How a traditional Chinese painting looks 3D… and animated!
Technorati Tags: 3D, animation, art, China, Chinese painting, calligraphy
The video above was produced by the Shenzhen branch of the Institute of Digital Media Technology (IDMT), which is associated with the Global Digital Creations (GDC). The GDC/IDMT group is located in Shenezhen, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. The Shenzhen base is a production house as well as school; the Shanghai base is primarily a school; and the Hong Kong & Singapore are for marketing and operations.
Both the websites for the Shanghai and Shenzhen centers feature demo animations but the Shenzhen site is the only one that carries work with a distinctively Chinese style.
Backtracking to the video above, the questions are: what is lost in the transfer from 2D to 3D, can the style scale to a film (a tv commercial it can surely do), and how long will it take before someone tries doing so?
Original video found over at One Inch Punch.
P.S. 2D animations of traditional paintings have been done in the past, I have a set of DVDs called 中国水墨动画 with a bunch in there — interesting, but it didn’t hold my attention beyond five minutes.
lame
reminds me of Okami for PS2
Yeah. Play Okami.
Y’all prep school white boys won’t ever get the point of all this: the achievement in the 2D/3D transition is not so much in its content or technique but rather the end result, i.e. a modern interpretation of traditional artwork or to a certain extent Chinese history. Show this to your Chinese-born friends and see how they react.
“Show this to your Chinese-born friends”
my chinese friends are too busy making and selling gold in wow to bother with this im afraid
Very nice, the animation really evokes the feeling of traditional Chinese painting.
Karuna62 : why do you think white people wouldn’t understand this ? I found it to be very peaceful and interesting, doing calligraphy myself. Dumb people can be found in any civilisation, you know.
well done. interesting concept. don’t pay attention to the wow losers dissing this.
i liked its, reminded me of cell shading too
Kurzclip: ‘Calligraphy in 3D’
Die Animation einer chinesischen Kalligraphie wurde vom Institute of Digital Media Technology (IDMT) in Shenzhen, China, erstellt.
Das Experiment will folgende Fragen aufwerfen:
‘Was geht beim…
the above description is misleading.
I thought it was a 2d drawing animation rendered into 3d.
But the above animation is all 3D and rendered through Shaders to make it look 2d.
My God that was Great! I would love to do music to something like some time. Someone has do that to Japanese Brush Paintings!
quite pristine. Would shell out the do-re-mi for a full length movie.
Seriously though, looked really serene and enough to pull you in.
To heck with Okami, watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI intro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy9xl-JfM4I
2D alike rendering in 3D animation modelling sure gives more live to the 2D animation.
The old things is just some kind of being refreshed.
I would really love to see this done for a Monet.
Wow, this is very touching. I’ve seen something a bit similar done in actual 3d, for the Van Gogh Starry Night painting – here is a video of someone building the 3D set in the virtual world of Second Life. http://youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA
Good site! I’ll stay reading! Keep improving!