There are already a lot of related articles on “FLCL Progressive” Anitama, and I won’t introduce them too much. The fifth episode of this work was produced by SIGNAL.MD, a studio owned by IG. .
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From the left to the right, the producer is the history of the book, and the painting is supervised by the end of the Ze, and the production is carried out in the temple. .
The fifth words of supervision, and at the same time responsible for the sub-mirror performance painting supervision, the end of the painting process of the whole digital painting, that is to say, all the painting links in this episode including the split mirror are completed on the computer, one In the middle of the link, only the card bag and the law table need to be passed. The number of paintings in one episode reaches 7,500, but the card bag and the law table are piled up together to fill a carton. The audience who saw the fifth words must have felt the heterogeneity of this episode. The lines of the characters have thickness changes. They are not clean and neat lines of ordinary animation. They are very hand-painted. This is because the whole digital painting can be realized. . .
Subvert the past production process.
Traditional animation is divided into original painting, animation, and coloring (Shishang). The animation is responsible for drawing the lines of the original painting and cutting, and then coloring. In this episode, the link of the animation line is completely removed, the coloring personnel directly color the digital original painting, and the animation personnel only need to do the cutting, thus saving time. .
And 90% of the animations are handled internally by the company, and the rest is also responsible for the digital painting team in Japan. Each part has a supervision of painting supervision, and the final rush is not reworked. Case. In addition, there are cases where the painter directly colors the lens, that is, the original painting directly makes the final picture. At the same time, painting is responsible for coloring and can also increase part of the income. Because this is the first such attempt in Japan, Izawa feels that the way to improve the process while trying to improve the process is a bit close to personal animation. .
The purpose of animated lines in traditional processes is to close the lines for easy coloring. However, because this is a job in the company, and there are many young people who can quickly get started with new software and new processes, I tried the coloring method of unclosed lines and preserved the taste of the original lines. SIGNAL.MD mainly uses TVP (TVPaint Animation) as the painting software. .
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The green law in the picture above is a card in the card pocket, and the actual painting materials are transmitted by electronic data. .
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Layout. .
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A correction is made. .
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Original painting, because the binarized line is used directly, it can be directly colored. .
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The basic color prevents the background from passing through the character layer. .
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The original painting is colored. .
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Original painting + coloring of the original painting. .
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The color of the animation, then rewrite the original painting number to the number of the animation, such as the eyebrows and then modify the color. .
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Modify the finished painting to the positive color. .
The painting tools used by the end are Wacom Cintiq Pro 16, other original paintings with Cintiq13 and tablet. The original painting from paper to digital is more likely to use a pen display that can see the lines directly. Young people who are painting on the tablet from the beginning may continue to use the tablet. One of the advantages of the tablet is that the picture is not blocked by the hand of the pen, and the line is more free. The size of the painting must be uniform, using A4 size, 1080P, 188dpi, layout and coloring must also be unified to prevent jaggedness in uniform resolution. .
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Brush icons and settings for uniform lines. .
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Because the lines of the fifth episode are thicker than the other episodes, the character design of the fifth episode has been specially designed to simplify some details. In some places, two lines are combined into one line. .
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In order to preserve the original line, a lot of comments have been made for coloring. .
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These shot is because the character is still in the positive film, so the layout is directly colored, which is a direct jump three steps, which is a typical shot of the original painting of this episode. .
Introduction of artificial intelligence
The production of this episode is also attended by two AIs, namely, the time of the season, the original buried (sister, responsible for the cut) and the time of the original written (the younger, responsible for the line), the character design is responsible for the mystery animation team, which is Jicheng Steel, Jicheng Steel was responsible for the two-minute production of the film. .
Shi Jiuyuan is an AI developed by DWANGO. The goal is to be able to use it in ordinary commercial animations. Of course, this episode is not a typical commercial animation, but in order to try AI, I specially selected some shots for AI. However, the part that AI can do is still very few, it must be manually corrected, and the artificial part is not convenient. The final time of the end of the experiment, the time saved is basically equal to the time spent, let the AI do it or not. Maybe, but he agrees with this direction and hopes to help with this AI project. .
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The left side is the original painting, the middle is the line drawn by the time, and the right side is the artificial correction. Write the notes written in the original painting. It is difficult for the final evaluation glasses to directly obtain the desired effect, and correction must be made. .
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The time of the season was buried as a mid-cut of the ground collapsed part. .
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The season was originally buried in the middle of the smoke that was raised in the middle. Both parts are relatively unimportant parts, and there are some corrections more or less. For the time being, they can only be used in these parts with large fault tolerance. .
Automatic line drawing AI has been a topic frequently mentioned a few years ago, but the evolution of AI itself requires a lot of on-site production experience and deep learning, and mature AI may appear in the near future. If the simple but time-consuming part of the animation process can be done by AI, it can save a lot of time in creation, which is a great boon for the industry. .
References .
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- 原画・動画・仕上げの垣根を越えデジタル作画ならではの表現で描く、劇場版『フリクリ プログレ』
- ドワンゴのAI技術でアニメーション制作を支援へ、劇場版『フリクリ プログレ』とCM『すすめ、カロリーナ。』の一部で使用
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