CATDOLL: The 3D version of the Spring Festival Gala mascot is a big mistake in its "excessive pursuit of perfection"

After the official website of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Monkey launched this year's Spring Festival Gala mascot "Kang Kang", it triggered heated discussions and photo-editing craze among netizens on the same day! The reason is that everyone thinks this mascot is too ugly. So what is the reason for everyone's complaints?

Recently, Zhou Chen, IP creative director of Shanghai Huanwei Digital Creative Technology Co., Ltd., believes that there is a problem in the process of transforming from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. Judging from the 3D version released, the problem lies in the taboo of "excessive pursuit of perfection".

Zhou Chen said that in the digital image production industry, there is a popular saying that " a truly good work does not look like it was made by a computer ." That is to say, when designing, you often have to consciously add a "flaw" to prevent it from looking too symmetrical and perfect. In fact, in Han Meilin's original draft, the monkey's eyebrows and ears were larger on one side and smaller on the other, and his hair was not completely "parted in the middle," but in the 3D version, it was designed to be completely symmetrical on both sides .

At the same time, ink painting is precisely about artistic conception and blank space. To express the feeling of smoke and fog, a skilled Chinese painter only needs a few strokes, but for a computer, it is a huge project to calculate the light and shadow refraction, and movement trajectory of millions or even tens of millions of particles.