Category: Animation
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My Career Ambitions in Animation
When I think about my future career, my greatest ambition is not only to find a stable job, but also to build a creative path that truly belongs to me. My ideal future is to become a university teacher in animation and, at the same time, use the resources and academic environment of the university…
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Reflecting on My Career Plans After Graduation
As I approach graduation, I have started to think more seriously about my future career path. At this stage, I have three possible plans, but they are not equal in priority. My first choice is to continue my studies and apply for a PhD program, with the long-term goal of becoming a university lecturer in…
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Exploring New Career Possibilities Through 2D Effects Animation
Through working on my final animation project, I have gained a much clearer understanding of my own strengths and interests as an animator. Before this project, I mainly saw myself as someone who would focus on traditional character animation in the future. I was interested in acting, body movement, timing, and how to bring a…
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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…