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On the basis of my research, I created a final story about a poor man who lost his job and his home. He could not even feed himself, so he tried to abandon his pet dog, but eventually could not bear to abandon his good partner and Re - find his dog.People will become self-defeating in the plight, but in the end they will make it because the pet's companions will make them become strong and we can said that the pet's trust so that they regain confidence.

I have a beautiful story, the next is to do animation work.At first I designed the protagonist as a girl, and later changed to become a sad young man(Fig.1). This setting also caused the audience a sense of resonance, so that they can replace their own experience on the character.Then I made a pet dog draft, its prototype is a Japanese star dog name is SHUNSUKE.It is a small kind of pomeranian. This little creature is very lively and loyal, it is quit suitable to accompany it’s sad master.

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Research Reflection

After this series of studies and interviews, I came to some conclusions.

When I intervied practitioners, each of them has their own way to develop their animated business. Professor Liao Xiangrong is more willing to call himself an artist rather than selling his own animation, which is based on his already have a stable and respectable work under the conditions. As a students, his attitude towards the cause of animation is clearly not suitable for me, because in my pursuit of my dream and I have to pay my bills at the same time. Wang Yongren’s situation was closest with me, he and I are the same period of animation students, I chose to study abroad to continue his studies when he chose to employment. His experience for me and great inspiration, identify a target position and focus on that area.In the early stages of my development this may be a good way, it can make me more contact with my industry and learn some schools can not teach me things.However, for the MTJJ director's interview is like for me to open a dream door, he told me there is such a way to run their own animation career. That is put it on the network to broadcast and sell my own animation works. It sounds very difficult, but the advantage is low cost, freedom, so I can work while doing their own animation. There are some other interviewers have also given me some of their suggestions, such as from the commercial illustrations began to accumulate experience, and so on after the formation of their own animation team to create animation.

They share with me many of their own real experiences and ideas, which I have great inspiration. They also made many suggestions for my work. Professor Liao Xiangrong suggested that I should pay attention to the time plan, if I can not follow my plan to produce my work, than I should develop some short-term plan, such as the weekly to complete the workload, at least every day to do the end of the stage.I would like to try this advice that he gave to me, I need narrow the planning cycle, so that every day to do things to do. And Wang Yongren as a role designer, he is very important character design of this part, he suggested that I focus on my role set, so that my role is more features, more in line with my story.MTJJ suggested that I try to streamline the story structure, highlight what I want to express, omit the story is not useful.

Interviews and lectures brought me a huge amount of information, I felt a lot of positive effects. Candy Guard's personal attitude has a great influence on me, and I think I should adjust my negative attitude towards work and creation, and should think of her as a very happy thing like her, not fear Will encounter difficulties.And MTJJ experience also makes me feel very inspired. I liked his advice very much, insisted on doing what he wanted and operated in a low-cost way. This can solve the biggest financial problems in the animation, you can also accumulate my production experience.

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The third one is a people who has great inspiration for me. He is a certain reputation of the network animation director in China, he claimed to be MTJJ. In the era of China's original animation industry is not developed, he put his animated short film on the Internet serial and quickly accumulated a strong popularity. His masterpiece "The legend of LUOXiaohei"  has become a very impressive and excellent animated short film in China's original online animation and is broadcast on the BILIBILI, YouTube and other video sites and is very popular. I am so happy to have a talk with him, we use WEIBO as a communication tool for a conversation, in his conversation with me a lot of benefit. He shared with me how he operated his own animation career.

In China, if an animator wants to show people their animation works, they often do not choose to broadcast their own works, because China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has a harsh review mechanism for the listing of film and television works very harsh.He did not want to cater to the terms of the SARFT (China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television ) to modify his work, he thought it would make his work lost soul and appeal, so he turned his eyes to the Internet. At first he just uploaded his work to some well-known video sites as individual users to share and it can not rely on works to earn reward. With his popularity is growing, his work is getting higher heat, finally,  same Chinese major video sites have send an invite to him, invited him to upload his works on the their site, he also earned Had enough money to continue to support his animated creation and set up his own animation studio. In 2012, he changed his studio’s name to Beijing Huangmu Chunhua Animation Company to operate his original animated image ‘LUOXiaohei’, mainly covering comic creation, animation creation, animation image peripheral product design and sales. The conversation with him is a very different experience for me. He is a successful animator and a successful businessman who develops his own work into a popular cartoon image like Hello Kitty and Snoopy. In October 2015, McDonald's in China also began working with him, who produced videos and advertisements for McDonald's with blackheads, and they also developed the surroundings of McDonald's hamburgers and fries and it sale well in China.

