What is an animated mirror? A split mirror is mentioned in the cartoon, but I don't know what it is.

Storyboards are also called storyboards. Refers to movies, animations, TV series, advertisements, music videos and other image media. Before actual shooting or drawing, the composition of images is illustrated by charts, and the continuous images are decomposed as a unit of mirror transmission, and the mode, duration, dialogue and special effects of mirror transmission are marked.

Use the movie Split Mirror to explain how the 1 scene will be formed. What percentage of characters and other writings are included in the camera to make a composition? What actions have you done? From which angle the camera should be cut in or taken out, how the camera itself moves, how long it takes to record, and so on.

Comic splitting is an important work in the drafting stage, including allocating pages and customizing the frame division within each page. Segmentation is the basic skill of comics, and it is also the closest connection between contemporary comics and traditional comics. Early cartoons were basically strictly divided into squares, and most of them were rectangular squares. Each square can be understood as a small page or a shot in a movie, so it is called a "split mirror". The division of contemporary comics is quite free. Basically, other restrictions can be broken except for reading convenience. For the needs of the plot, it is very common to make the picture out of line or even a big picture with two pages. Regardless of whether it is out of line or not, the preliminary layout of the picture is generally designed and completed in the split-mirror stage.

Comic split mirror

The word "split mirror" comes from movies, and we can also call it "framing" in comics.

As we all know, comics include single comics, four-grid comics and comic books.

There are also interactive comics being developed now, and the "split mirror" specially used in comics.

It plays the role of "interpreter" in the production of comics, aiming to make the events in comics:

1- "order of appearance"

2- "Observation Angle"

3-"Things (things) are related to things (things)"

4- "Rhythm and Emotion"

5- "Virtual and Real"

Read it and edit it into the cartoon we see.

It's like writing grammar in an article, editing some words into rules that adults can understand.

It sometimes affects readers' emotions and reactions when reading articles. On the contrary,

The split mirror of comics aims to formulate a reading rule and use this rule to interpret events and objects.

An author with a clear concept of split mirror can control the feeling of his works to readers at will.

Even if it is a boring story, it can be interpreted with wonderful lens-splitting skills.

So, what's the difference between a cartoon mirror and a movie mirror?

Movies and comics have their own performance characteristics. Movies use continuous images and sounds, while comics use images and words.

I remember Mr. Kaohsiung, the author of The Little Fisherman with Genius, told me:

Images have the characteristics of scene description and characters have the characteristics of psychological description, and the combination of the two is comics.

I want to add here that when people look at an image, they will "think" about the meaning behind it.

When reading words, you will also "think" about the images stacked by their words. Comics combine the two,

It means "omit thinking", that is to say, you don't need to move your head when reading comics, which is its biggest feature.

It looks simple on the surface, but in fact, reading comics has no meaning of thinking.

Drawing cartoons requires extreme thinking. A comic creator must explain the five points I described in the last paragraph very clearly.

Because once there is something unclear, the reader must think, and once the reader begins to think, the reading of this cartoon.

Will cause pause, the reader's mood will be interrupted, in order to avoid this situation,

The creator must be proficient in the skill of splitting the mirror.

Although the real origin of comics is in Europe, (some people say that China's erotic paintings should be the ancestor of comics, which have the characteristics of words and pictures and even continuity ... but let's put it aside first. So far, the most exquisite and complicated concept of split mirror is Japanese manga. Its rapid development in the split mirror occurred in the improvement of comics by comic genius Osamu Tezuka. At present, its comic book publishing house still has more possibilities for professionals to constantly study comic performance, but its basic concept remains unchanged. A senior editor told me before that comic strip can be divided into four projects:

1- continuity; 2- rhythm; 3- sensibility; 4- dramatic.

I must say, there is nothing more stupid than this division. It's nonsense to draw cartoons with continuity.

Dramatic can't be controlled by splitting the mirror, so focus on rhythm and emotion:

Rhythm is the relative time in comics. As we all know, each grid in a cartoon symbolizes a unit time.

The more squares an event uses, the longer it takes (like slow motion).

On the other hand, if fewer squares mean faster, this is a mathematical problem, which is not difficult to understand. What about emotional?

To put it bluntly, it is a question of enlargement or reduction. Pulling the camera in will create a sense of oppression.

Basically, close-ups can show emotional tension, and the prospect is more objective.

However, if you only express your emotions in this way, it will be boring.

So, back to our theme, which is the five items I described in the first paragraph:

The sequence of occurrence; Observation angle; The relationship between things; Rhythm and mood; Virtual and real.

For beginners, this chapter will delete the last two items and discuss the first three topics respectively:

1- order of appearance:

Text:

A high school girl woke up early in the morning and found herself late. She dressed in a panic and ran to the station.

I found that the school bus had left, and I didn't know what to do. A handsome classmate on a motorcycle saw her.

Offered to send her to school.

(We changed this story to:)

A female high school student was walking in the street, and a handsome guy came by bike and asked her why.

