My Animation Era

Gu Miao lay flat.

He finally understood that the movie "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Snake Comes Around" was too popular and highly anticipated.

Because of this expectation...

As a result, if the official releases any "clues", this group of fans who are waiting for food will swarm forward and speculate on the development of the plot based on these clues.

Don’t understand?

To give a simple example, "Black Myth: Wukong", a domestic stand-alone game, became popular all over the Internet as soon as it was exposed, and is highly anticipated by many gamers.

What happened then?

This group of eager players not only conducted a detailed frame-by-frame analysis of the game demo screen, but also searched for various "Easter eggs" and special designs.

Some people even dug out the Weibo of the creator of the game, or even previous works, and tried to speculate on the story background and plot development of "Black Myth: Wukong" from various angles.

so……

Wanbao Animation officially released the movie trailer of "Snake Comes Around", and it is not surprising that curious fans dug out the plot.

After all, movies are easier to guess than games.

The 1 minute and 05 second trailer, although in Gu Miao's opinion, does not reveal much about the content of the film, and does not even constitute a "spoiler".

But it can’t stand up to the audience, the per capita “Sherlock Holmes” detective!

Looking for clues and Easter eggs one by one, various inferences and conjectures, and the 1 minute and 05 second trailer, you can roughly figure out what story this movie wants to tell.

Spoilers are a given!

After thinking about this truth, Gu Miao completely calmed down and stopped caring about these "alleged spoilers" discussions on the Internet.

Just spoilers!

To be honest, except for a few well-known Hollywood blockbusters, when most of them released trailers, they were basically spoiled.

But why do people still go to see it?

The reason is actually very simple. After all, spoilers are just "text" expressions, and the actual impact is not as direct as the "pictures".

This is especially common in the field of animation.

There are many light novels, manga adaptations, and non-original animations. Fans who have read the original works, don’t they know the plot development route?

Nonsense!

The first episode of Spider-Man has just aired, and the heroine is still studying skills and panels. The barrage has already revealed that the heroine turns into a human later.

Did this affect Spiderzi’s playback volume? Not really! Everyone knows it, but before seeing the picture, there was still a certain sense of expectation.

…

Spoilers ahead of time certainly caused a lot of trouble for the project team of the movie "Snake Comes Around", but the work must continue.

Gu Miao can't just change the script temporarily because of spoilers and no sense of suspense and anticipation, right?

This kind of thing is impossible!

The success or failure of a movie, especially an animated movie, does not actually have a big impact on whether there are spoilers or not. Because humans are "visual animals", the visual impact is far greater than the visual impact.

"Snake Comes Around" is a 2D animation with some 3D shots mixed in.

Due to Gu Miao's request, most of the line drawings of characters, scenes and props were redrawn to clearly distinguish the movie from the TV animation, so the workload was huge.

As of early June.

The film is only a third of the way through production and is still far from completion. Considering the film production cycle, Gu Miao took time to visit the "Dimension" studio next door.

The project of "The Three Jelly Musketeers" has been approved.

Under the leadership of Gu Miao, this work, which is rarely known to the outside world, quietly completed the preliminary preparations.

Now there's a tough question.

Modeling!

As we all know, the core of 3D animation is modeling. The quality of modeling will directly determine the quality of the animation.

There is no need to give examples.

There are a lot of 3D animations with crappy modeling on the market. If you just pick one and look at it, you will know how expressive the rough 3D modeling is.

Since "The Three Jelly Musketeers" is also a 3D animation, Gu Miao had to personally control the modeling aspect.

"No, it doesn't have a jelly texture!"

After watching the first version of the 3D modeling of Cheng Liuxiang, Lu Xiaoguo and Pineapple Chuixue, Gu Miao shook her head.

The title is "Jelly Three Musketeers". The characters don't have the smooth and elastic texture of "jelly". Isn't it ridiculous?

"And here..."

Gu Miao pointed to the arm of Cheng Liuxiang's character model, frowned and asked, "Why did you pinch out the arm for a jelly man?"

"ah?"

The modeler thought that Mr. Gu would say that the arm he made was too thick, or too thin, and too lacking in aesthetics.

But he never expected it.

Mr. Gu actually asked him why he pinched the arm of a jelly man?

Yes, why?

"Isn't he a swordsman? I was thinking, even if he is a one-armed swordsman like the Condor Heroes, he still uses a hand-held sword!"

The modeler blinked and said: "The way the jelly man holds the sword, doesn't he use his hands? Does he use his energy to control the sword, or..."

"I know it's with a hand-held sword!"

Gu Miao waved her hand and said, "Whether it's a jelly man or a normal human being, he must be holding a sword. I'm asking about the arms. Do you understand the arms?"

arm?

The modeler stared at the character model in the computer, puzzled.

He pinches it very well! Even Director Du who was passing by praised him and said he was very "artistic". What went wrong?

"Okay, okay!"

Seeing that the modeler still didn't understand her words, Gu Miao covered her forehead and sighed: "Just listen to me and delete the part of Cheng Liuxiang's arm, leaving only a round hand."

"ah?!"

Now everyone was shocked.

Delete the arm part and leave only one hand? What outrageous operation is this? Can you still model Jiang Zi?

Isn't that hand "floating"?

Just thinking about that scene makes everyone stunned.

There is no arm support, just a pair of hands resting on the "floating" thing, posing in various poses. Isn't this really a horror movie?

If you don’t understand, you will not understand.

In view of Mr. Gu’s clear instructions, the modeler quickly made adjustments to the “Orange Fragrance” in the computer.

"Yeah! Make your hands a little rounder."

Gu Miao touched her chin and said, "The jelly man's hands are definitely different from us humans. You can ignore the fingers, but they must be round!"

"Yes, this is so cute!"

Seeing that Cheng Liuxiang on the computer had no arms, leaving only two small "ball"-like hands floating on both sides of the body, Gu Miao nodded.

But... cute?

The colleagues around him heard what Mr. Gu said and looked at the "weird" jelly man on the computer, and a question couldn't help but flash in their minds.

Cute is cute, but this...

Isn’t it too counter-intuitive?

No arms! Have you ever seen a jelly man with no arms, only hands, and the hands are two small balls?

It’s too abstract!

Is this art form a little too advanced for 21st century children?

In the Fruit Baby series, the character’s lack of arms is a huge cuteness point. If you don’t believe me, try thinking about it. Wouldn’t it be less cute if it had arms?