During the summer vacation, I learned a lot about the different animation industries, apart from the storyboard, I found that illustrator, as one of the important animation roles, is suitable for me, too. I had illustrator experiences for many years and I drew different kinds of illustrations.

Therefore, in the animation industry, I found that I can draw some advertisements for animation companies, for instance, the 3D animation film, what I can do is draw the 2D version of the animation for the advertisements and attracts more people to enjoy the animation.

Probably I love to work in Chinese animation companies because I found that the scene of animation is very suitable for me, like protecting our environment. I practice one of my illustration practice about the low-carbon theme.

I spent about seven days finishing this illustration. The main focus is on “Lighting up a Low-carbon Life Style, Guarding the Harmony Between Human Beings and Nature” to develop a green future.

We are all the protectors, builders and beneficiaries of the ecological environment.

We are all practitioners and promoters of ecological civilisation, practising a green and low-carbon lifestyle. Only by taking practical action to reduce energy and resource consumption and pollution emissions can we gather the majestic power of ecological protection and safeguard our global home.

It can be found that the illustration mainly uses cold colour tones, with blue and green tones in my illustration. For this illustration, my keywords are internationalisation (global), people, low carbon travel: (cycling, public transport, litter picking, recycling of bags, waste separation bins), urban (rural) – contrast animals (polar bear, walrus, rhinoceros, Antarctic emperor penguin, whale, panda bamboo, Asian tiger, African elephant, birds, American snowshoe hare, amphibian forest frog, mountain pangolin), coastal wetland coral colonies. Plants (birds and flowers).

Also, I want to introduce the elements of the composition: compared to a light bulb – a full white circle drawn on the earth to symbolise the ecosphere, the human and surrounding animals and plants, all taking care of the earth as an ecosphere.

Therefore, I also know that becoming a professional illustrator needs to design posters, this is the most widely recognized kind of work for artists, an approach to utilizing banners to advance celebrations, occasions or the send off of new items, and publicizing organizations, as organizations that serve different organizations, normally need us to attract represented banners as indicated by the requirements of our clients. Also, supporting colleagues in print and 3D, which are created based on material, so at the proposal stage, the final result cannot be seen visually and we need the help of the drawing room to draw up a draft to show to the client. Doing some IP image creation, with the IP boom, the illustrator is required to design the IP image based on the idea. In addition, for the publicity comic to draw strips based on scripts provided by the client and put them together into stories. So I did a lot of drawing from it.

Storyboards play a very important role in animation. Storyboard artists can not only provide very important information in animation but also provide modellers and animators with the animation effects they want. The systems of animation companies in different countries are also different. American animation companies have a very obvious assembly line form, so people can see that this is American-style animation at a glance. Animation companies in China and Japan also have their independent forms. The most important thing is not what the storyboard looks like. The most important thing is the storytelling ability of the split mirror creator, and whether the creator can communicate all the ideas in the storyboard to the front-line producers who want to complete other processes later. Now I will analyze the photographers of animation companies in different countries.

Most of the American animation companies are based on the Disney creation mode and take the design of bisection lens as the advantage and disadvantage of animation. The topic selection of the story focuses on entertainment, which reflects the rich imagination and creativity. The division will highlight their personality in the plot arrangement, role and scene setting. Pay attention to the details of the animation, making the story more vivid. In the design of animated characters, American animation gives people a sense of immediacy and reflects a strong visual impact. Based on the design of character modelling, there is great tension from picture composition to rhythm control. In the development of American animation, the montage technique is used in the expression of lens language. Compared with Chinese animation, the picture style is more restrained and implicit, and the rhythm is quite slow.

In the storyboard from a China animation company, the character’s quality has rich imagery characteristics, which extends freehand brushwork to the development of animation, and is good at replacing reality with emptiness, which to some extent reflects the slightly exaggerated expression of the characters. To a certain extent, which reflects the nation’s way of life and thinking, and excavates the nation’s artistic resources and humanistic connotation. The combination of China’s national cultural tradition and the modern artistic characteristics of animation has gradually formed a ‘Chinese Style’. In terms of character design, the quality of Chinese animation characters has rich imagery characteristics. It extends freehand brushwork to the development of animation and is good at replacing reality with emptiness. To some extent, this reflects the slightly exaggerated expression of the characters.

