1 Decide what kind of theme to do for FMP
2 Some researches on Chinese painting
3 Decide what kind of story to make
In my presentation, I explained in detail why I wanted to do such an animation. At the beginning, I intended to do some regular animation to tell a story, but I also wanted to do something that I had never done before, because I knew that I would rarely have the opportunity to do what I just wanted to do in my future work. So I’m going to challenge myself to make a 3D animation with ink style.
2 Some researches on Chinese painting
After determining that the topic should be based on Chinese style animation, I made a simple study on the types and characteristics of Chinese painting.
According to the subject matter of painting, traditional Chinese painting mainly includes landscape painting, flower and bird painting, and figure painting. The painting of Lushan Mountain by Gu Kaizhi in Jin Dynasty is a landscape painting, the painting of cold bird by Cui Bai is a flower and bird painting, and the painting of listening to Qin by song Huizong is a figure painting. According to the form of expression, traditional Chinese painting can be divided into freehand brushwork and fine brushwork. Fine brushwork pays attention to “work”, which needs a detailed outline and repeated rendering. It is relatively realistic and complicated. Freehand brushwork stresses “meaning”,
Because freehand brushwork style of ink painting is very difficult for 3Dl modeling, so I finally decided to make a fine brushwork style of ink 3D effect.
In this way, the object modeling is still its original shape, and the ink style is mainly reflected in the mapping ,lighting,and rendering effect
3 Decide what kind of story to make
Since I choose to make a Chinese-style animation, I hope the story of this animation is also very Chinese style. China likes to tell metaphorical stories. It doesn’t tell the theme of the story clearly, but let the audience experience the story by themselves.
There is a famous story about fishing in ancient China
Jiang Taigong is a popular name for Jiang Ziya, statesman and strategist.
As an adviser of King Wen of the Zhou State in ancient China, he, at the age of 80, helped the young King Wu overthrow the Shang Dynasty and establish the Zhou Dynasty.Jiang Ziya lived near the Weishui River about 3 000 years ago.
The area was the feudal estate of Count Ji Chang.
Jiang Ziya knew Ji Chang was very ambitious so he hoped to get Ji’s attention.He often went fishing at the Weishui River,but he would fish in an unusual way. He hung a straight fishhook, without bait, three feet above the water .
He often said to himself, “Fish，if you don’t want to live any more, come and swallow the hook yourself. ”
Soon his strange way of fishing was reported to Ji Chang.
Ji sent a soldier to fetch him.Jiang saw the soldier conning, but ignored him.
Jiang just went on with his fishing, and was saying to himself，“Fishing, fishing，no fish has been hooked. A shrimp is up to mischief. ”
The soldier reported this back to Ji Chang, who became more interested in Jiang.Ji sent an official to invite Jiang this time.But Jiang again ignored the invitation.He just carried on fishing，and was saying，“Fishing，fishing，the big fish has not been hooked. A small one is up to mischief”
Then Ji Chang realized Jiang may be a great talent so he went to invite Jiang himself and brought many generous gifts with him.Jiang saw his sincere desire so decided to work for him.Jiang helped Ji Chang and his son turn over the Shang Dynasty and establish the Zhou Dynasty.
Today, people use this old idiom to describe someone who willingly falls in a trap or does something regardless of the result
Another reason why I want to do this fishing story is that I have a wonderful experience with fishing. Before I came to England, I always dreamed of a big fish for a week. I don’t understand why. The day before I set out to England, I went to the lake to fish once. Again, I never really fished before. But on that day, a big fish got hooked, which was very big, with a weight of 5 kg. This fantastic experience has always impressed me deeply. I suddenly thought that since I was going to leave England after FMP, I wanted to make a final story about this fish.