Author: Chendi Zhao
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Interview with a animator in the Game Industry
I interviewed one of my former university classmates, who is now working in the marketing department of a game company in ShangHai. His main responsibility is creating short promotional animations for TikTok. Before our conversation, I only had a vague impression of what this kind of work involved, but hearing him describe his daily routine…
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Reflections on Interviewing a Storyboard artist
This week, I had the chance to interview my mentor from my undergrad school, who is still working as a professional storyboard artist. Talking with him after several years felt both familiar and eye-opening. When I was a student, I only had a basic understanding of what a storyboard artist actually did. However, this conversation…
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My future career plan
Lately, I have been thinking seriously about the direction of my future career, and I feel more certain than ever about the path I want to take. My goal is to pursue a PhD and use that experience as a foundation to become an animation director. This plan may sound ambitious, but it feels like…
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Self-reflect in simulated work experience with Xinyi Gu and Nina
During the two-week simulatied work, I participated in the preliminary art design, scene design and animation action design respectively. I had similar experience in undergrad school so I fit into this project very well. The first week of work was to design a scene and a poster within the scene. Concept design is in my…
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Unit 1 practice based research
Through different animation exercises in unite 1, I have more understanding of animation production. I think the most important thing is the flexible use of performance references. Performance references are very important for animation, and the accuracy of animation action bases on this to a large extent. However, over-reliance on the reference action will also…
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The application of traditional Chinese Beijing Opera movements in animation: A case study of the animated The Legend of Sealed Book.
The Legend of Sealed Book was created in 1983, as one of the pioneers of Chinese animated films, the director combines the movements of traditional Chinese Beijing Opera with those of animated characters to create novel effects. I’m going to give you two examples of fighting and emotion.In terms of fighting scenes, the film makes…
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