My Animation Era

Most domestic animations are 3D.

As the mainstream choice of domestic animation today, animations adapted from web texts are naturally mostly 3D, with few 2D productions.

There must be some...

But this kind of 2D production is more used in modern backgrounds, and the story themes are funny animations close to light novels.

Popular themes such as fantasy and fairy tales are 90% produced in 3D.

Why is this so?

On the one hand, 3D production has become a mainstream choice, probably because the strength and main development direction of domestic animation lies in the 3D field, which is what everyone is best at.

On the other hand, the savings in 3D animation are also the main reason why most animation production companies choose 3D.

Take character modeling as an example.

As long as a character is modeled well, the animation can be used for dozens or even hundreds of episodes in the future. This will undoubtedly save a lot of time and energy for a long-form online literary reform project.

and.

These domestic animation companies have basically grasped the preferences and tastes of the audience, know what they want to see, and know what their strengths are.

Ever since, each and every female character as beautiful as a fairy was born...

"To put it harshly, there are only two main points of animation adapted from online novels. One is the plot of the novel, and the other is to satisfy the audience's fantasy of a two-dimensional wife."

Gu Miao tapped her fingers on the solid wood tabletop with a solemn expression: "If you do these two things well, even if the overall production is a mess, there will still be many viewers paying for it."

"That's right!"

Chen Hu agreed with it.

This is indeed a strange image of today's Internet text-to-animation. The importance of character modeling has been infinitely elevated. The female characters in the original novel are modeled more voluptuously than the last.

Each one has less fabric than the other, giving the impression that this kind of character is not designed to serve the plot, but simply to sell meat and please certain specific groups...

That’s weird!

Son-in-law Fairy King is not a mainstream 3D production, which means that there is no so-called roast chicken character modeling in the animation, and there are not even a few female characters.

Then here comes the problem.

Audiences who like to watch animated adaptations of online articles mostly like the sexy 3D female character modeling. Will they like this kind of 2D drama-oriented adaptation?

"This is what I'm most worried about!" Chen Hu rubbed his brows and said with a helpless expression, "The original novel "The Son-in-law Immortal King" only has one female protagonist, not as many as other novels, and the female protagonist's presence is almost none!"

"..."

Gu Miao also frowned.

This is indeed a big question, after all, novels and animations are different.

In novels, it is enough to show off and slap in the face so that everyone can enjoy it. Whether there is a heroine or not is not important. Readers even wish that the heroine's role would be reduced. It is best to appear once and then be heard from nothing.

But animation cannot do this.

Because nine out of ten viewers who watch animation, especially young male viewers, have the idea of ​​"finding a wife."

Even if the number of female characters in your animation is small, the number of scenes is still small? So where can you find your second-dimensional wife?

"never mind!"

"If you have a single female lead, just have a single female lead. No one stipulates that you have to have a harem."

Gu Miao sighed: "As for the problem of the heroine having too few scenes and not having a high sense of presence, we will say that she is loyal to the original work. Fans of the original work will help us defend it."

Maybe this kind of adaptation is not very friendly to casual audiences, but for fans who have read the original novel of The Son-in-law and the Immortal King, it is definitely a great restoration and a great conscience!

what?

That’s how the original work was written. You think it’s not good? Do you think so?

…

As time goes by, the movie "Wolf Warrior 2" has become a new social phenomenon.

Take Gu Miao as an example.

Even those friends around me who don't like to watch movies, or who don't usually have time to watch movies, have heard about "Wolf Warrior 2" and took the time to watch it.

This is quite a scary thing.

After all, these people, to put it bluntly, are the people who don’t watch movies, let alone go to the cinema.

But this summer, "Wolf Warrior 2" successfully brought this group of people into the cinema and tried to buy movie tickets for the first time in many years. This is indeed an amazing achievement.

Gu Miao didn't know whether others were convinced or not, but he admired him quite a bit.

After all, he couldn't do that.

Forget about him, there are so many people in Wanbao Animation, and no one can do the same thing.

No wonder the box office is so high!

Even people who don't usually go to the movies were lured into the cinema and asked by name to watch "Wolf Warrior 2". Under this premise, a box office of several billion is simply not normal.

But then again...

Fortunately, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has been released. If it had continued to be shown in theaters, I don't know how the film schedule would have been compressed.

