The content of the third episode of "Songhai Idol is a Legend" returns to the practice and daily life of traditional idols, mixed with the name of the idol group, and finally a performance, and by the way, the awakening of serious idols Li Ai and others.

"Rotten Xiuxiu" has become the name of this zombie girl idol group, which makes people feel indescribably weird.

For Han Qingwen, although the story of this episode inherits the previous nonsense, the real focus is on the final performance.

When he saw seven zombie girls dancing in the shadow of the abandoned factory chimneys on the side of the empty road, Han Qingwen almost screamed in surprise.

Because the dance was all hand-painted.

Han Qingwen has seen a lot of idol dances with 3D performance, and he is not smart enough and stiff, he has learned animation, so he naturally knows how energy-consuming hand-drawn dance is, and he does not force it.

But Electro Animation did.

In the four-minute performance plot, the phantom animation is hand-drawn throughout the whole process, and the number of drawings is extremely high, and it is smooth to the naked eye.

Not only that, but the overall design of the dance is also very clever, including the horizontal and vertical changes in the formation, which can be seen to be carefully designed for open-air performances, which is completely different from the "house dance" where the camera is fixed and the hands are dancing.

Although in the animation, only one little girl witnessed the performance of several people, but outside the screen, this performance was discussed by tens of millions of people.

On Weibo, this performance was intercepted and disseminated as a short video, forming a hot topic.

[Legendary Foodie]: I TM blew up this performance, and the idol animations of the past are really weak!

[A bowl of egg fried rice]: I have watched this paragraph back and forth ten times, the swing of the clothes, the movement of the hair with the body, every detail is so perfect, I declare that this year is the first year of Chinese idol animation!

[Flag is high]: How is this animation drawn, the serious original painting can't achieve this level of fineness, is it 3D to 2D with motion capture? I remember that the game graphics of Breath of the Wild were very good 3D rendering 2D.

[Dumplings with vinegar]: It can't be 3D motion capture, you can see those 3D shots, the actors are wearing tights and rely on the capture point to record the action, there is no way to depict the movement of clothes and hair in such detail like this animation.

[Animation Marshal]: I think it should be rotoscoping, or at least referring to the curves of rotoscoping, otherwise there would not be such a delicate picture.

[Yellow Mouse]: If you rotoscote, it doesn't feel like it's technical, isn't it just turning the image into a line picture?

[lxt9]: Don't underestimate rotoscoping, even if you use rotoscoping, if you want to draw the movement trajectory of the clothes so perfectly, you also need strong original painting skills, and you must accurately understand the role of inertia.

"What is rotoscoping?"

On Sunday morning, after breakfast, Li Xue casually swiped Weibo, and saw that someone was discussing the dance of the third episode of "Songhai Idol is Legend", so she asked Han Qingwen with some curiosity.

"Well, this is simply a paper on the screen, and then the video is played, and the image is drawn through it, which is to trace the lines in the video."

After Han Qingwen watched that dance, he was shocked and reminisced.

It was definitely not a 3D production, it was undoubtedly hand-drawn, but after someone mentioned it, Han Qingwen thought of the possibility of rotoscoping.

Some sports animations often use this technique to capture the movements of athletes on the real field and use them as game scenes.

"That seems like an easy one?"

Li Xue thought about it, this is like following a painting, it doesn't seem to be too difficult.

"No, rotoscoping is not that simple, such as the animation "Songhai Idol is a Zombie", many of the characters in it are actually unrealistic, just like Lili, a toddler of the size, you can't find it in reality, if you rotoscote, there is a big gap between the actor and the character's figure, but it is even more difficult to draw."

Han Qingwen recalled what Lin Shuyi and Wu Hongyan mentioned when they chatted before.

Sports animation,The body proportion is relatively realistic,The difference in body type is not large,The difficulty of rotoscoping is very small,But this kind of dance,The proportion of the characters' bodies is not consistent,It's a lot of trouble to rotoboard,At least there is no way to simply copy,It can only be used for reference。

"It's really hand-drawn, maybe it's a rotoscoping technique to aid the painting, but it reflects the skill of the original artist."

Han Qingwen replied that in the afternoon, there was finally movement on Weibo.

First of all, a group of original artists in the industry expressed their opinions, among which [Shepherd of the Library] made it clear that this is not a 3D rendering, but a hand-drawn, and it is very likely that a rotoscopic is used, and also gave a few previous examples, saying that even if it is a rotoscopic, the quality of this dance is extremely high, no less than normal hand-drawing.

Then, the official Weibo of Phantom Electric Animation made a statement, saying that this dance was indeed completed using rotoscoping technology, and also announced a dance clip of the original line drawing photography.

In the clip, you can see that there is no coloring, only some line drawings with drawing instructions are smoothly performed to the music, which is no different from the main anime.

The Weibo post ended a two-day bickering.

This part of the performance was not completed in 3D, but by hand, and it was a wonderful performance completed by the original artist and the animator!

It wasn't until this time that many people suddenly came to their senses, and the performances of the previous two episodes, although not very serious, were all hand-drawn!

Does Denki really intend to keep all the performance parts of this idol anime hand-drawn?

This is certainly a good thing for the viewer, as hand-drawn fine paintings look noticeably better than stiff 3D.

But for those in the animation industry, it's not so comfortable.

Ningjiang animation salted fish group, a rare Sunday, the group did not fall silent, but the discussion was in full swing.

[Sand Sculpture Group Friends (9)]:, Xu Rui is asking for the life of other companies, how can any company dare to do idol animation in the future, if you do another 3D performance, you must not be sprayed to death by the audience.

[A dead end for animation]: It's hard to do, originally 3D is to save costs, everyone makes do with it, and now Phantom Animation is really single-handedly raising the threshold of idol animation to the point that ordinary companies can't afford it.

[Bone]: I think it's good, lest the shoddy idol animation make the audience think that this kind of animation is like this, and the phantom can be hand-drawn, and other companies can also hand-draw.

[Dog Touches Fish]: It's difficult, originally our company was going to follow the trend and make an idol animation this year, but now it's like this, the whole project has been sent back for re-evaluation, and I feel that idol animation will be difficult to do in the future.

[Your group mascot]: Alas, you say, Xu Rui doesn't engage in idol groups, and he doesn't have any linkage plans, how can he make such a high-quality animation, what is he drawing?

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