“The Beauty” by Magic Animation Studio
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 11
Title:
- The Beauty
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Magic Animation Studio
Description:
The story of a girl who tries to assassinate the Emperor of the Qin dynasty, animated in the meticulous style of ancient Chinese painting.
”The Beauty” uses Maya as the major software for the whole production. As 3D software, Maya is always deemed to be weak and hard to handle in demonstrating 2D rendering as well as meticulous painting rendering. For “The Beauty”, the production team explored Maya’s potential and possibility in representing old Chinese-style painting and murals, including delicate and aesthetic characters, magnificent and majestic palace scenes, thousands of soldiers fighting in a battlefield full of smoke and fire, and dances with long flowing silk inner sleeves.
Software:
Autodesk Maya 2008 Shake 2.5, Photoshop CS3, After Effects 6.5
Additional Contributors:
Story: Mao Qichao
Director: Mao Qichao
Character Mock-up: Mao Qichao
Art Director: Mao Qichao
Technical Director: Zhu Tinghua
Producer: Mao Qichao, Zhu Tinghua
Lead Animator: Zhu Tinghua
Animators: Pan Zhichao, Zhong Sheng, Wei Yichao
Production Assistant: Wang Juan
Production: Magic Animation Studio
Acknowledgment Special thanks to Mr. Mei Linmao for his music: “Curse of the Golden Flower”