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The second interview is with my classmate at BA course, his name is Wang Yongren.We also graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Visual Arts and Design Institute of animation professional, and I was different, he chose to immediately employment after graduation , he is currently working as a designer at NetEase. He is a good designer, from 2015 onwards, he entered the Netease company's game development department, involved in the production of a very popular in China 2.5D online game ‘Demon Seals’ , and is mainly responsible for the design and production of the character of the game(fig.5). We talked about a lot of things, he also shared a lot of his advice and ideas.

Although he is a professional animation students, but he chose the animation-related game industry after his graduation. He thinks he loves animation, but he does not love all the production stages of animation. Compared to the use of animation to tell a story or make a short film, he is more inclined to the role of animation production process design this part.He chose a special role in the design, which makes his goal in the job search process is very clear, and ultimately get a very good job. His feedback shows that he loves reading the design of the game designers and original painters and from the excellent design work to get inspiration. He said that he prefers ancient legends and myths,which because those fantasy stories can give him a huge imagination to inspire his creative inspiration.

He gave me some good advice. He thinks the character design is a key part of the whole project, a successful role to the audience to pass the whole world of the project set and can cause people to resonate, I should pay more attention to the role of the design, so that my role has a soul rather than a No characteristic puppet.

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In these so many years he did not stop his creation, while teaching students at the same time he created a series of outstanding works.In addition to the "realistic·dream" , Professor Liao Xiangrong respectively create some works such as "City·State" and "dream box" (fig.3) in 2009, 2014. In his feedback, he told me that he was keen to participate in the animation festival around the world and MC Escher's "contradictory space" is a very great inspiration for his work, all his works on the concept of magic is from this plane composition theory inspired. He likes to create fantasy animations, and there are some differences between the traditional animation creation process and his personal creative process.In his work, he used to create a small piece of experimental animation to define the nature of the entire video, rather than using the usual method to create the script, storyboard and character design, and then is the test. He said that this method allows him to quickly determine what he wants to create an animated short film, which for experimental animation has some help, but does not apply to conventional animation. And on the operation, talk to Professor Rong told me that he did not rely on the creation of animated short films to make money, university professor is his main salary source, he is more willing to call themselves as an animated artist rather than selling their own works.At the same time he also gave me some great advice. Time allocation has always been a big problem that bothers me, and I have not been able to do my job well at the beginning of my work plan, which makes my schedule a waste paper. He suggested that I start planning from the short term, such as what I want to do this week, and I should focus on the workload of the day rather than the workload for each time period. This can better supervise the progress of my work, rather than always think of today's work to stay tomorrow to do.

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I sent the questionnaire to everyone who I picked it. And then wait for their reply. Some of them responded to me very soon and they were willing to talk to me further. By talking to them and collecting their feedback, I summed up some of their suggestions for me.

First of all is my undergraduate university teacher, Professor  Xiangrong Liao. He is director of animation teaching and research department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts visual arts and design, but also a good animator. His works are mostly three-dimensional animated short films, he is good at fantasy class style, there are some his representative animation works calls  "CITY·STATUS" (fig.1), "REALITY·FANTASY" (fig.2). As my former teacher, he was very enthusiastically talking to me about his experience and gave advice on my work a lot.

According to his personal experience, he told me in the 90's China did not have any 'animation' major, until 2001, he studied at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts as a MA student then he was officially exposed to the animation.In the same year, he was selected by Universal Digital, which received a one-year professional training.At the time, Universal Digital recruited a passionate and talented teacher or student in the country. They offered a series of animated training to train talent for the first 3D animation film 'Thru The Moebius Strip' in China. Although a year later Professor Liao Xiangrong had to give up the opportunity to stay in the global digital company because of his MA course, but this section of the training manager has benefited him and let him have the idea to enter the animation industry. In 2003, his graduation work "Realistic· Dream" won a number of awards such as MAYA Competition China Division Best Animation Award, Sinograph China International Digital Art Exhibition 3D dynamic group first prize. After graduation he stayed at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts as a teacher , he trained a lot of excellent animation student, I am honored to be his students and get his teachings.

