My Animation Era

The "Super Beast Arms" project team did not have many people at first, and only Dimension Studio participated in the production.

This is Huang Kun's arrangement.

In his words, since "Super Beast Arms" is a 3D animation, let Dimension Studio, which specializes in 3D, do it, and other studios don't have to get involved.

The idea was correct, but there were still problems during the implementation.

There are not enough writers!

The essence of the work "Super Beast Arms" is undoubtedly the plot and lines. Dimension Studio simply cannot meet the manpower required for this part.

To this end, after consulting the majority of people, Huang Kun urgently seconded many key screenwriters from other studios to join the animation production team of "Super Beast Arms".

This time it's "Galactic Battleship"!

The writing team of the animation "Super Beast Arms" can be regarded as the most luxurious and largest all-star lineup since the establishment of Wanbao Animation.

The leaders are Huang Kun and Gu Miao.

Then there is a long list of super luxurious screenwriters consisting of more than 20 people. This long list of names of screenwriters will probably scare many people when the subtitles at the end of the animation are displayed.

It feels numb!

With so many screenwriters involved, what exactly does Wanbao want to do? Should one person write an episode or one person write a line?

"Sounds outrageous..."

"However, there is a reason for the establishment of this luxurious writing team." Gu Miao explained to his apprentice, "When writing the script of the animation "Super Beast Arms", we adopted a multi-character and multi-line method."

"What's the meaning?"

Guo Hongwei didn't quite understand. What is multi-character and multi-line series?

"It means that the screenwriters are all assigned their own roles. For example, screenwriter A is responsible for Huo Linfei, screenwriter B is responsible for Long Jian, and screenwriter C is responsible for Slim Jun..."

Gu Miao explained: "Suppose there is a plot involving the interaction between super beast warriors. OK! Then the screenwriters corresponding to each character will cooperate in series, and everyone will do their own thing at other times."

It's cumbersome to explain.

But in actual operation, this method is actually "splitting and stripping".

You are responsible for your part, and I am responsible for mine, and then we will collaborate to write the "concatenated" part according to the director's needs.

"I generally understand."

Guo Hongwei asked thoughtfully: "But what is the use of such an allocation and the participation of so many people?"

A waste of manpower?

He was embarrassed to say this, but after listening to the master's description, he really felt that doing so was a bit unnecessary.

A problem that can obviously be solved by the cooperation of three or four screenwriters, but more than twenty people have to be gathered together. Do you think this is a dungeon to start a group to fight the boss?

"There's an advantage to this!"

Gu Miao knew what his apprentice wanted to say and said with a smile: "You think it is a waste of manpower, but Huang Kun and I feel that this can ensure that the character will not collapse to the greatest extent."

Are three or four screenwriters enough?

There is nothing wrong with this. Indeed, three or four screenwriters are enough. After all, there were only three screenwriters in the original "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" animation of more than 500 episodes.

But that’s a unit animation drama!

Long-running continuous cartoons like "Super Beast Arms", especially cartoons with "plot and character design" as their core selling point, cannot do this.

"A screenwriter writes part of it, and then splices it together. A screenwriter writes one character, and then connects the plot lines with other characters."

Gu Miao asked: "Of these two methods, at first glance, the latter seems to be time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the former saves time and manpower."

"But in the former method, there is often the problem of character breakdown, because different screenwriters have different understandings of the same character."

Shakespeare said that for a thousand readers there are a thousand Hamlets.

There is also an old saying in China that is widely circulated, benevolence sees kindness, and wisdom sees wisdom!

For the same fictional character, his image in the minds of different screenwriters will be different.

There is a common saying in the anime circle that "screenwriters backstab"!

This is where the saying about the screenwriter backstabbing comes from. Screenwriter A thinks that the protagonist should be a very gentle and considerate person, and should act like an Asasi.

But after a new screenwriter B was replaced, screenwriter B felt that as a savior, he should put his family, country and world first, and be more decisive in doing things.

These two screenwriters, if one of them writes an episode or one of them writes a plot, what will be the result of the filming?

The characters collapsed and the plot fell apart.

It is precisely because "Super Beast Arms" is an animation that focuses on plot and character design. In order to avoid similar situations, a separate screenwriter is assigned to each character.

"I see, I've learned a lesson."

After hearing these words, Guo Hongwei finally understood that "Super Beast Arms" will have more than 20 screenwriters.

"Then for the second season of "That Rabbit That Year" that I filmed, can we also form a luxurious team of writers?"

"No, no!"

Gu Miao decisively objected: "Although Natu is also an animation focusing on the plot, there is no need to worry about the character design."

It comes down to it.

Natu is not a "continuous animated drama" in the traditional sense, but a "unit animated drama" similar to Pleasant Goat.

Every episode is a brand new story, so where does the idea of ​​character collapse come from?

Of course, this is not the main reason.

Even if Natu is not an animated series and there is no need to worry about character design, this method can actually be used.

The main reason why Gu Miao refused was that Wanbao Animation really couldn't squeeze out so many screenwriters.

Battleship Galactica, right?

Star screenwriters are not big cabbage, how can it be so easy to assemble a second team of screenwriters of the same level?

"All right……"

After the dream of building a Galaxy Battleship was shattered, Guo Hongwei said with a little regret: "As the captain of the Galaxy Battleship, master, can you give us some advice on the second season of That Rabbit?"

Stop serving tea and pouring water all day long!

He was a scout, but Gu Sanshui was so good that he transformed into a "tea-server".

As the honorary assistant director of the second season of Natu, Guo Hongwei couldn't stand it when he was still trying to fish out the production of the second season of the animation, which was almost coming to an end.

We don’t expect him to do any dirty work, but we can always make suggestions, right?

"Give me a suggestion?"

Gu Miao scratched her butt, tilted her head and thought for a while and said, "Everything is quite normal. If there is anything wrong, it should be the time when I was a guest at Ying's house..."

"oh?"

After hearing this, Guo Hongwei suddenly became interested. He quickly ran to the computer, opened the previously produced animation materials and observed carefully.

"Look here..."

Gu Miao pressed the space bar to pause the clip being broadcast, then pointed at the screen and said: "This contrast is not strong enough! The audience may have thought that the Eagle Sauce of that year was nothing more than this!"

But the fact is...

That year's Eagle Sauce was indeed extremely rich and powerful compared to the poor Rabbit.