific design process is shown in full, it will be no less than a professional book. scene design books.

After all the original paintings are painted by hand, Axure RP is used to process the background tones.

In addition, the style and position of windows, the style and angle of furniture, and the height and proportion of streets, trees, and grass must all be considered.

If there is no specific shooting location, the scene of the original light novel or comic needs to be reconstructed and optimized. After all, not all cartoonists can be like Tanaka Masashi, Hojo Tsukasa, Ogure Uito, and Mori Kaoru. , Ogiwara Kazuki, and Miura Kentaro are the same realists who arrange all the scenes and buildings clearly.

For a cartoonist like Teacher ONE who specializes in plots and storyboards, the complexity of scene reconstruction is unusually high.

The Chinese comics that have done well in recent years, such as "Big Fish and Begonia", although the plot is a bit bad, the quality of the pictures is really good. Of course, in terms of scene design, we provided the filming locations, and then outsourced the original paintings and scene design to Japan and South Korea.

The other Chinese comic classic "Qin Shi Mingyue" is much better. Regardless of the original painting, script or scene design, the core parts are almost all made by ourselves.