Chapter Twenty-Four: Schiff
"Ruby Rose and the Wolf of Shadows have tried to substitute the perspectives, but they always feel like something is missing, something that could be more appealing, something more eye-catching."
"What is it..."
"Opponent! An opponent who can make Ruby Rose a character who can fight smoothly and vividly, and who can bring out the charm of Rwby's combat style to the extreme! Yu Kamiya, who was sitting in the subway train, was so excited that he cheered for the answer he had found. The surrounding passengers saw that his face was about to move, and quietly moved their positions, for fear that Kamiya Yu would go crazy if he was not careful.
Last night he spent all his time in the space of consciousness on the design of the fight scenes in the "Red" chapter, for which he tried to transform himself into a slain shadow wolf pack or a little red riding hood slaughtering wolves, and designed and perfected the battle scenes from the perspective of all the animated characters in the "Red" chapter. I have to say that this process is extremely interesting, and the thrill of slaughtering wolves when Yu Kamiya is transformed into Little Red Riding Hood is much more refreshing than playing a computer game from the previous world, comparable to the so-called holographic sensory simulation type game.
The fighting visuals of "Red" have far surpassed the original, but Kamiya still has a faint sense of dissatisfaction, and he feels that the pursuit of perfection is lacking in the promotional film, an opponent who can compete with Ruby Rose instead of a wolf pack that has been slaughtered unilaterally, and the existence of this opponent is bound to sublimate the charm of "Rwby's" unique fighting style.
"With the 3D modeling capabilities of the modeling software MAYA, I should be able to create CG-level graphics that are no less than those of Final Fantasy: The Arrival of the Son, and the style of the Red chapter does not need to be modified, but it can be further optimized and refined. It is important to consider that the addition of a so-called adversary will inevitably increase the amplitude of the Red chapter, and the resulting changes will increase the modeling workload several times over. Kamiya pondered the feasibility of the idea he had just had.
"Final Fantasy: The Advent of the Holy Son" is a CG animated film produced by Square Enix in Japan in 2005, based on the game "Final Fantasy", the exquisite 3D picture quality was unparalleled at the time, and it is also a milestone work in the history of 3D animation.
But in any case, "Final Fantasy: The Coming of the Holy Son" only uses 3D modeling technology that was not very mature in 2006, and the 3D modeling software that Kamiya Yu intends to reproduce in this world is a backward product in the previous world, but it is a popular modeling software that dominates the entire 3D modeling industry around 2020, and the development of all aspects of functions is extremely mature. It is because the special modeling that cannot catch up with VR technology is gradually eliminated.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT THIS SOFTWARE ALSO SUPPORTS THE WIN7 SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN ABANDONED BY MICROSOFT AT THAT TIME, AND THE CURRENT WORLD COMPUTER SYSTEM WHERE YUU KAMIYA IS LOCATED HAPPENS TO BE WIN7, AND HIS LAPTOP THAT IS QUITE HIGH-END IN THE COMPUTER MARKET SHOULD BE ABLE TO BARELY RUN MAYA3D MODELING SOFTWARE.
"Damn, I'm too limited by the impression of the original work, and instead of making it a promotional film, I created it as a small animation, and the animation duration can be extended to more than 10 minutes, so that more content can be expressed!" The more I think about it, the more I feel that I can put this idea into practice, 3D animation is much easier to do than ordinary animation, and the most difficult thing is the modeling process, so the effort to extend the length of the animation is actually much less than expected.
"Excellent! So decide! After figuring this out, Yu Kamiya only felt that his spirit suddenly brightened, and he couldn't wait to rush home now and enter the consciousness space to verify his thoughts.
"Ding, this train has arrived at Uji Station in Kyoto Prefecture, please prepare to get off the train." The sweet voice of the flight attendant dispelled his impulse, and Yu Kamiya was depressed thinking that he was still on his way to work.
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It's early September, and the animation production of "Mr. Fantuan Superman" is nearing completion. And the general animation is almost finished at this time, and "Mr. Onigiri Superman" should end in November because it has two more episodes than other animations. As the second original artist, Kamiya Yuyuan did not work so hard as the original artist on the front line, and if he wanted to complete the original painting independently, he did not have that qualification, although now he has surpassed the average original artist in terms of original artist ability.
He now spends most of his time at work conceiving and perfecting the fight scene design of the "Red" chapter, and during this time, he has read a lot of movies and television works and action direction books in his consciousness space, and with the help of that knowledge, he can easily design Ruby Rose's combat style. You don't need to be too deliberate about the truth, what you need is a punch-to-flesh punch, the sound of guns that makes a man's blood boil, the swift and decisive movements, and the force design that makes Newton cry and faint in the toilet.
"Speaking of opponents, what kind of opponents are needed? The giant werewolf that I transformed into last night, that one is good, but it's not innovative enough. ”
"Boss design ・・・・・・ about wolf form" Yu Kamiya, sitting on the original painting table, pondered for a long time, and the original brush unconsciously depicted the image of a lone wolf on a blank piece of paper, while searching for the image of a wolf in his memory, such as film and television works or game novels. For the design of the shadow wolf pack, Yu Kamiya tried not to modify it, because this image is most in line with the setting of the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood".
"Gray wolf Schiff!" The name flashed across Kamiya's mind, and when the image of the giant gray wolf came to his mind, he felt his blood boiling, staring at the original drawing paper with burning eyes, and quickly painted the image he conceived on the original paper.
A lonely, graceful wolf, a loyal servant of the guardian of his master's tomb, the weapon it wields is neither sharp claws nor hideous fangs. It was a sword, a black iron greatsword that radiated divine brilliance in the moonlight. Yu Kamiya will never forget the CG he saw when he was playing the game, standing gracefully on top of the giant mausoleum and looking down on the earth with cold eyes, and when it jumped off the mausoleum, he bit the giant sword with his mouth to drive out all the enemies who wanted to desecrate the mausoleum.
This elegant giant wolf came out of a very famous work "Dark Souls", and Yu Kamiya died no less than ten times when he was playing this game level, so he was extremely impressed by this boss.
In the original film, Ruby Rose had an uncle she had never met, and the person she was paying tribute to in the promotional video was her dead grandmother. In order to conform to the setting of "Little Red Riding Hood", you can delete the uncle's scene, anyway, this poor man did not appear in the original work, and put the setting about the uncle on the grandmother. ”
"No, then Ruby Rose's reason for using the scythe is a bit difficult to arrange. Since the giant wolf Shiv uses a big sword, this big sword should naturally be passed down to her grandmother, which means that the weapon used by her grandmother must be a big sword. ”
"Forget it, just set it up further based on Ruby Rose's grandmother status. There won't be much of a scene when she's dead, the cause of death is a hero in a war, and the giant wolf Schiff has always played the role of guarding her, even though she is dead, he still intends to accompany her until the end of her life. ”
"But the wolf Shiv was polluted by miasma and degenerated, and Ruby Rose, who knew all this, planned to go to the mausoleum to let the wolf Shiv rest in peace while paying tribute to her grandmother!"
"Excellent! Now the problems of background, scene and opponent are all solved! Countless mixed thoughts eventually coalesced into a straight line, and when Yuu Kamiya's thoughts came together, the original painting he painted was completed in time.
A huge and hideous black wolf stood on the giant tombstone and looked down on everything with brutal and bloodthirsty scarlet eyes, and the black smoke of flowing water filled around it like a phanteur. In front of the tombstone, a giant black iron sword plunged straight into the ground, and the cold sword body covered with green vines slightly reflected the afterglow of the cool moon.