"What you see now is the production project team of the cartoon "Age of War", and the employees you see who are busy are all members of the project team.

As you know, the first part of our "Age of War" has been updated for three seasons and thirty-six episodes, so the work of the first part of the project team has come to an end and is currently being revised.

So, it's hard for everyone to see it when it's busy today.

However, in order to show you the usual work of our project team. As for the members of the project team, they will simulate some of the usual work content and show it to everyone.

In fact, this content is not for you to play, it is also the work of our project team.

Although all three seasons of our first part have ended, it does not mean that the work of our project team has stopped.

Because the production project for the third season of the second part of "Age of War" has already begun, but we are in the preparation stage.

Because of the need for confidentiality, we can't show you the script, I can only think that the script for the second part and three seasons has been created, and the character design and storyboard are already underway. ”

As she spoke, Fan Xiaoya led everyone to a small office area with eight or nine desks. Then he said to the crowd:

"This is our storyboard creation team, and their task is to draw the storyboard design, character design, scenery, props and other original art design drafts needed for the later production of the film.

This work is very important, and it is directly related to the subsequent production of animation. ”

Isn't there already a character set for the first part of the three seasons, why do you have to redraw it? Some book fans looked at the characters drawn by the employees, and then interrupted Fan Xiaoya's words and asked.

Fan Xiaoya was naturally a little unhappy with this rude and sudden interruption, but she still explained with a smile: "The characters of our cartoons are not eternal, they also change with the development of the environment and the story, as well as the loss of time.

The simplest example is that the characters look different at different ages. And the environment is different, the appearance will be different, such as the cotton clothes worn in winter, the T-shirts worn in summer, and so on.

Only such a change can make the content of the whole film rich and not dull. ”

Seeing that the book fan no longer asked questions, Fan Xiaoya continued to lead them to introduce: "The drawn storyboard is to be handed over to the director of the animation to review repeatedly, and the rhythm and shots of the whole film must be controlled, so as to present you with more frequent shots and storylines."

The drawn characters, scenes and props are reviewed and approved before entering the following model making process.

The characters, scenes, and props you see in the cartoon are all modeled using 3D software. Although we have created countless character models and scene props in the production of the first part of the three seasons.

But the new storyline means different scenes, different props, and new character quests, as well as changes in the original characters.

Therefore, the model production part is the largest production team in the whole project team, and they have to create the required model within the limited time.

Because the next department, the animation production team, is already waiting there, and they need the models created by the model making team to make animations, which is called K animation in the industry.

Although we already have our own 3D motion capture system, there are still a lot of actions that the actors can't do and require animators to K frame by frame.

In this, for example, there are special actions such as flying, fighting, tumbling and jumping, all of which need to be created by animators frame by frame, so that you have the cool cartoon pictures you see. ”

Everybody, please. Fan Xiaoya beckoned, and then introduced to everyone: "After these animations are K, this will need to be rendered and composited." Render and synthesize countless K-out animation clips, and finally become a finished film.

The finished film here is in quotation marks, because he is just a plain film with only pictures, no sound, no soundtrack, and no special effects.

The next step is to add special effects to the production, such as explosions, guns, magic and other gorgeous effects that you see are all made of special effects.

Then there's the dubbing, the soundtrack, the foley, and the sound added to the cartoon. Finally, after compositing and editing and rendering into a film, it is the animation we see. ”

Speaking of this, Fan Xiaoya clapped her hands and beckoned everyone to gather: "In order to let everyone feel more intuitively how these model scenes are rendered into the pictures we see, we specially take you to see our rendering farm today."

This render farm is the largest department in the entire company, and it is usually closed to the public. Today is a special case for you to thank you for your support of Zhige and our company's cartoons.

Come with me, our render farm is set up in a special place. ”

Saying that, Fan Xiaoya led everyone to a small building with only one floor in the company park, and to everyone's surprise, there were a few computers in this building, but there was nothing else.

And there is actually an elevator in the room, which makes everyone curious.

Fan Xiaoya saw everyone's curious appearance, and then introduced with a smile: "That's right, this is our rendering farm, as everyone guessed, the real rendering farm is underground."

This was originally the three-defense facility of the old factory, and below it was a huge air-raid shelter. To make the most of this space, we installed the render farm and the company's servers in the dugout below.

It's not because we don't have space or to pick on the door, but because the bomb shelter below has a unique advantage. And what we value most is its safety, heat retention and constant temperature.

Needless to say, there is no need to talk about security, so much equipment must be placed in a relatively safe place, and this air-raid shelter has only one passage in and out, which can be said to be very safe.

The next step is heat retention and thermostat, and the temperature we maintain here is not high temperature, but low temperature. As we all know, computers are afraid of high temperatures and not low temperatures, and high temperatures will affect the performance of computers.

Therefore, I think the special effects movie "Ah Vanda" that we know is rendered in the rendering server room established in Antarctica.

The reason why it took so much effort to build the render server room in Antarctica was to borrow the natural extremely low temperature of Antarctica to cool down the render server.

The terrain bomb shelter we are in, although it cannot be cooled, it has good thermal insulation performance, which can keep the cold air compressed by the air conditioner indoors and not lose it, so as to cool the equipment. ”