My Animation Era

  Chapter 337 Online meeting (seeking subscription)

  Fans are a double-edged sword.

  The advantage is that the harvest is guaranteed in drought and flood, as long as the diehard fans are satisfied, then there is no need to worry about making money. The shortcomings are also obvious, if the diehard fans are not satisfied, then send it.

  Gu Miao has no choice.

  Fans should be fans, after all, it is the first animation film, the main thing is to accumulate experience, and then jump out of the framework of fans in the future.

  Movie production is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

  Especially the 2D animated film "Snake Comes Around", with some 3D shots mixed in, it is more troublesome to make.

Do not misunderstand!

   Gu Miao doesn't think the progress is slow, he just thinks the production process is cumbersome, and there are too many details that need to be refined, which is too brain-intensive.

   Give a simple example.

  In the movie "Snake Comes Around", there are many new scenes that have never appeared in TV animation, including the Yangcun Library.

  OK!

  It’s just a new scene, let’s draw!

   But for this simple library scene, do you know how many lines you need to draw?

  The answer is, hundreds of them!

  Because animated films are different from TV animations, we must strive for excellence in details. So even if it is a 30-second scene, it takes a lot of time to refine and ponder.

   What does the library door look like?

   What books are on the shelves?

  What decoration should be used for the roof, floor and walls of the library?

   Then five views!

  When it comes to "five views", many people may be confused. But this is actually a key step in the design of character modeling in the animation production process.

   Of course, scene design is also useful.

  The so-called five views refer to images of scenes, characters or props from five different perspectives. The five viewing angles are main view, top view, left view, right view and rear view.

What?

  There are left, rear and right, why not front?

  Because the front view, that is, the front view, is generally called the main view, or "front view" according to geometry.

  The whole process is tedious and boring...

  Many anime fans probably feel that the process of making animation is a very easy and enjoyable thing.

   But it's not.

  Maybe at the beginning, at the beginning of the project planning, everyone had a great "creative passion" for this project. At this stage, everyone is really enthusiastic and lively.

   But over time.

  During months or even years, the long, boring and tedious work will exhaust this creative passion, and what remains is a sense of "tiredness".

   This is very common in the field of artistic creation.

  Taking novel creation as an example, the author came up with a good idea, for example, the protagonist obtained the Shenhao system, and jumped from a bottom-level youth to a winner in life...

  When I first started creating, the kind of creative passion should not be too surging! When writing exciting plots, I will also get excited, wishing to spend 24 hours a day in front of the computer and type.

   Available over time.

  When this novel is serialized to 500,000 words, 1 million words, or even longer. When the creative passion fades away, it enters the "torture stage".

  A cup of tea, a pack of cigarettes, 2000 words a day!

Why is that?

  Because of the original creative passion, time has been exhausted. As I wrote and wrote, my own people became numb.

  The same goes for animation creation.

  This problem was not particularly obvious in other projects before. Because other projects will be finished in half a year at most, and it hasn't been delayed for too long.

  But the project of the movie "Snake Comes Around" has lasted for almost a year. For everyone in the production team, this is an extremely long time.

   The first few months.

   When Gu Miao called for a meeting to discuss some plot development, story line and character setting, everyone was still very enthusiastic, and the discussion was extremely intense.

  How are you doing now...

  During the meeting, everyone hangs their heads, you stare at the ceiling in a daze, he is counting the teacups on the table, and he is not energetic anyway.

  How can this work?

  Gu Miao understands that the main reason why everyone has become like this is that they have lost their original enthusiasm for creation and their spirit has become numb.

  If we want to change this "dead" status quo, we must regain everyone's enthusiasm for the "Snakes Come and Go" project.

   The question is, how to do it?

  Gu Miao thought of many ways, such as giving everyone a holiday, going to the screening room to watch the animation of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" together to relax.

  Play small games, Cosplay...

  Trying all kinds of methods, everyone still has no enthusiasm. Just when Gu Miao was feeling at a loss for this, Ma Kui who was passing by made a suggestion.

   "To be honest, these methods are useless! If you want to arouse everyone's creative enthusiasm, you have to get them out of the office and communicate with fans face to face..."

   "Let the fans motivate everyone?"

  Hearing this suggestion, Gu Miao's eyes lit up.

   I have to say that Ma Kui made a good suggestion. Let the fans who are looking forward to this movie come to inject passion and motivation into the tired production team, it's amazing!

  But, how to do it?

   "Hold a meeting! If the time is not easy to arrange, then put it on the Internet! Have a face-to-face exchange and questioning session similar to a webcast."

   "Okay, listen to you!"

   Gu Miao made a final decision.

  Ma Kui's proposal was very constructive. Gu Miao, who felt that this method was feasible, quickly found the operation and maintenance personnel of Wanbao Video and Wanbao official website.

soon…

  Wanbao’s official website, Wanbao Video and LIVE all put up promotional posters, indicating that the production team of the movie "Snake Comes Around" will hold an online live meeting at 8:00 p.m. on August 8th.

  At that time, a batch of high-quality questions will be selected in the live broadcast room, and the production team will answer them.

  At the same time, there will be a few lucky viewers who will get the opportunity to "connect with the mic" and talk about their thoughts and suggestions to the production team.

  The live broadcast room will also draw lucky viewers to get a gift pack of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" clay dolls from Wanbao Animation.

   "Action is worse than heartbeat!"

   "My name is Gu Sanshui, and I'll be waiting for you in the live broadcast room. If you're a brother, watch my live broadcast! See you there at 8 pm on August 8!"

   Good guy!

  In order to attract as many fans as possible to pay attention to this matter, Gu Miao, who has always been low-key and introverted, also took part in the battle in person this time, which was extremely rare, and made an embarrassing promotional video.

   Not to mention...

   Gu Sanshui deserves to be Gu Sanshui, the status of the only top producer of domestic animation is indeed unshakable.

  As soon as the video was released, both Sanshui powder and Sanshui black attracted people.

   Fans want to know more about the inside story of the "Snake Comes Around" project, as well as the progress of film production, and even want to prostitute clay dolls for free.

  The black fan wants to take the opportunity to take a chance, and then criticizes Gu Maggot severely, and finally puts down a sentence: "Gu Sanshui, you are a ****, don't let me see you on Jiangchuan Street!"

  Whether you are black or not, everyone is very interested in this very special "online meeting".

  (end of this chapter)