Animation Character Design in Fantasy World the Animation Discourse of “Dragon Slayer”

• Main Authors: Lu, Ching Chuan, 盧清泉
• Other Authors: Shih, C. Jay
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54137513687513410718

碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 多媒體動畫藝術學系動畫藝術碩士班 === 101 === Since classical mythology, fantasy literatures have always been the imagination of unknown world and keep evolving into a set of organized system. Stories involving paranormal magic and charming knights are the inspiration of countless creators; therefore fantasy literatures are constantly being widely used in games and movies. Nowadays, there are many movies based on fantasy background making fantasy literatures plays a very important part no matter in literature, entertainment and art. This article is divided into two parts. The first part is analyzing worldview and characters from related materials. Although fantasy literature is evolving and branching into different fantasy genres, this article is based on the traditional High Fantasy. The second part of this article is focusing on the level of character design, from traditional 2D animations to 3D motion pictures, analyzing the changes and differences in character design. This subject is based on a well-known fantasy background: knight slaying dragon, using 3D computer animation to present a dazzling action scene, hoping to bring our audience through a wonderful fantasy adventure journey. This subject is about how to discover the frameworks of fantasy creatures and characters. Hoping to create a 3D computer animation from scratch and breaking those character designs into many steps and stages, design practical and attractive roles with a system.