Make a Team

First of all, Wanxuan Liu asked me to make a cel-shading project like <Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse>. I’m also a huge fan of it, so we quickly decide to from a team of makeing a cel-shading video. Because cel-shading is a extremely new and challenging pipeline of animation production. So except us our team urgently needs experienced people who are familiar with 3D animation and 2D effects. Guanze Wu he is suitable for this, he is experienced enough and full of responsibility he will be in charge of modeling, rigging , shading and rendering with me. Furthermore we also invite Ziyin Wang to join us, he is a very good animator he will be in charge of animating. Unfortunatly we haven’t a 2D animation student to paint some 2D effects, we will continue work on it.

Project

Our project is to make a cel shading near-future sci-fi animation short film. Cel shading is a type of non-PBR rendering, which can be also called toon shading. It uses less shading color instead of a shade gradient or tints and shades in 3D production to flatten the animation graphics and simulate the feeling of 2D animation.

This week our group had several meetings discussing about our story draft and tasks for each team member. Everyone in our team wrote a short story based on the near-future scifi background. We discuss each story and finally choose one as our story draft. We then redesigned part of this story and then polished the logic and plot inside of it.

In brief, our story is: In a near-future, robot is widely used in people’s daily life. A computer virus explosion lead to a chaotic, which strained the relationship between the oversensitive protagonist and his suspected robot. A misunderstanding drives the protagonist to fight with his suspected robot, and died accidentally in this fighting. The story finally shows that the robot is not affected by the virus at all.

My responsibilities

In this project I will mainly be in charge in modeling, shading and rendering.

And I think our team is very reasonable of this project especially for this rarely done video.