Japanese animation companies usually have different kinds of storyboard painting styles. The style of storyboard painting is generally realistic. Generally, its facial features, body shape, clothes and other places can refer to the scale model of world figures. Their characters’ world and their surroundings feel like the real world. There is even a line drawing style, which mainly focuses on lines. Although the picture is not perfect, this painting method can not only save labour but also produce good results.

In contrast, the design of characters in American animation is more realistic, expanding the features to a certain extent, and reflecting exaggeration. The advantage of American animation is not only to cater to the market but also to gain strong recognition from the audience with its unique creative style and distinct storyboard advantages. Chinese animation has infiltrated Chinese traditional art forms such as paper cutting and ink painting, and its storyboard usually has a national style.

As far as I am concerned, I have drawn many types of illustrations, and I find that the painting styles of these companies are very suitable for me, because I want to try various animations when I enter the company. I can learn a lot from them, accumulate more experience, and play my unique role in the company.

As I am an illustrator in China, when I am trying to learn how to make my characters move, I decide to learn how to draw animation. When I am drawing each frame, I found that clean-up is both significant in liveliness and outline, which helps the last impacts more clean. Clean-up is a piece of the work cycle in the making of hand-drawn development.

In 2D animation, organizations need to have amazing liveliness last impacts. They need to invest some part of their energy on tidy up. the essential drawings are delegated “roughs” or “unsavoury development” since they are commonly finished in a particularly free plan. If the energy is pencil attempted and upheld by the boss, clean variations of the drawings should be done. In greater animation studios, this task is given to the artist’s partner, or, in a more specific setting, to a clean up-specialist.

The specialist doing the clean-ups is responsible for the last line and the finished look of the drawn individual or thing. Clean-up development is the most well-known approach to making the last drawings you track down in the finished film. It doesn’t be ensured to mean a “great” scant distinction.

The expert, normally a gathering of trained professionals, uses key drawings and energy charts from the artist, making it seem like one skilled worker has made the whole film. The clean-up experts will follow the assumptions of the artists and stay predictable with execution and advancement.

So I decided to watch others how to deal with the clean-up animation on Youtube. The clean-up usually copes with the rough animation.

The whole presentation is separated into scenes, which are then separated into individual shots. These shots are therefore allowed and every illustrator does their part.

Fruitful movement depends a lot on two things: strong drawing and development. Covering circles are frequently used to reliably infer volume. The elements of each character can then be applied to the natives that they’ve been worked out of. Before this occurs, these fundamental drawings are classified as “roughs.”

While attracting this way is the most effective way to wind up with structure and development that feels legitimate and exact, roughs take a subtle approach with nearly nothing. Assuming you’ve at any point seen an exemplary liveliness model sheet, you realize that characters like Mickey Mouse are just a couple of circles stacked upon each other.

To sell the story, these mathematical subtleties are made less clear by covering them with a layer of a clean-up and over. It is a tedious interaction, however one that improves the work extraordinarily.

Like a new layer of paint, clean-up liveliness is what compels Bugs Rabbit to resemble Bugs Rabbit and not a bizarre outline of something that kind of looks like him. Clean-up gives an enlivened creation a worldwide reliable look. This is all as per the formally acknowledged standard of how the person was planned initially.

Tex Avery lacked the opportunity and energy to enliven and tidy up every drawing of Bugs Rabbit expected to put on a 22-short lived creation. All things considered, his group of clean-up craftsmen would follow reference sheets made for this assignment after each edge was energized.

Customary Disney clean-up, when not doled out to an associate illustrator, was a task given to ladies solely. Men dealt with the majority of the genuine activity, However, the cautious and exact work of ladies was confided in regardless of anything else for the animation’s last show.

This term, I studied at one of the leading animation studios in the UK, which is called the Blue Zoo, the first large-scale animation studio in the world certified by B Corporation.

