毛怡诚. Yicheng Mao

个人简介 About me

毛怡诚,女,鲁迅美术学院动画专业硕士研究生在读,专注于动画、数字艺术插画与游戏美术等创作,作品多次斩获行业奖项。

Yicheng Mao, female. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in animation at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in animation, digital art illustration, and game art. Her works have won industry awards multiple times.

作品名称 Animation Title : 梦 In A Dream

简介 Description:  在爱尔兰一座遗世独立的小岛上,住着一个早早被母亲抛下的女孩。她跟着父亲以海为家,日子过得像反复拍打礁石的浪涛,单调又沉闷。女孩最爱做的事,是每日坐在海岸线的礁石上。膝头摊着母亲留下的故事书,目光却总飘向远方,那是母亲当年乘船离去的方向,一坐便是大半天。海风掠过发梢时,她会轻轻哼起儿时母亲教的歌谣,调子温柔得像潮水;闲下来,就弯腰捡拾被浪花冲上岸的贝壳,把它们一颗颗攒在衣兜里,当作藏着念想的小秘密。这天,她照旧踏着细软的沙砾在海边漫步,潮水漫过脚踝,带来咸湿的凉意。忽然,不远处的浪花里探出一个湿漉漉的脑袋 ,是一只海豹。四目相对的瞬间,海豹的轮廓竟一点点模糊、重塑,最后化作了母亲的模样。女孩怔怔地走上前,感受着那双熟悉的手抚过她的发顶,鼻尖萦绕着记忆里母亲身上淡淡的皂角香。久违的暖意裹住了她,像沉入一片柔软的海。只是,这突如其来的温柔,究竟是海风酿成的一场绮丽幻想,还是海浪送来的一次真实重逢?

英文 (English): On a remote, isolated isle in Ireland lived a young girl whom her mother had abandoned when she was still very little. She made her home on the sea with her father, and their days were as monotonous and dreary as the waves ceaselessly crashing against the rocks.What the girl loved most was to sit on the rocky shoreline every single day. With the storybook her mother had left her spread open on her knees, her gaze would always drift far away—to the direction where her mother had sailed off all those years ago. She would stay there, lost in thought, for half the day.When the sea breeze brushed through her hair, she would hum the ballads her mother had taught her in childhood, the tune as gentle as the incoming tide. In her idle moments, she would bend down to pick up the seashells washed ashore by the waves, tucking them one by one into her pocket as tiny, cherished keepsakes of her longing.On this particular day, she wandered along the beach as usual, the tide lapping at her ankles and bringing with it a cool, salty tang. All of a sudden, a wet head popped out of the waves not far away—it was a seal.The moment their eyes met, the seal’s form began to blur and reshape, little by little, until it finally took on the very likeness of her mother.Stunned, the girl stepped forward slowly. She felt those familiar hands brushing over the top of her head, and her nostrils were filled with the faint, lingering scent of soap that she remembered so well from her mother. A long-absent warmth wrapped around her, like sinking into a sea of softness.Yet this sudden tenderness—was it merely a gorgeous fantasy woven by the sea breeze, or a true reunion brought by the waves?

使用软件 Tools Used: 剪映、Adobe After Effects、Adobe Photoshop CC

灵感与创意 Inspiration and Concept

调研参考:海豹女故事内容,英国传统服饰,海豹微表情。

故事脚本:夜晚,在深海,一只白色的海豹在睡梦中缓缓醒来,从海的深处游上海面,海豹慢慢游上了海岸,这时,它看到了一个女孩正在海边捡贝壳和海螺,女孩也看到了它,女孩准备走过去摸一摸海豹,海豹吓得躲在了礁石后面,女孩见状,停在了原地,小声地叫了海豹一声妈妈,海豹依旧躲在礁石后面不肯出来,女孩有点失望,这时候,女孩的眼睛被不知名的人用手蒙住,那个人松开了蒙住女孩的手,女孩转头看过去,是海豹女,海豹女慈爱的抚摸着女孩的头发,将女孩怀里的贝壳别在了女孩的发间,她亲了亲女孩的脸颊,女孩看着海豹女,止不住的流泪,她和自己的母亲相拥在了沙滩上,这时候,女孩从梦中醒来,发现自己不知道什么时候睡在了沙滩上,手里拿着妈妈给的童话书,书里夹着妈妈的照片(时间久远,已经有点模糊不清了),女孩从地上做起来走回家,但是她没发现的是,自己的头上别着刚才在梦中妈妈帮自己别上的贝壳,这个贝壳在夜里闪着光芒。躲在礁石后的海豹游回了海底,游过的路径泛起光芒。

Research Reference:The story of a seal girl, featuring traditional British clothing and micro expressions of seals.

Story script: At night, in the deep sea, a white seal slowly woke up from its sleep and swam to the surface from the depths of the sea. The seal slowly swam to the coast. At this moment, it saw a girl picking up shells and seashells at the beach. The girl also saw it and was about to walk over to touch the seal. The seal was so scared that it hid behind the reef. The girl saw this and stopped in place, calling out to the seal softly as "mother". The seal still hid behind the reef and refused to come out. The girl was a little disappointed. At this moment, the girl's eyes were covered by an unknown person's hand. The person released the hand that covered the girl. The girl turned her head and looked over. It was the seal woman, who affectionately stroked the girl's hair. She pinned the seashell in the girl's arms to her hair, kissed her cheek, and looked at the seal girl, Unable to stop shedding tears, she embraced her mother on the beach. At this moment, the girl woke up from her dream and found herself sleeping on the beach at some point. She was holding a fairy tale book given by her mother, which contained her mother's photo (which was a bit blurry after a long time). The girl got up from the ground and walked home, but what she didn't realize was that the shell her mother had attached to her head in her dream was shining brightly at night. The seal hiding behind the reef swam back to the bottom of the sea, its path shining brightly.

Script

Research Reference

角色设计 Character Design

Setting and Reference for Characters

Mood Board of the Characters

Design of characters

故事版 Storyboard

场景设计 Environment Design

技术实现 Technical Execution