Cogito Animation showed up in “Media Tech Expo & Conference”

哲想动画亮相“MeTec影视前沿技术大会”

Media Tech Expo & Conference (MeTec) is a professional activity that host by “Ying Shi Zhi Zuo” magazine of Academy Of Broadcasting Planning. SAPPRFT and DV ASIA, and co-organized by Chinese Television Technology Association. It uses the professional seminars and media technology exhibition accesses, named “media technology seminar” and “Post NAB exhibition”. Among them, the “media technology seminar” has two parts: one is high quality special performance and cutting edge manufacture quality special performance. It focuses on the international media manufacture area’s trend of popular application of technology. It shares the domestic and foreign latest outstanding program examples, and let attenders get firsthand experience of the cutting edge technical products and ideas which are released by NAB in2016. They set up the virtual reality, production software high dynamic range and other experience zone, and screen the national and international outstanding program at the same time.

On May 13^th and May 14^th, Cogito software Co. Ltd showed the non-paper animation software Toon Boom Harmony and Toon Boom Storyboard, the brand new 3D printer Botobject, V-ray maya and other media animation products. There are so many products in the exhibition. People who from varies areas and attended the exhibition are all attracted by the application of the new technology. Cogito Animation’s full color 3D printers of and interactive bird standard system attracted even more people. Suchuan Sun, the vice secretary for Science and Technology Department of SAPPRFT, Xiuzhong Xu, secretary for Radio and Television Planning Institute of SAPPRFT, Xinmin Li, former secretary for Radio and Television Planning Institute of SAPPRFT and the general editor of “Ying Shi Zhi Zuo” and many others visited Cogito Animation’s booth, saw the objects which were made by the full color 3D printers and experienced the interactive software bird standard.

Cogito Animation provided wonderful classes in the study area.

The first one is the powerful film and television dynamic tracking software—Mocha Pro

Mocha—Pro is a set of independent tracking software. It can fulfill the needs of synthesis and special effects. Its special plane tracking and smooth interface can let users track storyboard immediately. Even if the tracking point cannot be used, for example, the film is too in mess or has dynamic blur, area which is out of picture or even the tracker is blocked, we can use Mocha Pro to continue our tracking and making solution successfully.

Mocha Pro can provide digital media artist powerful, intuitive and creative tracking solution. It has simplified interface, accelerated workflow and powerful tracking and operation lens. These are all different from the traditional solution. Mocha Pro is an ideal movie/ video post-production, creative animation and special effects tools which can transform 2D and 3D animation.

Mocha Pro is pretty famous in the Hollywood visual effects community, since it can “moving while tracking” the problematic scene, such as not accurate diagonals and no mark point area. And it develops the technique “Digital complement” and “seamless effect”.

Visual effect artists can use plane tracking like magicians moving actors and areas but without immediate remedy or expansive scenery. Therefore, directors can carry on more important creation after capture the scene.

The second class: Rendering software V-Ray for Maya

V-Ray for Maya is a complete solution developed by Chaos Group and can realize interactive rendering between CPU and CPU. This robust and trusted engine is the perfect rendering tool for people who are experts in making movies and 3D animations. The new version contains a lot of updates and improvements. The new functions of V-Ray for Maya includes: V-Ray RT and V-Ray RT GPU, the faster rendering dynamic geometry (substitution, skin, prototype, hair and so on), the faster rendering rener-time subdivision surface, VRayFur and Maya Hair, VRayCarPaint material, VRayToon shader and so on.

V-Ray for Maya’s new functions:

V-Ray RT and V-Ray RT GPU get the unprecedented speed and flexibility from V-Ray interactive rendering system. It supports Maya 2011.5 and Maya 2012’s texture quick rendering subdivision surface, skin and hair Vray CarPaint material--- using base, flake and coat layers and creates astonishing car drawing textures. VrayToon shader can provide exciting animation effects for your rendering. It also supports Maya fluid. With Nuke displacement mapping it can realize lens distortion turn off/on camera’s sport blurry section under the batch rendering mode, which supports the Maya stereo camera.

The third and fourth classes: non-paper 2D animation software Toon Boom technical function

Regardless of live animation, general media animation and normal animation, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is professions first choice when they create video games, TV dramas or long movies. Storyboard Pro brings more design creative thoughts to artists and turn the creative thoughts into visual story and then into complete works. We unite the drawing experts of first scenes to develop this Storyboard Pro. It will enhance the creative efficiency of the early works form a brand new height and improve the cooperation between creators. Its powerful function can make creators create better digital scenes.

Storyboard Pro is the best choice when artists start digital storyboard.

Storyboard Pro allows us to use bitmap drawing tools in the software directly.

Storyboard Pro allows us to operate in the integrated 3D space, and import 3D model when starts this function.

Storyboard Pro can add camera lens’ pull and push directly.

Thanks to the non-paper animation, Storyboard Pro’s work can be exported in PDF version and with the latest storyboard and can be modified anytime.

Storyboard Pro can transform all the storyboard to Toon Boom Harmony or Animate Pro directly, optimize your working process and save the time of scene creation.

Toon Boom Harmony’s predecessor is the famous USA Animation.

Its development path is: USA Animation—Toon Boom Opus—Toon Boom Harmony.

Toon Boom Harmony includes many function module software, including XSheet, Scan, Play, Control Center. Among them, State is the main function module and most of the animation creations are made in Stage.

Toon Boom Harmony’s feature:

• The combination of bitmap and vector illustration.
• The usage of rough animation onion skin tools and through-desk tools.
• Application of pencil lines (pencil editor) texture and colored texture.
• The use of paint bucket.
• ID of the color
• The settings of people’s shadows, dark side and highlight; the setting of 3D shadow shading.
• People split.
• The cutting of the eyes and the turning of the head.
• Show interactive sessions and lip sync.
• The usage of bone deformer and curve deformer
• Application of particle effects and ofx particle plug-ins.
• The construction of 3D space
• The usage of 3D model and the application of orthlock.