The female high school student explained all kinds of lateness today, and the handsome guy offered to drive her to school.

(Replace the story with:)

Female high school students sit behind a handsome boy's motorcycle. From their conversation, we can see.

I heard that female high school students were late and missed the school bus.

Discussion:

In the first order, the focus of the story falls on female high school students; The second sequence,

The same story focuses on the encounter between the hero and heroine; In the third sequence,

The focus has become the atmosphere of getting along.

The order of events often determines their importance. When drawing a mirror,

Arranging the sequence of events to be described is also a lesson.

2- Observation Angle:

Text:

A high school girl woke up early in the morning and found herself late.

She dressed in a panic and ran to the station, only to find that the school bus had left.

Wondering what to do, she saw a handsome classmate riding a motorcycle and offered to send her to school.

(We changed this story to:)

Female high school students ran to the station in a panic and found that the school bus had left, when another handsome boy rode by.

Seeing this strange girl complaining that she was late, he went over curiously and offered to drive her to school.

(Replace the story with:)

High school girls looked at him in surprise when they saw the handsome boy passing by, and the handsome boy stopped to see her.

Soon after they looked at each other, the handsome boy asked the female high school students why they were depressed. After explaining the reasons for being late,

The handsome boy offered to drive her to school.

Discussion:

The focus of the first angle is female high school students;

The second angle adds the point of view of the handsome guy in the second half;

The third angle blurs the position, and it can be said that there is no point of view.

3. Things (things) are related to things (things).

Text:

A high school girl woke up early in the morning and found herself late. She dressed in a panic and ran to the station.

I found that the school bus had left, and I didn't know what to do. A handsome classmate on a motorcycle saw her.

Offered to send her to school.

(We changed this story to:)

The female high school student was late. She missed the school bus. At this moment, she saw a handsome boy coming by bike.

When I saw her, I called a girl's name, only to find that I mistook her for someone else. When the handsome guy is disappointed,

I am also willing to drive a female high school student to school. The female high school student guessed that the handsome guy was dumped by a girl.

(Replace the story with:)

A handsome boy was on his way to school when he saw a girl in uniform wandering in the street.

He accosted the girl and got along well with her. They are going to play truant and chat while riding motorcycles.

But he rode to the school gate before he knew it. The handsome boy was a little flustered, but the girl smiled and thanked him.

Walking into the school, I left a handsome boy inexplicably.

Discussion:

In the first incident, "contact" only lies in the accidental meeting of two people;

In the second incident, "contact" implies that there is another girl between them;

In the third incident, the "connection" is vague, leaving people with a sense of mystery.

In cartoons, we often ask characters to do this and that, but we often ignore them. Why do they do these things?

What does what they do have to do with the story?

After this conceptual problem is first clarified, let's take a look at the manifestations of the split mirror:

1. lens; 2. Reading order; 3. layout.

1 lens:

A famous comic editor in Hong Kong wrote a book, and he divided the lens into:

Bird's-eye lens/head-up lens/mouse lens/fisheye lens/wide field of vision/

Foreground/Middle/Close-up/Close-up, etc.

I really can't figure out why he wrote so much nonsense besides paying the manuscript fee.

Here we only need to focus on two kinds of shots: "close-up" and "panorama".

Close-ups are used to describe an object clearly and carefully.

Maybe it's the expression of the character, maybe it's the timer on the time bomb, and this object can't be ignored in the story.

We draw with close-ups. Panorama is used to explain the situation, who is on whom and where,

What are they doing? We use a panoramic view, which means we put all the objects in the camera.

It can let readers know the actual connection, function and position of this pile of objects in the present story.

2- Reading order:

Japanese and desktop comics are viewed from right to left. If two characters appear in a grid,

The characters you want the reader to see first must be placed on the right, and then the characters you want the reader to see must be placed on the left.

The order of the dialogue should also be this order. Because of this directionality, if a character "runs into" the scene,

We draw him running from left to right, which is opposite to the reader's reading direction and can produce the feeling of "appearing";

On the other hand, if the character is "escaping" from the scene, it is drawn from right to left.

So the reader will move in his direction.

3- Layout:

The connection between the past and the present is only to establish a reading rule. Excuse me, an exciting photo,

The appearance or explosion scene of new characters; Bear, tell the reader,

What was the scene of that character just now? Turn, foreshadowing, a character suddenly saw something and his face changed greatly.

Or a new shadow, let readers look forward to seeing the truth; Then, let's figure things out together,

Let readers be satisfied.

The above is the practice direction for beginners of split mirror. Based on these skills,

If you want to further study high-order lenses in the future, you will be like a duck to water.

In addition to understanding the logic and laws of the split mirror,

The most important thing is to practice and invite friends to read their works.

Listen carefully to other people's opinions and regard it as the next creative experience.

When these skills are familiar, you can freely change more lively expressions.

I copied it, hoping it will help you.