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I picked up some practitioners or artists related to animation to communicate, and got some very good advice and inspiration. They are university teachers, my classmates, Chinese social networking sites on the slightly famous animators and animation industry practitioners. In order to be better able to get their advice, I used some of communication tools such as phone, social software and email.I prepared a questionnaire to e-mail them, some people gave me a very serious and detailed feedback, but some people would like to pay more attention to share the experience which they think it may helpful with me rather than give  suggestions and make comments on my project. This makes me have to analyze the information that they have passed to me, and critically see their work and the advice they have given. I picked up a total of eight people, three of them whom were very interested in my project and talked to me a lot. In the Personal Research Studies part, I will focus on these three people that I think they were most helpful to me.

I produced a questionnaire that contained some questions:

1.Where do you usually find the inspiration of your work?

2.What inspired you to let you decide to make your project?

3.How is your design method  and processes worked?Does it apply to most designers?

4.How is your project running? How does it bring rewards for you?

5.Do you have any suggestions on how students should make their own projects?

6.What do you think of my ideas?

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Key areas of research

In my research process, how to write a story has become my main research area.In order to write a satisfactory story I have changed my mind seven times, from the traditional cultural themes to the campus bullying, and finally this is the story about man and animal.

I divided the research area into two parts, the first part is the background study which is to study the pet in different countries will have what kind of different treatment and the second part is how to express the pet for people is very important.This will be the main basis for my story.

At the same time I noticed that there was a large number of public advertisements on animal protection and caring for stray cats and dogs, and most of them were live movies and advertisements.I think the animation is also a very good form of communication, and animation has a wealth of imagination and more beautiful picture of the visual, these are real shooting is not available.Compared to live advertising and short films, animation can be accepted by people of all ages.So how to play the animation has a unique appeal and fun to play out has become a major area of my research.

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Why would i choose the story of the relationship between man and animal as the subject of my project?

Because I think in the present society there are a variety of problems, abuse and abandon the pet is one of the common problems.A French animal protection organization has released a group of survey data in 2015, the data show that only one year in France there are nearly 100,000 animals were abandoned by their owners.

And it is interesting that people who are cruel to treat their pets at the same time, those loyal creatures are still working for mankind.Some excellent animals have been trained as guide dogs, rescue dogs and Anti-drug dogs, they serve as human beings and contribute to world peace. They help humans in many areas, and they are able to do a lot of things which humans can not do.

I chose this theme because I wanted people to understand how animals were worthy of respect.Although they can not speak, but their feelings are almost the same with the human. The sincere feelings between man and animal are real and touching. Using this type of story as my project will make me very motivated to do it.

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About the project of mine

In this project, I chose the relationship between man and animal as the main theme I focused on. At the same time, I give the actor a very sad experience which can highlight their relationship are inseparable, just like a family.People often misunderstand the relationship between people and pets, most people think that pets are our accessories, they are items that can be bought and sold. However, people do not realize that the interdependent relationship between pets and humans.This misunderstanding caused many people to disrespect their pets, and when they were bored, they discarded the pet without mercy, which led to the numerous pets becoming stray animals and tragic death. The topic of this project is that to explore the relationship between humans and animals could be very close  and called on people to cherish their pets.I would like to use this warm story between people and animals to impress the audience, so that they can also feel the same happiness.

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When I am animating the story version, I really feel the importance of dynamic story version, it can be very intuitive to let me feel my story where the problem, where the need to modify.

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I found that the use of drafts to modify the story version is the most used since I used the most used method. So I tried to redraw some of the lens, let me for the animation story version of this step to lay the foundation.

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I tried to use the sketch to modify the story version, and cut off one of the small pieces, so my story rhythm more reasonable.

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I have positioned my story as a slow-paced story, so I have studied a lot of slow-paced animations. Compared to the intense adventure story, the slow pace of the story is often more moving people.

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I think the most successful no words animated short film is Tom and Jerry, this great work has become a world famous animation cartoon, and most I appreciate the story of its rhythm.

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How to grasp the rhythm of the short story has been plagued by my problems, I find some excellent animation short film as a reference, trying to answer my doubts. Excellent animated short films in the rhythm of the grasp almost all have their own style, animation people have their own understanding.

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In my research process, a blogger named Zhu Feng's Chinese animator has a great inspiration to me, and he has explained in detail the questions that have been encountered in the storyboard creation process.

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIyMjc1NzgwMw==&mid=2247484027&idx=1&sn=6655f783be16b853762942ad8f86fbc6