New Century Anime Warrior

Throughout August, apart from attending regular classes in the classroom in the mornings, Si Hua spent the rest of his time in the multimedia classroom.

My daily workday starts at 2 PM after lunch break and continues until 11 PM.

During this period, Si Hua would personally perform tasks such as 3D modeling and keyframe hand-drawing on the computer on the podium.

He used any other spare computers that were up to par for off-the-shelf rendering and tweening of storyboard animations, which Si Hua called his hands-off work.

Thankfully, Adobe didn't shirk its responsibilities; by 2005, Flash already had shape tweening and motion tweening capabilities.

No more painfully drawing intermediate frames.

Si Hua initially estimated that the 5-minute PV version of "Voices of a Distant Star" would have at least 150 seconds of hand-drawn animation.

According to the standard of 24FPS, or 24 frames per second, for theatrical animation, at least 3600 original drawings would be required.

This scale completely stunned Si Hua. Even if he were a hand-drawing laborer at the level of a printer, he couldn't handle this workload.

Moreover, even if we adopt the "one frame, two frames" pattern commonly used in Japanese animation, which repeats two frames with one original drawing, it would still require 1800 original drawings.

This animation, which is strictly speaking only 12FPS, often has a slight stuttering feel. It is sufficient to support the plot, but it is obviously not refined enough as a PV.

So Si Hua then invited one of the MVPs of this production of "Voices of a Distant Star," the Flash automatic tweening function.

You only need to determine the keyframes and the vector direction, and then Flash can handle the rest by generating intermediate frames. The main thing is to let the computer run the calculations.

A quick calculation shows that I only need to hand-draw 4 to 5 keyframes per second to meet all the original artwork requirements.

This instantly reduced the workload, which started at several hundred hours, to just a few dozen hours.

It's a real hardship for the computers in the multimedia classroom.

Thanks again to Adobe for not being lazy.

Returning to the 3D animation section, it's similar. The content that Si Hua himself needs to operate is mainly concentrated on the modeling of mechs and scenes, the adjustment of materials and lighting, and the determination of animation rigging and keyframes.

The remaining rendering work can also be done simply by setting the parameters and running the machine.

It's really tough on the computers in the multimedia classroom.

The total time for hand-drawn animation and 3D animation is approximately 400 to 450 hours, of which about 150 hours are spent on computer-based processing.

Following Qiu Yin's suggestion, Si Hua needs to appropriately move the production of the 3D animation forward to August.

A quick calculation shows that Si Hua has been working at least 8 hours a day in the multimedia classroom during this period.

Reviewing academic subjects is dangerous.

On the other hand, because he was allowed to stay overnight in the multimedia classroom, he was able to keep the computer running for up to 15 hours a day while he was watching over the equipment.

Running for 15 hours a day?

Si Hua glanced at the 60 computers quietly arranged in the multimedia classroom...

It's just 150 hours. I can have 900 hours of AFK time a day. What do you have to fight me with?

I want to bet ten times!

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"In short, thanks to Teacher Qiu's help in applying for the use of the multimedia classroom, I had an unexpectedly large amount of time to produce 'Voices of a Distant Star'."

Si Hua, without looking up, told Lin Lin his conclusions while writing on the test paper Lin Lin had given him.

This is Si Hua reviewing Chinese and English under her tutoring.

The future is beautiful, but reality is harsh.

Last Friday and Saturday were the first monthly exams for senior high school students, and unsurprisingly, Si Hua's grades plummeted across the board.

The already absurd results have become even more abstract.

At first, I thought I had lived twenty years longer, and writing a little Chinese was a piece of cake, especially essays. With nearly forty years of experience, how bad could I be?

As a result, because I wrote something off-topic, I only got the ink point.

My English is a complete mess. Although I often read foreign literature and have a decent vocabulary, I still struggle with the reading comprehension questions because the answer choices are all traps.

In short, the results of all four exams have been sent out.

I didn't get last place in the grade, and I have to thank those muscle-bound guys in the humanities class for not taking the exam.

These guys are sports students. Whether they have a chance to become national athletes or they've already given up, they basically don't care about their grades. As long as they have a high school diploma, that's enough for them.

Therefore, the homeroom teacher had a special talk with Si Hua, and the core point was just one.

Even if you win an award, you still need to meet the academic requirements. Even if special admissions only require 70% of the second-tier university cutoff score, with your grades, you have no hope of getting in.

Si Hua thought her homeroom teacher's words made a lot of sense, so she readily accepted them.

The reason Si Hua agreed so readily was because after recalculating the animation production time, she found that the time was no longer tight, which meant she could handle things with ease and composure.

He decided to have Lin Lin and Chen Yu tutor him.

Lin Lin is the best in Chinese and English, and Chen Yu is the second best in math and science. With two such strong people serving me, how can I not fly to the sky?

As for Zhou Zhe's application for English tutoring...

A language-savvy person wants to tutor me in English? Don't think I don't know you just want to chat with your crush!

Therefore, Si Hua expressed her gratitude for A Fei's kindness but firmly rejected him, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm with someone else."

Then, with a hesitant expression, he said, "You're a good person, and your kindness deserves better students."

"???"

Zhou Zhe is numb, and has lost all his assets.

Who doesn't know that the worst student in the Lingzhi class right now is this idiot who dares to monopolize the spotlight?

Are there any students with worse grades than you?

Must go alone!

We must reconnect with my former junior high school classmates!

My life, Fei Yangyang's life, is also a life!

Si Hua was writing an English test paper when Zhou Boyang Zhe's tearful face suddenly popped into her mind, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Lin Lin, who was helping to edit the short video of "High School Observation Diary", was also drawn back to the scene by the strange laughter.

"It's nothing, it's just that when I looked at the English test paper, I immediately thought of Zhou Zhe's antics."

Lin Lin understood immediately. She had become quite familiar with Zhou Zhe and Chen Yu these past few days and also learned that Zhou Zhe and she went to the same junior high school.

I realized then that Zhou Zhe was probably one of the male students whose inner potential had been unleashed.

"Did you tease him again?"

"How can you call it teasing? It's just our little bit of fun."

"Ugh! How disgusting!" Lin Lin was immediately misled.

Si Hua continued with a smile, "What are you thinking? I meant the two of us... He's just a sex toy..."

Snapped!

"Hiss hiss hiss!" It was the familiar Tathagata Palm.

"Your move is just like my mom's, there's no wind-up animation at all!"

"I learned that from Aunt Tang, so you can bully me!" Lin Lin rolled her eyes, ignoring Si Hua's lewd remarks, and continued editing.

The third episode of "High School Observation Diary" has been out for a while now, and we're only just starting to edit the fourth episode, so time is a bit tight.

Si Hua looked at Lin Lin's slightly pink little ears and twisted her body, which still couldn't find any palm prints with her hands, and chuckled twice.

This could probably be considered, in a sense, a case of a beautiful woman adding fragrance to one's sleeve?

I glanced at the spot where the two of them were sitting side by side.

This should also be considered a harmonious and respectful marriage, right?