Week03 Analysis Report on Ralph Breaks the Internet

Abstract：” Ralph Breaks the Internet” is a comedy animated film directed by Phil Johnston and Ricky Moore. It is a sequel to the 2012 animated film “Wreck-it Ralph”. It mainly tells us that from the world of video games to the vast, unknown and exciting virtual network world, and whether the Internet world can withstand the destruction. Video games destroy Ralph and the naughty girl Winelop, who venture into the unknown online world to find stories that can repair the components of the Sweet Sprint game.

Stages

Act I: Introduce the beginning of the story from the game screen in the game room day after day. Here the supporting role bought a new wifi router, which foreshadowed the development of the story.

Act 2: At this stage, Winelop lost control in the game competition and damaged the steering wheel of the car. Because the game version is very old, it is difficult to buy the original game controller, so the owner of the game hall decided to sell the game console. The characters in the sweetheart racing game are in danger of being eliminated, which creates problems and contradictions for the protagonist.

Act 3: Ralph and Winelop have different ideas about the world outside the game. This is also the main contradiction of the story. Ralph hopes to stay in the game hall and live happily with Winelop, but Winelop wants to explore the outside world more. Therefore, the protagonist’s worldview conflicts and friendship crises. And in solving the problem of the game controller, new troubles have appeared again and again. It leads to the invasion of Internet viruses,

Act 4: With the help of their friend Miss Shine, they earn enough money to buy back the game controller to repair the game, and with their cooperation, they solve the virus crisis. The misunderstanding was cleared.

Act 5: This is the end of the story. The other Disney characters also came to help Winelop and Ralph. After the crisis was lifted, they understood the real friendship and respected each other’s choice. One returned to the game room, and the other continued to explore the vast world.

Role archetypes

1. Ralph

The hero, Ralph Wong, lives in a 1980s video game Fix-It Felix. His identity is everyday in the game of good people apartment destroyed, reckless, but kind-hearted, is the heroine Winelop’s good friend, in his heart friendship is the most important.

Ralph’s image is represented by two big fists, which shows his great destructive power. He has thick eyebrows and round nose, which makes the whole character look silly. His clothes are checked with belt trousers, which makes him very casual. His hair is straight and he feels very impetuous, which echoes his own rash personality characteristics.

2. Winelop

The heroine of this film is the racing driver of Sweet Sprint, full of vitality and ghosts and horses. Because it is a bug, the quality of the picture is unstable, and it is excluded by other characters. Her game broke down due to the loss of a component. In order to find the lost component, she and Ralph embarked on an adventure in the Internet world, and were attracted by the racing game rage in the Internet world, hoping to stay in the Internet world.

Winnie Lope has big eyes, her bathrobe and skirt are full of vitality and loveliness. She wears a high ponytail and a red bow rope. These are all signs of her outgoing and cheerful personality. Her head is decorated with candy, which shows her identity from the game of sweet sprint.

3.Miss Shine

Mentor. Racer in the Internet world. Although seemingly unsmiling, they quickly became good friends after competing with Winnie Lope, a racing driver. After knowing the purpose of winelop and Ralph coming to the Internet, she recommended Miss yesss  to winelop.

Week02 Color performance of Disney animation

Talking about Disney, we will think of many vivid and interesting stories and images. Any classic Disney animation, are inseparable from the unique color style of Disney. From the original black and white color Mickey Mouse, to Snow White in a red and blue dress, to Buzz Lightyear with purple and green space suits, whenever we mention this animated image, as if the animated protagonist has formed an image in the brain, and their color combination is still fresh in our minds. So how does Disney make these changing colors together in a harmonious form? And, a specific style is formed in the hue, whenever we see this hue will remind us of the Disney style. This is the topic I want to explore.

We can feel a lot of natural colors from Disney animation, which is the reason why Disney’s color style is so comfortable and friendly. For example, Frozen draws on a lot of realistic nature’s colors to show the symbols of the four seasons in the film.

But completely copy the reality is uninteresting, to make the picture becomes interesting, you need to add some contrasting colors, which is also Disney’s common color scheme, the use of warm and cold contrast, so that the picture to achieve a dreamy atmosphere.

Keywords：Disney animation；Color Performance；The role of color；The relationship between color and emotion；Color Style

Week01 About the topics that interest me

The course in the first week introduces what is a critical topic, how to choose a critical topic, and how to modify the topic in depth.

And introduced suggestions on researching topic：

a) Primary or original sources. These could be a mediaeval manuscript, a poem, a photograph, the records of an institution, a dress, an interview…

b) Secondary or interpretative sources i.e. papers/articles/books written about a subject.

It also describes several ways to find literature, books and materials：

LCC Library & Finding E-Books Guide Helped me a lot in finding information！

Next are a few topics that interest me：

  1. Virtual reality based 3D animation space design
  2. A research on the transformation of ethnic styles in Chinese animation
  3. Research on 3D Animation Technology for Cultural Heritage Conservation and Delivery