Speaking of CG animation, poor friends who love to play games should not be strangers.
Since its inception, this form of animation has been inextricably linked to games. But recently Pepper discovered a very interesting set of CG animations on youtube:
These CG animations don't have any substantive plot, they are more like groups of "propositional essays" about a person who moves forward from left to right.
However, these animation authors used their imagination to add scenes and environments to a simple animation, so that this animation of a few seconds became a prologue to a story, and the rest depended on everyone's imagination.
The story may be about a man who is filming an animation in front of a green curtain.
It may also tell the story of a group of warriors fighting on the battlefield, braving the enemy's rain of arrows.
Or in a steampunk wasteland world, two explorers walking the streets with their equipment on their backs.
"In the eyes of a thousand people, there are a thousand Hamlets", in the eyes of a thousand animation authors, this "propositional composition" has a thousand different scenes.
As long as the wings of imagination are added, an animation that can be summarized in ten words, but there are countless stories hidden.
Many of these animations have a cinematic epic feel, such as the CG of Dragon Quest.
Or the story of an astronaut meeting a group of "zombie aliens" .
What is missing here is never imagination, and the story of the world and the sea is possible.
Some story segments even challenge the limits of your imagination.
This is probably the charm of CG animation.
CG animation has always maintained a high degree of relevance to games, so this "propositional composition" is of course indispensable to pay tribute to the game work, for example, this animation has a deep LIMBO (Hell's Border) imprint.
There's also this CG animation that pays homage to Death Stranding, which is simply a perfect fit.
And this, wake up, it's time to spread the fire.
The above works are all about an Internet CG Challenge Rendering Contest, which is selected from the top 100 works of the 2400 participating artists.
The initiator of the competition is an artist named Clinton Jones. In early June, the 3D animation director challenged the entire network.
He recorded a rudimentary video on Twitter that friends can feel...
The theme of this animation competition is to make a few seconds of CG animation based on the actions in this video, and build an environment scene for this animation.
In the days that followed, Clinton Jones received a lot of submissions on Twitter.
The participating artists also recorded their process of constructing the entire animation scene when they submitted their works.
Don't look at the animation for only a few seconds, but these artists put a lot of effort into creating the scene animation.
As of June 20, Clinton Jones had received submissions from 2,400 CG animation artists before Clinton Jones ran a nearly four-hour live broadcast on his YouTube channel.
Invite netizens from all over the world and 4 judges to select the top 100 works in everyone's hearts.
After the competition, Clinton Jones cut the animation of the top 100 into a 10-minute video that received more than 1.4 million views on YouTube.
And this video was moved to China, and also won the unanimous praise of domestic netizens.
This also allows these CG animations to be stuffed with an unusually large amount of information in just a few seconds, which has touched the imagination of netizens.
It is this charm that this CG rendering contest has attracted a lot of attention from netizens, and you may not know that this rendering contest has been held for two sessions.
In December, Clinton Jones partnered with a website community called "PNY" to host the first CG rendering contest, the first of which was themed "Parallel Time and Space."
The rules of the contest were simple: Clinton Jones uploaded a CG animation of his own making and asked 125 artists to build a scene for the animation over the next 5 weeks based on this 3D template.
At the end of 5 weeks, Clinton Jones selected the top 20 titles and edited them together.
Who knew that this contest of Clinton Jones and PNY jointly cooperated, which caused a lot of repercussions in the CG animation circle.
And after this clip video was uploaded to social platforms, netizens also had a high evaluation of these works, and it received more than 1.4 million views on YouTube alone.
Many CG animation artists tweeted privately to Clinton Jones.
So half a year later, Clinton Jones held the second CG rendering contest in his own name, launched a call for the whole network, and because of the foundation laid by the first edition, this competition attracted 2500 artists to submit their works.
So there's everything that the messengers see at the beginning of the article.
After brushing the editing videos of these two sessions, Little Pepper inexplicably thought of Netflix's animation "Love, Death to Robots".
They all have one thing in common: every animation is a story, they don't express it, but you can imagine it.
This is perhaps the biggest charm of animation.
Note: This article is from a bad review Jun, the right to invade and delete.
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