My Animation Era

The day before New Year's Eve, the news that "Tom and Jerry" won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film quickly spread across the country.

Major media outlets have reported on it.

This breaking news also sparked a heated discussion on the Internet.

In addition to congratulating Wanbao and being proud of Wanbao, netizens are also discussing the reasons why "Tom and Jerry" is so great.

Not to mention...

Under netizens' frame-by-frame analysis, they really unearthed many details from the first episode of "Tom and Jerry" that they had previously ignored.

There is a question that is very popular.

[What do you think about the first episode of "Tom and Jerry" winning the Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards? 】

There were thousands of new answers to this question in just one day, and the answer with the most likes came from a senior animator.

In his answer, he carefully analyzed the small details in the first episode of "Tom and Jerry" that were easily overlooked by the audience.

For example, Tom's hair.

The animator said that as a common pet, "cats" are frequently seen in major animation works.

But there are few animations that can portray Tom as vividly and vividly as in "Tom and Jerry", and even details such as hair and beards are handled extremely perfectly.

And then there's the soundtrack.

In the first episode, Tom chases Jerry. This exciting chase scene uses a piece of classical music that fits the atmosphere.

And this piece of music can usually only be heard at concerts...

The analysis of Gao Zan's answer instantly shocked many viewers who didn't know the truth.

Before this, they only thought "Tom and Jerry" was very exciting and interesting. But no one noticed that "Tom and Jerry" actually did such a good job in details.

Even the soundtrack is so classy and elegant!

No wonder it won an Oscar! The details are so well done, it would be a joke if you still can’t win an Oscar, right?

Of course, Gu Miao also saw these comments and the voices praising "Tom and Jerry".

only……

His attitude was very disdainful.

Maybe this is the so-called, when you succeed, your farts will also taste good!

It’s not that Tom and Jerry isn’t good enough to deserve the praise and adulation. It's just that these people didn't say a word before, but when "Tom and Jerry" won the award, they jumped out and boasted. It's really disgusting.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, Gu Miao's plan came true. With the popularity and traffic of the Oscar-winning movie, he successfully made everyone remember "Tom and Jerry".

The second episode will be aired soon.

According to Dave, with the efforts of him and his team, the second episode of the animated "Tom and Jerry" is nearing completion and will be broadcast after the year.

Gu Miao was looking forward to it.

Before this, he had watched the clips of the second episode "Midnight Snack" and was full of confidence in the performance of this episode.

The story of the second episode is quite simple. Jerry steals cheese at midnight and is discovered by Tom.

Then Tom played with Jerry and asked him to put the cheese in the refrigerator, but he opened the refrigerator and ate it. As a result, he was discovered by the owner, and the clever Tom chose to pass the blame to Jerry.

Jerry was not willing to give in. A cat and a mouse fought in the kitchen for several rounds, leaving the kitchen in a mess...

The plot of this episode is actually simpler than the first episode.

But this episode definitely left a deeper impression on Gu Miao than the first episode. Especially the original version, it just made me laugh and then fell silent.

Why?

Because the original "Tom and Jerry" was born in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the animation, the refrigerator is filled with various cheeses, sausages, hams, jelly...

That was eighty years ago!

Sometimes you really can’t think about it carefully when watching animation, because the more you think about it, the easier it is to realize the cruelty of reality.

That aside, this episode also gave Tom and Jerry its cheese-loving character Jerry.

Cheese is an old supporting role!

Cheese can be seen in many classic episodes of "Tom and Jerry". As a mouse, Jerry especially likes cheese, which has formed a stereotype.

This directly leads to the fact that whenever Gu Miao thinks of mice, she will think of Jerry, and when she thinks of Jerry, she will think of cheese...

It's different from the first episode.

Starting from the second episode, "Tom and Jerry" has adopted a broadcasting strategy of "online updates" as the mainstay, supplemented by television broadcasts.

This is mainly because the current number of animated series of "Tom and Jerry" is so small that it is difficult for TV stations to buy them back and even schedule them.

So Gu Miao decided to broadcast the animation on the Wanbao Video website starting from the second episode "Midnight Snack".

When will it be broadcast?

This continued until the number of episodes of "Tom and Jerry" was about 20-30, and then the copyrights were packaged and transferred to TV platforms.

"Then it can't be twenty or thirty years?"

Lao Zhang wondered: "With the current production speed of "Tom and Jerry", if you want to make 20 episodes, it will take at least ten years, right?"

"How is that possible!" Gu Miao shook her head, "The production started slowly. That's because designing and drawing scene characters will waste a lot of time and energy."

"If you go back and do a few more episodes, once you have accumulated enough materials and experience, the production progress will become faster."

These are also Dave's exact words.

In the beginning, it did take a lot of effort to reconstruct the scenes and characters. But the further you go, the smoother and faster it becomes.

The first episode took half a year, and the second episode took two and a half months. This is already a huge improvement!

At a later stage, it may only take half a month or even a week to make an episode of "Tom and Jerry".

The time limit given by Gu Miao to "sharpen a sword in three years" is not to ask Dave to "sharpen one episode in three years", but to spend three years polishing a complete animation work.

"Actually, to be honest..."

"I'm not too worried about Tom and Jerry. After all, Dave, an eight-time Oscar winner, is in charge. On the contrary, I'm even more worried about the movie Tom and Jerry."

Lao Zhang understood and said: "Are you worried about poor box office results?"

"We have a strong rival this year!"

Gu Miao said with a headache: "We didn't meet any decent opponents during the Spring Festival in the past two years. But this year there are several blockbusters, and the schedule is probably occupied."

As everyone knows.

If a movie wants to achieve good results and get high box office, it must ensure the health of two data, one is the attendance rate and the other is the film scheduling rate.

Gu Miao is not worried about the attendance rate.

"Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" is a major movie in history and generally has a high attendance rate. Parents who take their children to the movies buy two or three tickets at a time.

But the film scheduling rate is really uncontrollable.

It's okay to say that there are no strong rivals in the same period. As long as the theater chains are not blind, they will always increase the scheduling rate of films with high attendance.

But if a blockbuster movie is released at the same time, or an absolute dark horse appears, the film schedule will be overwhelmed, and there will be no results.