Anyway, as far as Gu Miao knows, the movie theater in Jiangchuan Animation Industrial Park has a schedule of "Wolf Warrior 2" from morning to night. Want to watch other movies? Sorry, there is no show!

This cannot be said to be a crushing.

Other new films released at the same time completely disappeared under the suppression of "Wolf Warrior 2" before they even had time to meet the audience.

Gu Miao is not only grateful that "The Bear Soldier" was released early and was not affected by AOE damage, but she is also full of expectations for the subsequent box office trend of "Wolf Warrior 2" and wants to know whether this film will eventually break the Original record.

As it stands now.

This version of Wolf Warrior 2 may have a box office of more than 5 billion, and there is great hope of exceeding 6 billion. As for 7 billion... it is not impossible!

Just as Gu Miao was cracking melon seeds and observing changes in the box office trends of summer vacation movies, Xiao Ke came.

Xiao Ke, the Go world champion who had just finished participating in the competition and won the top eight, was warmly welcomed by Gu Miao and joined the recently established animation production team of "Go Boy".

It’s not just Xiao Ke.

Like him, another chess player who received an invitation from Wanbao to provide professional guidance for "Go Youth" is Liu Lao, a professional ninth-dan player.

One old and one young, representing the past and present of the Go world respectively, and jointly serve as professional consultants for "Go Youth".

The reason for this combination is very simple.

Although Xiao Ke is the world champion and the nominal No. 1 player in the world of Go, he is still at his age. High chess skills do not mean he knows more.

Although Mr. Liu is getting older and his chess skills have declined significantly compared to his peak period, he was born into a Go family and has been playing chess since his great-great-grandfather's generation. He knows more about Go than Xiao Ke, especially the history.

The two have a clear division of labor.

Xiao Ke is the three-dimensional incarnation of Jiang Liu'er. He will provide the animation production team with the most suitable chess records based on Mr. Liu's opinions.

Mr. Liu is responsible for providing some secret and unpopular information about the Go world in the late Ming Dynasty, and also checking the plot to see if there are any omissions or errors.

Is Jiang Liuer a fictional character?

Yes!

Not just Jiang Liuer, most of the famous chess players in the animation "Go Boy" are fictional characters.

But these characters are not completely original, but refer to some historical celebrities in the Go world.

Jiang Liuer does not exist in history.

But in the late Ming Dynasty, there was indeed a 15-year-old young player with the same surname Jiang in the domestic Go community who was famous locally.

This is what Mr. Liu told Gu Miao.

Gu Miao was very surprised when he learned about it. He thought Jiang Liu'er was just an original character in the animation, but he didn't expect that there was a real-life prototype.

In fact, Mr. Liu was also surprised.

When he saw the project "Go Boy", he thought that Gu Miao was adapting it based on the chess player's experience, but he never expected that Gu Miao didn't know the chess player from the late Ming Dynasty at all.

This time I was embarrassed.

Gu Miao couldn't tell Mr. Liu the truth, so he could only fool him with an idea provided by a screenwriter from Wanbao, not a project written by him.

Fortunately, Mr. Liu didn't go into details. He just used this topic to give Gu Miao a brief introduction to the chess player named Jiang who lived in the late Ming Dynasty.

Xiao Ke also joined in.

Although he is young and does not know much about these things, he has also studied many ancient chess records, so he is not completely ignorant.

While we were chatting, it got dark.

As a host, Gu Miao ordered a table of Jiangchuan specialties to entertain the two of them.

At the dinner table, Xiao Ke asked Gu Miao a very critical question, which was the direction of the chess game.

"Jiang Liuer lived in the late Ming Dynasty, and the chess he played must be ancient chess. When it comes to the choice of chess records, I prefer famous games." Gu Miao said thoughtfully.

This is also the most criticized point of the previous "Go Boy" animation, that is, the selection of game records is not very good.

On the other hand, in the game "Soul of Chess" next door, most of the games selected are famous games.

Although some people have complained and insinuated that "Chess Soul" is suspected of abusing famous games, after all, it is a famous game casually, which is too outrageous.

But one thing that must be admitted is that the reason why the famous game is a famous game is that it is indeed better than the regular chess game in terms of the chess game viewing and the beauty of the chess shape.

certainly!

This is for professionalism.

For ordinary viewers, they can't understand Go anyway. Regular chess records and famous games are no different to them. It would be better to use terms such as the unity of heaven and earth to make children happy.

This is also something Gu Miao has considered.

