Today, studying in Natural Light Art brings you A successful case of 3D animation and special effects in the United States, this student not only won an offer from SVA, Pratt and SCAD top schools, but also won nearly 300000 RMB scholarships! His professional works of 3D animation and special effects focus on telling a story about time, space, universe and self Let's have a look!

Successful Cases of American 3D Animation and Special Effects

Basic information of students

Classmate Yao

Communication University of China - pre game design

Application for changing majors

US direction

3D Animation and Special Effects

Application time: 2017

Application and admission

SVA / New York Institute of Visual Arts ≈ 15000 RMB scholarship

SCAD /Savannah Academy of Art and Design ≈ 15000 RMB Scholarship

Pratt/Pratt College of Art

Full admission

-Final selection-

SVA

3D Animation and Special Effects

Production process of 3D animation and special effects professional works

Yao is a graduate student who applied for special effects of film and television animation in autumn 2019. He studied pre game design at Communication University of China as an undergraduate. His original major was game design, so he had a good foundation in painting and had a certain understanding and foundation of 3D (especially model) software, but I am not familiar with the software needed for animation and special effects, which belongs to cross professional application 。

　　 Pre game design&3D animation special effects

　　 Games and Animation It can be called the existence of the second world or the ninth art, which can meet people's unrealistic fantasies, and they Combining art, music, film and other arts The unique interactivity that other art forms lack.

It is undeniable that there are many similarities between games and animation, but there are great differences when they are subdivided as majors and disciplines. Yao is good at CG original drawing and 3D model making, but the game major of Communication University of China is divided into two parts: pre game design and game programming courses. The student and Can't make a game independently, and don't understand the relevant knowledge of program He is very interested in 3D model animation and special effects, and thinks that he has encountered some bottlenecks in the pre game design.

　　 preparation in advance

The student came to the company to study in May 2017. As he is an interdisciplinary student, he first learned basic courses because he The foundation of painting is good. We directly learned professional basic courses.

The most important thing was to introduce the most widely used and effective 3D animation software to him MAYA, 3Dmax and 3Dmax special effect plug-ins Let's start with software basics, such as how to model with maya, and then talk about particles and fluids step by step. When learning basic special effects, the requirements for painting foundation are not high, and the color knowledge in life is enough. But when learning modeling, you need to know some basic art knowledge, such as lines and structures in sketch, which will directly affect the body proportion of the model. Yao has a good foundation in painting, so he has a great advantage in this study and successfully completed this part of the course.

After the basic lesson, we learned how to synthesize our own works, namely The learning of Nuke node of God level software in the film and television special effect synthesis link . Almost all the blockbusters we see in the cinema are composed by NUKE. This software has some difficulties, but it is the first choice for 3D animation special effects production, which can quickly produce high-level production.

The natural light has been arranged for Yao 8 basic courses of animation, special effects and film and television synthesis Students have made full use of each lesson in the basic lesson, so after the basic lesson, students have mastered certain special effects production capabilities, such as basic explosion, fragmentation, particles, fluids, etc. In terms of special effects and 3D animation, it has reached the middle and advanced level 。

　　 Collection production

Due to the establishment of foreign special effects majors, some schools will have separate special effects majors, while other special effects majors are subdivided into animation majors. So we mainly made a A combination of 3D animation and special effects.

How to Highlight personal ability, show ideas, creativity and artistic ability, They are all very important, so we have made great efforts to select the theme.

　　 The story originates from a dream of the student and his favorite theme --- the universe Students like the style of stream of consciousness very much. Finally, we made the project "Empty" by combining these points.

This story has three levels, One is the real world, the other is the outer space that the dream takes him into, and the third is the scene where the dream falls into the water after being broken. The hero of this story is a bird man. In his dream, he sees himself and launches a series of struggles. He constantly explores himself to find himself.

In the production of 3D animation and special effects professional works, we Repeated adjustments to the details of the story , including scene design. Due to the limitation of hardware equipment and time, we need to make the best quality picture within our ability.

In addition, this process involves a lot Learning new special effects knowledge and 3D animation binding and K animation production . We repeatedly tested the special effects and selected the most efficient production method, which saved a lot of time, so most of our final shots were produced at one time.

For example, for the part of 3D animation and special effects professional works that concentrate on water, we did not directly use fluid solution. We achieved realistic and time-saving rendering effects through material adjustment. In the whole film, we used an element -- eyes to run through the film To make the whole movie look more complete.

By making this work, students learned a lot of new knowledge, and Feel the production method and process of the whole 3D animation and special effects In addition to this work, we also made a series of small special effects to edit them into demo reel, and also made a series of static models and character designs. In the end, the collection of 3D animation and special effects made students apply to the ideal school and get a good scholarship.

　　 College selection

When it comes to special effects and animation, we all know that the film and television animation industry in the United States is world-renowned. As a big creative country, numerous blockbusters reflect the development of the animation industry of American cinematographers, which is absolutely in the leading position in the industry. In the end, Yao won the US at the same time SVA、Pratt、SCAD , three top art colleges Award offer There is no doubt that Yao finally chose SVA~

Visual arts majors are the strong majors of SVA, and special effects and animation majors are the best in the colleges and universities SVA teachers and students are involved in many commercial blockbusters Such as Superman, Spider Man, Batman, Kung Fu Panda, Finding Nemo, Transformers, Iron Man, Star Wars and so on.

SVA is closely connected with the industry, and has achieved an ideal balance between art and business in professional training of students The art school with the highest employment rate in the United States is also one of the top ten art schools with the highest salary potential in the United States. SVA campus is located in Manhattan, the center of New York City. It is a gathering place of various public museums and modern art. The artistic atmosphere naturally attracts every art major student.

On the whole, we worked together with Yao to successfully apply to the top schools in 3D animation and special effects. While students are excited and excited, I am also proud to be the instructor of 3D animation and special effects professional works. I hope that Yao will be more successful in his future study and life.

Tutor introduction

Miss Huang

New York Institute of Visual Arts

Computer Arts

Excellent courses: 3D production, film and television production

Mr. Huang graduated from the New York Institute of Visual Arts with a master's degree in art. He has a deep understanding and research on video production and 3D visual effects. Mr. Huang's graduation work Kepler has won the scholarship and full support of SVA. After graduation, she participated in the design and production of many parties and programs of major satellite TV stations, such as the Jiangsu Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala, the CCTV 3 "Back Shadow 2016" evening party, Beijing Kaku Children's Animation Spring Festival Gala and other stage screen designs, and has participated in the production of enterprise promotional films and other projects for many times. I hope to use my project experience and professional knowledge to provide more help and complete better works for students majoring in natural light video production and 3D visual effects.

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