Category: Design For Animation

In my first semester, for my 1500 critical paper, I chose to study the innovative technology and use of visual effects behind the DreamWorks How to Train Your Dragon films.

This week’s lecture explained the direction the research report focuses on, its impact on readers and its purpose, which should be matched with my future career plan. In addition, each part of the report is described in detail to help us complete the research report.

In this week’s lecture, we had a group discussion on the topic of the paper. In the course of our communication, we learned the need for more concrete examples and sources that could explain the techniques of the article itself. I want to analyze the special effects technology and camera language of the film itself, and summarize the behind-the-scenes production of the DreamWorks Pictures films.

The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’

Horness Roe. A. (2013) Animated Documentary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

The main function of documentary is to restore what happened in reality to the film and television, usually using the video or pictures recorded at that time to prove its authenticity. So documentaries are realistic.

Israeli director Ari Forman’s Waltz with Bashir was nominated for best International Feature film at the 2009 Academy

Awards. The director tried to reconstruct through dialogue his memories of friends and other veterans of the Israeli

army during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Both chat and wartime memories are animated using stylized paper-cutting

techniques, which are often confused with dynamic rotography.

The miracle of formative abstraction.

They used an analog computer developed by his brother John – a World War II residual ballistic computer based on gear drives – to move multilayer hand-drawn cels frame by frame. Everything was done by hand and took 10 years.

Particles in the irregular regularity of the law to show a different from the ordinary beauty. The religious music also brings the work, which took 10 years to complete, to life.

Formal Elements：Symmetry of cross，Out of order，Life force，Religiosity.

8 Story arc

1.Stasis:Vittorio Basile is a wealthy scientist and shipowner; One of his ships, the Megaride, is a high-tech ship that records everything happening inside and displays it as a hologram. Basile, who has a 3-year-old daughter Mia, will marry Angelica, the mother of five daughters.

2.Trigger:On the wedding day, an ambitious drug Lord and Angelica’s secret lover, Salvatore Lo Giusto, kills Basile.

3.Quest:Mia becomes aphonous after this shock and is left under the protection of her stepmother Angelica, since Mia is the only heir of the Megaride and, according to Lo Giusto’s plan, she is going to sign after her 18th birthday a contract that will give all her inheritance to Lo Giusto.

4.Surprise:Primo Gemito, formerly Basile’s bodyguard, tries to find evidence to frame Lo Giusto, Primo is saved by Mia, who was under his protection when she was a baby and they both recognize each other even though 15 years have passed. Thanks to Mia, Primo finds all the evidence he needs.

5.Critical choice:Primo wants to bring Mia away from the Megaride, but she refuses to leave her father’s ship.

6.Climax:Lo Giusto confesses that he has never loved Angelica and he doesn’t want to marry her since she has grown very old and plans instead to marry Mia. At first Mia is flattered by this kindness, but before the ceremony she sees a hologram that shows the moment when Lo Giusto killed her father. Shattered, Mia escapes through the ducts chased by Lo Giusto’s henchmen.

7.Reversal:Primo is leading a group of police to arrest Lo Giusto, while Angelica understands that Lo Giusto wants to marry Mia instead of her. Angelica understands that none of this is Mia’s fault, but her own, for betraying Basile, the only man who ever truly loved her, and then letting Logiusto use her for his own purposes.

8.Resolution:Angelica set off the bomb on the boat. Primo and Mia manage to leave the ship just a second before the explosion, while Lo Giusto is left bleeding to die in one of the hallways.

Characters

• Mia Basile : The main character, a tragic childhood.
• Salvatore Lo Giusto :An ambitious drug Lord and Angelica’s lover, but he doesn’t love Angelica.
• Vittorio Basile :A good man with talent and strength, who planned to marry Angelica, was murdered.
• Angelica Carannante :A sad woman who fell in love with the wrong person, only to realize that Basile was the one who really loved her.
• Primo Gemito: Mia’s father’s bodyguard, 15 years of isolation and never gave up on the truth. Finally left the place with Mia.

The impact of artificial intelligence on the visual effects industry.

“Over the long-term, these technologies will radically change how content is created.”

Michael Smit, Ziva Dynamics

Over the past decade, 3D animation, simulation and rendering have achieved near-perfect fidelity for the viewer in terms of photo realism or art direction.
For a while, many of the most labor-intensive and repetitive tasks, such as matching movement, tracking, turning, compositing, and animation, were outsourced to cheaper foreign studios, but with recent advances in deep learning, many of these tasks can not only be fully automated, but can also be performed for free and very fast.

Keywords:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Augmented Reality
• Create & Produce
• Post Production & VFX
• Trends

References:

• Data & AI in Film Creation: https://picturethisconference.com/data-ai-in-film-creation
• A comprehensive guide to the state-of-art in how AI is transforming the visual effects (VFX) industry: https://rossdawson.com/futurist/implications-of-ai/comprehensive-guide-ai-artificial-intelligence-visual-effects-vfx/
• How AI is reinventing visual effects: https://www.ibc.org/create-and-produce/how-ai-is-reinventing-visual-effects/4060.article
• THE NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FRONTIER OF VFX: https://www.vfxvoice.com/the-new-artificial-intelligence-frontier-of-vfx/
• Netflix AI will eat VFX: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/netflix-ai-eat-vfx-dexter-davey/?fbclid=IwAR1yt7-WhL-bpQyxBO56iC4DnKXnAs9Kwxncfwb9Yi42OX8eOiyRWQJ1Lj8