My Animation Era

"...I have noticed that there are twelve talismans in the animation setting, and each talisman has a unique magical power?"

"Yes!"

Gu Miao explained: "The inspiration for the design of these twelve talismans comes from the twelve zodiac signs. The origin of the whole story also unfolds with the plot of searching for the twelve zodiac signs."

"Would it be better to design the twelve talismans as regular twelve-sided shapes?" Huang Kun asked curiously.

Ah this...

Gu Miao picked up the planning document at hand, turned to the page of the twelve talismans, and looked down at it carefully.

The design in the plan is octagonal, and the front of each charm is engraved with zodiac animal patterns of different colors. This is the appearance he roughly restored based on the original design.

When restoring, he was busy drawing different zodiac patterns, but he never thought about the shape of the spell itself...

Octagon, dodecagon?

Both are "almost circular" patterns. The difference is that the dodecagon seems to be closer to a "complete circle" than the octagon.

From a distance, the dodecagonal talisman looks more like a round coin.

"I don't know why Mr. Gu designed it in an octagonal shape, but my idea is that since there are twelve talismans and they symbolize the twelve zodiac signs, using a twelve-sided shape is obviously more in line with the setting." Huang Kun was very satisfied. Said seriously.

"no problem!"

After his explanation, Gu Miao also believed that the twelve-sided shape was indeed more in line with the setting of the "Twelve Zodiac Talisman".

Twelve zodiac signs, twelve sides!

This is indeed a small detail that is easily overlooked, and maybe the audience won't care. Anyway, octagons and dodecagons are both talismans, so just use them.

But for Gu Miao, it is not important whether the audience will find this detail. What is important is that now that he has discovered it, he must change it to a more suitable dodecagon.

Speaking of the Twelve Talisman…

Huang Kun probably made a good start, and others also put forward some useful and useless suggestions around the design of the twelve talismans.

For example, the pattern of a spell.

Because in the animation setting, the charm is only a very small piece, probably only a little bigger than a one-yuan coin.

With such a small area, if a relatively detailed zodiac pattern is carved on the front, it will be difficult to see clearly.

Therefore, many people agree with the plan to "simplify" the zodiac signs on the front, so as to make the zodiac signs more intuitive to identify as much as possible, so as to avoid not being able to figure out what the pattern is after looking at it for a long time.

But there are also a few people who think there is nothing wrong with having more detailed patterns. Oversimplification is easy to distinguish, but it also loses the soul. The dragon charm does not have whiskers and claws, so what is the difference from the snake charm?

Gu Miao has her own ideas.

He felt that both sides were reasonable. The front of the charm was too small and the carvings were too fine, so it was difficult to see clearly.

But it is too simplified and causes each zodiac sign to lose its unique characteristics, which is not appropriate.

"Then let's put it all together." Gu Miao thought for a moment and said slowly, "The front patterns of some spells can be a little more detailed. For example, the dragon spell must have dragon whiskers and dragon claws."

"For other charms, the patterns can be simplified appropriately. As long as you can recognize the animal at a glance, it will be OK."

"Okay, I have no objection."

Gu Miao's decision was unanimously recognized by everyone, and it was indeed the best solution.

In addition to the spells, everyone also discussed and researched the background setting and character setting of the story.

On the background setting...

Because Uncle Long, the leading actor, is more active in Hollywood now, the story is set in Chinatown in North America.

This is not only to accommodate Uncle Long, but also to avoid some embarrassment. After all, there are gangsters, gun battles and other scenes in the plot, so it is difficult for this to happen in China.

certainly!

Although the background of the story has been moved overseas, this does not affect the character setting. Xiaoyu is still Xiaoyu, and Dad is still Dad. It is impossible to change him into a blond foreigner because of this.

But then again.

Because Mr. Xiao Xiong and Mr. Tan specifically requested that they also appear in the story, Wa Lung, who was originally supposed to be the villain, was forced to be changed to Wa Xiong, and Sheriff Blake also became the Chinese Sheriff Tan Sir!

Well, that's not important!

Anyway, Black and Walloon, these two names are all "transliterated names" that were translated according to the English pronunciation after the original version of "The Adventures of Jackie Chan" was introduced into the country.

To put it bluntly, their original names were not called this. It was just that when the translation was introduced in China, they were given this name according to their pronunciation.

The scenes of these two characters are pretty good. They are very suitable for Mr. Xiong and Mr. Tan to show their faces, and they are worthy of the money they gave...

"Mr. Gu, what about you?"

Hou Bin was very confused. Logically speaking, since this project was a "fun" project between Mr. Gu, Uncle Long and others, then everyone else had shown their faces. It was impossible for Mr. Gu not to show his face, right?

"Me? I have a role!"

Gu Miao chuckled and said, "Don't worry about me, I have an exclusive role in this animation."

"Ah? Is there any?"

After hearing this, everyone looked at the project plan in their hands. After flipping through several pages, they still didn't see the "exclusive role" that Mr. Gu called.

"Stop looking, I'll tell you if I have it!" Gu Miao pretended to be mysterious, "But I'm different from them. They want to show their faces. I prefer to hide my identity and keep a low profile, you know?"

Hiding your identity and keeping a low profile? !

Thinking about Mr. Gu's words, everyone fell into deep thought. What does this mean? Did Mr. Gu show his face?

"It can't be...uh huh!"

Ma Kui, who had the best brain, was the first to react and was about to tell his guess, but Gu Miao covered his mouth with his backhand.

Gu Miao gave him a look.

In this look, Ma Kui seemed to see himself sadly unemployed, holding a cardboard box and leaving the company as his colleagues bid him farewell.

He is scared!

Under everyone's "tell me" eyes, Ma Kui shook his head and said: "Don't look at me, I don't know!"

It's weird if you don't know!

Although everyone rolled their eyes and expressed disdain for Ma Kui's lie, they did not continue to question him. After all, asking him was in vain.

Mr. Gu was staring at him. At this time, even if Ma Kui was brave enough, he didn't dare to say it...

it does not matter!

Whether or not Gu Miao appears in the animation is not what everyone is concerned about. The point is that this animation, with hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the first season alone, is definitely a big production.

The first season only has 26 episodes!

100 million, maybe more than 100 million, was used to produce 26 episodes of animation, and the average budget for a single episode was as high as 3.85 million yuan.

Mist grass!

After a little calculation, everyone in the conference room fell silent.

With a production budget of nearly 4 million per episode, what kind of magical animation is this? With such a sufficient budget, no wonder Mr. Gu is so excited.

With his style, at least half of this budget must be stolen, right?

Sir Tan is not playing tricks, it is mainly to avoid sensitive job titles with the word "police", you know...