To put it simply, there must be famous games, but they cannot be abused like in "Soul of Chess". At least there is no such thing as just finding someone to play a famous game.

Secondly!

"Go Boy" is a cartoon, not a so-called documentary. Appropriate artistic processing is inevitable and cannot be completely true.

"Not entirely true?"

Xiao Ke and Mr. Liu looked at each other and understood Gu Miao's thoughts.

If the Go animation is to be exciting and beautiful, it will inevitably add some other elements to it. If it is just Go, children may become sleepy after watching it for just a few minutes.

"So what do you think?"

"Trick!"

Gu Miao said with a smile: "I hope you can tailor one or more unique moves for the protagonist."

"This kind of trick can be a certain formula, or it can be a special way of playing or solving chess. In short, the principle does not matter, the key is to have a cool name."

God's hand is too conservative.

What a mundane but good master, it sounds very boring. It is too technical terminology for children to popularize science. It is secondary that they can’t understand it. The main reason is that they are not handsome enough to be a middle school student!

I really need some tricks.

Although these tricks are essentially Go formulas or special moves that everyone can use, children don't understand Go and they just need to look cool and handsome.

"I generally understand."

Although Xiao Ke has won many world championships, he is actually not that old, nearly ten years younger than Gu Miao.

Precisely because of his young age and frequent surfing on the Internet, he was able to follow Gu Miao's thoughts and understand his thoughts.

As for Mr. Liu...

He still hasn't figured it out yet. This is the first time in his life that he heard that there are so-called unique tricks in Go.

This is too abstract!

When he heard Gu Miao say that when Jiang Liuer played chess, whirlpools and air currents would appear on the chessboard, the chess pieces would emit a dazzling golden light, and two dragons, one black and one white, would fight fiercely over the chessboard, Mr. Liu was stunned.

What the hell?

Since when did chess have so many special effects? This is too fancy!

There was also the story of killing people in chess, and the player vomiting blood immediately after the dragon was slaughtered, which made him feel that he was really old and could no longer keep up with the way of thinking of today's young people.

Mr. Liu muttered to himself that Gu Miao didn't know.

Because he found that Xiao Ke seemed to be very interested in the glowing Go chess piece, and pulled him to discuss various special effects for playing chess.

"If you don't shine when you play chess, is it still called playing chess?"

Gu Miao winked and said, "This is just like the egg fried rice made by the little master. If it doesn't glow, can it still be eaten?"

"That makes sense."

Xiao Ke deeply agreed: "I can't shine even when I play chess. I, the world champion, am a joke. I feel inferior to...Jiang Liu'er."

"Hahaha!"

His self-joking made Mr. Liu and Gu Miao laugh out loud.

You kid is so awkward, right?

Being a world champion is no joke. After all, the times are developing and Go is constantly improving. No matter how amazing Jiang Liuer is in the animation, it is difficult to defeat Xiao Ke in reality.

This is not a boast, but a fact.

Ever since AI ended the game of Go, the current game of Go has changed drastically. No matter how amazing Jiang Liuer is, he may not be able to beat amateur players now.

After all, no matter how amateur he is, he has learned a few tricks from AI. Jiang Liuer, who has never encountered such a thing, is bound to overturn.

"AI..."

When talking about whether Jiang Liu'er can achieve greater glory now, the three of them all thought of the shadow that now hangs over the entire Go world - AI!

This thing can no longer be defeated by human power.

Cheating is also a big deal. After all, your cheating may not be as high as AlphaGo's computing power.

Unless you use something particularly aggressive, such as having a super smart brain inside your head, using magic to defeat magic, the AI ​​will also have a taste of being beaten.

"So, our animation is still too conservative!"

Gu Miao shook his head: "What kind of chess saint is Jiang Liu'er? A true chess saint, who can single-handedly suppress the entire chess world, must be an Alpha Dog!"

Be reasonable.

If it weren't for the rationality, Gu Miao would have wanted Jiang Liu'er to go away and replace him with AlphaGo as the protagonist of the animation.

After all, how powerful AlphaGo is! Being invincible and suppressing the entire chess world by himself, isn't this much more powerful than Jiang Liu'er?

Unfortunately……

The idea of ​​letting AlphaGo appear in the late Ming Dynasty and then play Go is still too bold and abstract.

If he had a hundred courages, he wouldn't dare to act like this.

Sorry, it was raining heavily and I came back late without an umbrella.