I was interested in the role of storyboard cleaner. My understanding of this job is that in a high-end CG children’s TV series, I need strong narrative and painting skills, as well as a clear understanding of composition and layout. Each day’s work might start with the story team’s initial board and additional director’s notes, and this skill is critical to getting clear storyboards that will be used throughout the production process.

If I wanted to succeed in this role, I would learn how to use thumbnails and director feedback to create coherent and accomplished storyboards, successfully interpret and apply comic time in scripts and thumbnails, and draw characters on all boards to maintain consistency and perspective and maintain the model. Also, working with the story lead and project director to ensure fixes and feedback are incorporated into the storyboard.

It also requires a good understanding of perspective, the ability to take advantage of the strong position and personality of a particular application, an understanding of layout and composition, the Ability to present and complete with own understanding of stories, the ability to guide and be willing to handle constructive feedback, and ability to communicate clearly with colleagues, work together and independently, the appreciation of project accuracy and close attention to detail, ability to work on time and under pressure, calm and efficient.

It is important to create project thumbnails to ensure the continuity of the story, to be able to add comments and additional thumbnails and to make sure they are complete and clear.

Because I think the job role is very interesting, and can early through a rough animated storyboard created the story, let the prophase work of this project have a framework and direction, the overall control style and narrative way, through the interpretation of the thumbnail and storytime, can help the director and the team to realize ideas and creativity, to clean up the line for the animation production process to clear. Maybe if you want to be a qualified animation director in the future, you should start by being a qualified storyboard and cleaning artist, laying a solid foundation and practising more.

The Royal Parks are some of London’s most popular, and also include Hyde Park, St James’s Park and Green Park.

Here is my illustration of Hyde Park’s Swan. This is the first time I sketched in Hyde Park. People from different countries come here for a walk and picnic, and I fell in love with this beautiful place. Moreover， swans are so elegant and beautiful, which makes people feel happy and enjoy their leisure time.

Here is my illustration of the beautiful landscape， which demonstrates a peaceful night, the beauty of nature is the best source of artistic inspiration. At the same time, I can find beauty in our daily life. Then， I will create beauty and record it as a work of art on my blog.

Here is my illustration of the bridge of sighs. It was my first time going boating in Cambridge, and I felt the environment outside the campus of Cambridge, the atmosphere of the classical tradition, which was a wonderful and pleasant leisure time. I hope I can have the opportunity to go to the campus of Cambridge and feel a more academic atmosphere and sentiment next time.

Here is my illustration of the Oath of Love. This illustration depicts a young girl playing the violin. When she met her beloved, she was inspired to dedicate a beautiful song to him to express her love. She believes time tells everything. Therefore, pigeons, flowers and the cello are selected as visual elements. Hope you love this feeling and gain more peace.

For my summer project, the Reflection on Reality, I chose the word Flipped, which is used to describe love at first sight and infatuation. It generally refers to falling in love with someone who has the flipped that becomes colourful to your life. The following is the Disney short animation Paperman I found on YouTube. I chose this short film to make a short animation about the emotional social phenomenon of cats and lions in the next step.

The Paperman is mainly telling the story of the middle of this century, New York, a young man on the way to work encounters a beautiful girl. The boy in the hands of a stack of paper inadvertently leaves a lot of marks on two people, both the girl and boy return to their respective life at the same time, and the young man find that girl come to interview the other side of the building, he relies on the stack of paper and the time and effort. Finally, the boy attracted the attention of the girl.

The Paperman was shot by John Kahrs, a former Pixar employee, and this was his first film. Released in 2012, the film was presented in black and white, using a relatively advanced method of combining hand-drawn animation with CG computer animation. Paperman tells a beautiful love story through a paper aeroplane. Love, at first sight, is beautiful, but the effort of two people is the important reason why they can meet again. Love works can move the author because as long as there is love, we can face all difficulties. Therefore, everyone can enjoy the happiness of love equally, and this will not change no matter how many years pass. Whether it’s in love or work, when you have an opportunity, you need to seize it and give it you are all. While witnessing a simple and beautiful love story, we also understand the importance of opportunity and hard work for success in the future.

