-No pictures are available due to Dreamworks Oriental Studios privacy agreement-
Task for the visit: Write a review, at least 700 words long, on the visit.
Dreamworks is a company where they made famous animated film such as How To Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda and many more. Dreamwork Oriental Studios, Shanghai, the studio we visited, were actually one of the main makers of these films.
During the visit, we are able to see how these films were made. Each film starts off with simple as simple as a storyboard. What is a storyboard? A storyboard is basically a few pictures that explains what is happening in the scene. A single film is made up of hundreds or thousands of storyboards (most of the time thousands). These storyboards are then carefully reviewed and only a few were chosen to be part of the main film itself.
Then we get into the making of the film. Each film starts with just a powerpoint slides of storyboards. After everything is confirmed, animations will be made. The animations just feature the main happening of the storyline, very little till almost none of the animations require good aesthetics. After all these animations are done, then layer and layers of aesthetics are added into it, special effects, background and stuff like these. Each different aesthetics added will be in layers. A fight scene from the present Kung Fu Panda itself can consist of more than 20 layers of effects added into it.
After everything has been added in, the whole animation will be rendered to make it into a film that is theater ready. Every part in this film making process takes a very long time. It is so long that when a new film is released on the theaters worldwide, the Studio already had or even started on films 2 sequels after, yeah, it is that planned out. These sequels are then made, and will get released as long as 8 years later, thats how long is it to take to make a film. But of course the studio doesn't just focus on one film only, it is working on many films at the same time, so there is sure a new film to be released from that certain studio now and then.
During the visit, we also get to see what was inspired to the making of these films. So apparently, I am not too sure about the other Dreamwork branches, but Dreamworks Oriental Studios, Shanghai, their films, one of the reasons why they are so successful is because they take good concepts from different types of successful films out there, and try to complile these good concepts and making something similar like that. For example if you only watch action genre of movies through the ages, you will find many similar, but yet still different action movie moves implemented into films from Dreamworks. It is actually quite a smart concept in my opinion, you take many different great things, and compile them together to make something even greater.
While walking around the studio, I get to see many familiar film titles, and a couple, around 1 or 2 new films that Dreamworks Oriental Studios plan to released soon. Stuff like how the staff work there wasn't explained much in detail, but what we know that Dreamworks Oriental Studios is not only a place of work, but at the same time, a place of inspiration. Many materials that are donated by the staff in the company, such as books and film, are available for access for the whole studio, so whenever someone like the storyboard writer gets stuck and ran out of ideas, they can take these books and films for references, and hopefully help them generate new ideas for the film.
Honestly, I'm not really the art kind of person, but what I noticed at least, from the films made by Dreamworks Oriental Studios, would be that each scene in the film are able to evoke a certain emotion due to the theme of the background and stuff. No matter how little it is, we can still feel a little something when watching parts of these films.
Ok and to end off, the same as the Ubisoft trip, do look forward for good future films as Dreamworks Oriental Studios are planning some really good movies that are coming out soon in the near future.
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