Yukai Du

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0:09hello everyone yeah my name is yukai um I'm from China and three years ago. I was still animation student but I always very interested in developing a style frame like a personal style for my work and to tell my own stories so this this was what I came up with in my final project it was also the start of my work and ♪

1:10so after this final project I started to work as an illustrator animator and I always try to find the balance between motion and steel image and being an illustrator I actually it helps me to have a better eye on graphics and shapes and combination of different colors but on the other hand I'm also from animation background so and what when I work on images I always think in a bigger picture like one step further how I can animate and what the whole scene of this image so today I'm going to talk about one of my project for tette it's a animated lesson it's a bit like TCH talks but as is for children and young adults so it's all animated in kind of interesting way and the topic was about the scale in the universe and how small humans are so that's what I got from the client from the beginning it's nothing image related it's all in text and what I usually do is I started to read the script over and over again because I'm not a native English speaker so it's quite challenging to actually get the structure right from the first read that's why you can see a lot of lines and numbers around and then after that I started to put a storyboard frame image next to it.

2:57And then I will illustrate down what I think in my mind and as you can see there's also numbers on those frames so I start I started to time the script and then translate it into my visual but you can also see there's lot of blue pen drawing on top of the pencil sketch is actually I started to think again and again and then to see which is the best way to translate a Tex script into visual so after this I would PL it a bigger frame.

3:30And then I can started to do sketches in details like the stars and people some characters but it's still a bit sketchy so what I do is I use my light box and then I chase the image again with a more detailed drawings and then we scan back the image into computer and this is actually the final storyboard I showed to the client and because I work quite a lot with voice over animation.

4:06So I designed this storyboard template for myself so you can see short numbers with visual but also with v voice over and then action how the movement is going to be like so it's actually quite easy for me and the client to communicate CU they can just talk about which shot and which line of the script and then we can easily make up make the visual right and yeah and then I always like to draw storyboard in details because I can easily cut them into the script and this is an example of how I make animetic the Apollo 8 astronauts flew a distance of 380,000 KM to the moon and our relatively small sun has a diameter of about 1.4 million km or 110 times the Earth's diameter a step further the Milky Way holds somewhere between 100 to 400 billion stars yeah that's it so you can see the detail storyboard is actually quite useful I can just cut them into the animatic and you will see later on how I use them for my production process and then here I switched myself back to be an illustrator I started to color the whole storyboard and then I treat it as one single illustration.

5:38So I can easily balance the colors and how much blue I want to use and then how much yellow background I want to transform to Green so it is really helpful for me to understand better the whole story line and now we choose two to three frames to go into details to do some style frame to show the final look of this animation. And I will usually go for those ones with characters because I can design the characters in the meantime in the frames and Al still I'm going to use this example to show you how I produce this animation.

6:22So this is the style frame of this scene and then after I design it I started to bring it back to AR the Apollo 8 astronauts flew a distance of 380,000 KM to the moon and our relatively small sun has a diameter of about 1.4 million km or 110 times the Earth's diameter a step further the Milky Way holds somewhere between 100 to 400 billion stars including our sun and each glowing dot of a galaxy captured in the Deep Field image contains billions of stars at the very least it's a bit boring isn't it cuz it's just shapes yeah that's how I started I just shut myself down from being an illustrator I'm I wasn't fzy about the details I just put geometric shapes like squares circles to just get the first movement right.

7:22So you can see I put this story board on the corner so I can see the timing is okay and then the transition is okay and then after that I will bring everything back to photoshop I start to draw in details but with the animation I can easy know how big the image I need so I can actually go in details like the Milky Way I need to go into details because it going to be a zooming and that's and then after these images I have a better idea what I need to do so I go back to Al F and then started to build up the scene with the elements I've draw the Apollo 8 astronauts flew a distance of 380,000 KM to the moon and our relatively small sun has a diameter of about 1.4 million km or 110 times the Earth's diameter a step further the Milky Way holds somewhere between 100 to 400 Billion Stars including our sun and each glowing dot of a galaxy captured in the Deep Field image contains billions of stars at the very least almost a decade after taking the Deep Field image scientists adjusted the Optics on the Hubble telescope and took another long exposure over a period of about 4 months yeah a bit better right.

8:53So I just studied to replace the elements I have and then in after effect I can see if the original movements right. So you can I add a bit more detail on the movement like slowly zoom out or slowly transform to another scene and that's how I work between steel and motion.

9:18Now I'm going to show you a cut of the final film the Apollo 8 astronauts flew a distance of 380,000 km to the moon and our relatively small sun has a diameter of about 1.4 million km or 11 10 times the Earth's diameter a step further the Milky Way holds somewhere between 100 to 400 billion stars including our sun and each glowing dot of a galaxy captured in the Deep Field image contains billions of stars at the very least almost a decade after taking the Deep Field image scientists adjusted the Optics on the Hubble telescope and took another long exposure over a period of about 4 months in the study of the universe space and time are inextricably linked that's because of the finite speed of light so the Deep Field images are like time machines to the ancient Universe they reach so far into space and time that we can observe galaxies that existed over 13 billion years ago this means we're looking at the universe as it was was less than a billion years after the big bang yeah that's my talk thank you much [Applause]