At the beginning of the project I want to do part of the final project. But after thinking about it, I don’t want to spoil the integrity and continuity of final project. So for this project I am going to do a different theme. But the style is consistent with the final project. Think of this project as a preview.

What follows is the source of inspiration and project settings for this project.

Inspiration

The inspiration for this project is the ancient Chinese prose “Peach Blossom Spring”. (Translation may be wrong. Its Chinese is 《桃花源记》)

The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring is one of the representative works of Yuanming Tao, a writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This article uses the clue of the whereabouts of the fishermen in Wuling to connect the reality and the ideal realm. Through the description of the peaceful, happy, free and equal life in Peach Blossom Garden, it expresses the author’s ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with the real life at that time.

Reference video

Theme Setting

In this project, I mainly wanted to show that the protagonist found a mysterious cave in the deep forest. Just like in “Peach Blossom Land”, the protagonist found a fairyland in the crevice of the mountain in a peach blossom forest.

For this project I want to create a female character myself. Use UE4 to build scenes of dense forests and mysterious caves.

Team Members:

Chenghao Su(c.su0220201@arts.ac.uk)

Mengyang Yin(m.yin0420211@arts.ac.uk)

Project Brief:

The term “virtual idol” was invented by the Japanese in the 1990s, but there have been characters that fit a similar concept before. Lin Mingmei of “Macro Stronghold” was a representative virtual idol of this period: in his name, the episodes in the play were released as idol albums and entered the Oricoon list. These images born before the concept are generally called “virtual idols of Yuanzu”.

With the development of science and technology, virtual idols continue to evolve into various forms, and the interactivity is getting stronger and stronger, and the definitions are constantly updated: from virtual idols based on 3DCG, virtual idols based on network activities, and virtual idols based on games , all the way to idols based on music production software. As the first virtual idol to use holographic projection technology to hold a concert, Hatsune Miku has held concerts in many countries.

Among them, technological progress is an important driving force for the generation and development of virtual idols, such as 3D modeling technology, sound library technology, and holographic imaging technology, which provide the necessary material conditions for the construction of virtual idols. In addition, the development of two-dimensional culture also provides a broad market for virtual idols. Some media believe that the popularity of virtual idols is because TAs will not collapse or have scandals, and satisfy people’s perfectionism complex.

Our inspiration came from Hatsune Miku’s 3D concert. We refer to many AI virtual characters and want to create a character by ourselves to achieve the breakthrough of the dimensional wall. We’re going to use the advanced 3D animation we’ve learned to make a video of an AI dancing, and we’re going to apply new techniques like stage art.

Task Assignment:

I am mainly responsible for the scene in this project. Including scene modeling, lighting, rendering and more.