The reason why I intend to the keyword and chose this animation, which is not over ten minutes, it makes me feel the flip of love. Once I meet the flip, the flip is wonderful. I had flipped, completely. Meanwhile, flipped can bring the audience a kind of appreciation of the moment and have “the best chance encounter in life” truly moved.

For this project for the London International Animation Festival in 2022, I chose the theme of being human and it is called Gossip Kills. Which is about 45 seconds of 2D animation short films.

About the background, my inspiration came from a social news event about how verbal violence can lead a person into the dark and kill a person. However, in the story, the little girl did foolish things like tripping over the banana peel on the ground, drawing onlookers to see the excitement. The little girl wanted to escape, but in the front is a gossiper, and behind is the abyss. Who can save her? If you were the girl, how to make a choice?

Sometimes, we are all ordinary people. We will all do some foolish things. Unfortunately, we are all language-violence people. No one will make an exception. However, we did foolish things and tend to surround ourselves with three types of people. 

Initially, someone who exerts violence of language, regardless of whether the parties have a voice, their first reaction is to stir up the fire and even stand on the moral high ground, and even anxious to label this person as different to show their moral cleanliness. 

Secondly, a crowd of onlookers who maintain a neutral attitude, and will objectively and timely remind the person who did the too stupid things to solve the matter as soon as possible. 

Thirdly, people are worried and sad. Privately, they will ask what is going on with the person. They do not want to participate in the so-called “public execution”, and they do not want the person to be hurt more by the discussion behind the suppression. 

After that, most of the time, the mouth is like a pistol. Gossip is like a bullet.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Revelling in verbal violence, dying in verbal violence. In the end, gossip will kill people.

That is the reason why I chose this theme as my story and presented it in black and white. I can use Photoshop to draw the background, TVP software to make the keyframe and intermediate frame of the animation to test action.

In the end, I will use Final Cut Pro to do the video clips, and AE software to make the simple special effects of the girl’s battle with the mouth.

More thanks for the two-week graduation film work experience.

Thanks for give me a chance to gain this Animation cooperation experience, which not only allows me to experience the process of sophomore students making graduation film in advance, but also provides me with animation character design ideas and production experience of next year’s graduation film in the future.

Thanks for Steve, my partner is Xue Zelun, who is a great animator，as a sophomore, she provide me a variety of material about her short animation style and reference. During the collaboration, I was responsible for character design and coloring in her short 2D animation. Usually in character animation, the color collocation and modeling of character design can show the character’s personality and emotion, which is the best way to show the animation character in the expression of short story.

Xue’s story is mainly made with 2D animation. In the story, a raccoon returns to a ruined planet to rescue his old friend, who is a bird.

After many discussions, we finally decided to choose two-dimensional style animation. My main job was to help Xue Zelun finish the character design of a raccoon, and to design different shapes and colors for the raccoon.

It took me about a week to finish the joint project. The other day, I finished the character design for the raccoon as fast as I could. I asked Xue Zelun what she thought of my work. She gave me feedback that the colors should be earth yellow, the lightness of the colors should be light and simple, and the rest should follow the storyboard and storyboard. In addition, in order to design a good character design of an animated short film, it is necessary to put the character into the story background and style, then do design and modify it.Through this cooperation, I have gained a lot.

First, I could stylize my character designs; In terms of color modeling, I can choose more expressive colors. Secondly, I learned how to visually present dynamic storyboard video through shooting board.

I also learned how to communicate with each other well in the cooperation of their own ideas, the final results can make each other very satisfied. I think that’s what I learned the most.

However, I have also learned how to present my ideas of short films with dynamic storyboard, so I will also put character design into the story and scene, and quickly check whether my character design is full of personality and characteristics through dynamic storyboard. These experiences will also be applied to my future practice.

From this the two-week graduation film work experience, I intend to make an approximately 5-minute 2D animation narrative film called Don’t Control Me. It narrates an unequal love between a cat and a lion.

I will use Photoshop to make the storyboard and design early-stage characters and props in my short 2D animation project.

Library storyboard