醒狮 Original

Introduction to *Awakening Lion* (Content & AI Creation Statement)
1. Work Content Overview
*Awakening Lion* is a 120-second cyberpunk Lingnan-style 3D animated short film themed on traditional culture reviving a tech-alienated futuristic city, set in rainy-night Guangzhou of 2077. The whole piece adopts a cold gray-blue-purple color palette, with the red-and-gold southern lion as the sole warm visual highlight. It integrates traditional high-pole lion dance stunts with skyscrapers, carrying the core spirit "Stand on buildings as poles, awaken the mortal world".

The narrative unfolds in progressive emotional layers: opening with the dreary, lifeless cyber city in rain, then showing the southern lion dashing through towers with authentic lion dance moves including patrolling steps, cross-building leaps, shaking rain off its fur and ball-catching climax. Driven by heavy southern lion drumbeats, the sound builds up from low muffled thumps to the grand roar of thousands of drums before a sharp closing strike. The film constructs a three-layer narrative of city, technology and lion spirit, illustrating how intangible cultural heritage heals the numbness brought by digital civilization. Consistent visual standards are applied across all shots: matte red-gold lion costumes with gilded embroidery, warm LED lion eyes, rain puddle reflections and Tyndall effects of rain streaks, adopting cinematic 24fps shooting without redundant characters or overexposed highlights.

2. Full AI Toolchain Creation Statement
The short film is entirely produced via a complete AIGC pipeline divided into four standardized phases:
Phase 1: Prompt Polishing & Script Writing
GPT-4o frames the overall structure, standardizes camera parameters and composes segmented drum rhythm logic; Doubao 4.0 refines Lingnan rain scene physical details, breaks down traditional lion dance movements and customizes exclusive prompts for video generation tools. Three sets of standardized prompt templates are delivered for storyboards, soundtrack and dynamic footage. The score solely relies on deep, heavy southern lion drums with rich low-frequency bass, excluding bright tones, light melodies and fancy electronic sounds.

Phase 2: Concept Storyboard Generation
Wen-image tools (Jimeng / Midjourney) generate 17 storyboards in sequence with unified English base prompts for cyberpunk rainy Guangzhou. Fixed seed values are used to generate multiple variants for optimal composition selection, with partial redrawing to fix defects like distorted lion claws. All frames are cropped to a uniform 16:9 1920×1080 aspect ratio, with consistent rain density, neon brightness and color saturation maintained.

Phase 3: Dynamic Video Production with Seedance2.0
All clips are rendered at 1080P resolution and 24fps. Motion intensity is adjusted separately for leaping shots (0.8) and close-ups (0.5). Reference storyboard images are imported with motion alignment enabled to lock the lion’s body position. Camera micro-shakes are added when the lion lands, and all movements are precisely synced to drum beats to avoid floating, stiff motion. Watermark-free MP4 footage is exported by shot number.

Phase 4: Post-production & Final Rendering on Libtv
A 120-second project is initialized with unified resolution and frame rate. Footage is spliced in storyboard order, with hard-cut transitions (0.2s) and a soft fade-in for the ball-catching climax. Global color grading unifies cold blue-purple tones and accentuates the red-gold lion, with universal rain texture and subtle film grain overlaid. The heavy lion drum track serves as the primary audio layer, mixed with ambient rain and metal impact sounds, supported by Dolby Atmos 360° surround reverb. The closing subtitle "Stand on buildings as poles, awaken the mortal world" appears at the 117th second, and the final film is exported in H.265 encoding at 10 Mbps bitrate.