My Animation Era

Some time ago.

Due to the company's financial constraints, Gu Miao rejected Guo Hongwei's project proposal for "The Adventures of Little Carp".

However, when the time came to the end of December and the end of the year, many arrears came in one after another, and Wanbao Group's balance cash flow was not as tense as before.

Although there is not much money left, it is still possible to squeeze out the production budget of an animation.

Therefore, Gu Miao took the time to call the apprentice to the office, told him the good news, and explained some precautions to him.

The first is cost control.

Extravagance and extravagance have always been the bad behaviors that Wanbao Animation resists.

Gu Miao can approve the note to the apprentice, but the premise is that Guo Hongwei must provide a reasonable budget range, once it exceeds his psychological expectations, it will be impossible to approve.

The second is proper timing.

After all, Guo Hongwei is just married, and his wife is still pregnant with a child, and the due date is estimated to be soon. For him, how to arrange work and life time will be a top priority.

"Actually, you can take a vacation."

"There's no need to work so hard. I'll definitely approve your leave. At worst, I'll leave this animation to other people." Gu Miao persuaded.

People's hearts are made of flesh.

Work can be done at any time. Xiao Guo is newly married and his wife is about to give birth. He can take a period of marriage leave to spend time with his family.

Normally, Gu Miao would not get angry with such a reasonable request, and would even give him good treatment, such as paid vacation, reimbursement of medical expenses, inspection fees, etc. at public expense.

He just couldn't figure it out, why didn't Guo Hongwei ask for leave? Is it necessary to work so hard? There is no loss for him to start work after taking a few months off, so why bother?

"Who said there is no loss?"

Guo Hongwei said speechlessly: "There is a salary for vacation, but that is only the basic salary for signing a contract, and there is no additional bonus!"

"Are you short of money?"

After hearing this, Gu Miao was speechless. After all, he is a well-known animation producer of Wanbao Animation, and he is considered a high-income group in the whole country, so why is he still thinking about that little bonus?

"It must be missing!"

"With a child, the room at home is not enough, and we have to buy a bigger house." Guo Hongwei calculated with his fingers, "Jiangchuan's current housing prices are outrageous, and the communities I looked at before are all 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. , my deposit is not enough.”

"After buying a house, you have to decorate it, right? After the baby is born, diapers for confinement women with milk powder are a big expense..."

"All right, all right!"

Gu Miao surrendered and said, "You can decide for yourself. Anyway, I'll put my ugly words up front. You're working overtime voluntarily. Don't say that I'm oppressing you!"

He really didn't expect that Xiao Guo would change so much after getting married.

Did he think about this before?

Stop it!

As Guo Hongwei's master and boss, Gu Miao knows better than anyone how unrestrained this guy's life was before he got married.

As soon as the salary and bonus arrive in the account, I immediately turn into a hand-chopping party, various hand-made models, favorite electronic digital products, game krypton gold draw cards...

Spend money like water!

But it is precisely such a hairy person who immediately becomes a different person after getting married and having a family. Not only does he not spend money recklessly, but he even learns to plan carefully and think more long-term.

This can't help but make people sigh, as expected, the fastest way to change a man and make him mature and stable is to let him be a father.

...

New Year's Day holiday just passed.

As the calendar turns over the old page and enters the brand-new 2016, various associations, organizations and non-governmental organizations are also holding their own year-end summary meetings one after another.

Gu Miao rushed to the capital for a meeting.

Along with them were Ma Kui and Qiu An, who were the project leaders of "The Lion King" and "Crayon Shin-chan" respectively, and attended a series of official commendation activities.

Originally, Du Hao was supposed to go, but he couldn't leave because of some personal matters, so he asked Ma Kui to attend the meeting on his behalf.

On the flight from Jiangchuan to Beijing, Gu Miao and Qiu An chatted about the reorganization of Konjac Studio and the second original animation after "Crayon Shin-chan".

Mr. Qiu has a lot of ideas.

Since Konjac Studio decided to take the path of "funny animation", he went to supplement a lot of knowledge and watched a lot of classic funny and nonsensical animations.

Then he draws conclusions.

In this genre, although the ultimate goal is to make the audience laugh, you can't just be funny for the sake of being funny, you should add something deeper into the plot.

"you're right."

"If it's purely funny, you might forget it after watching it." Gu Miao agreed with him and explained, "The things that are worth remembering are the key to making classics."

"This key may be a line, it may be an extremely vivid character performance, or it may be a scene that is still fresh in my memory..."

"So I thought about it and decided to learn from the work "Tom and Jerry" to add some artistry to the animation."

Qiu An said with a smile: "It's very simple to simply pile up jokes, just extract a few jokes or jokes from the Internet. But I think it's still difficult to make it artistic."

"Then what do you think?"

Gu Miao raised her eyebrows and said, "There are no outsiders now, you can just say what you think, and I'll give you advice."

"It's actually nothing..."

Qiu An touched the bridge of his nose, and said with a bit of embarrassment: "When I was looking through the company's internal files, I saw a project draft called "Shaobaogu"."

Siu Bun Valley?

Oh yes! Gu Miao suddenly remembered that this was Bugs Bunny's plan.

When he was working on "Tom and Jerry", he wrote it by hand, and then threw it into the internal archives to eat ashes.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Qiu found out this plan from the file room.

Although it was unexpected, it made sense after careful consideration. After all, the classification of "Bugs Bunny" is a funny theme, so it was expected that Mr. Qiu would follow him.

"The so-called Shaobaogu, the accurate name should be Bugs Bunny."

Gu Miao coughed, and then slowly explained to Mr. Qiu: "The name Shaobaogu is just a Yunnan dialect name that I came up with in a daze."

"So that's how it is." Qiu An patted his forehead, and suddenly realized, "I just said that this name is so weird, it turns out to be a dialect from Yundian."

This is not important.

Whether it is Shaobaogu or Bugs Bunny, although the names are different, they all refer to the same rabbit, so don't mind.

"Why would you want to do this?"

Gu Miao smiled wryly and said, "Didn't you pay attention to the planning? "Bugs Bunny" is not as simple as you think. It is very difficult to create this character."

Arrogant demeanor, outlier and palpable sense of superiority, these are all the distinctive character labels of Bugs Bunny.

How to create such a character and make it come alive on the screen is a very challenging thing.

Is Mr. Qiu confident to do a good job?

Facing Gu Miao's question, Qiu An seemed very unconfident. Before he actually did it, he didn't know if he could make the "Bugs Bunny" described in the plan.

He just likes, simply likes.

After flipping through the project documents from the archives, and realizing the witty and humorous rabbit, he was completely fascinated, and even dreamed that it was the figure of the rabbit.

exactly!

This is his favorite cartoon character, and it is also an animation work that meets the creation needs of Konjac Studio.

He had a hunch.

It's not just him who is so fascinated. After this animation is produced, the audience will also fall in love with this rabbit.

Because of this, even though he was not sure about making this animation well, nor did he have the confidence to portray the character of "Bugs Bunny" well, Mr. Qiu still wanted to try to challenge it.

Gu Miao supported him very much.

This kind of support is not only financial support, he also made some suggestions to Mr. Qiu based on his understanding of the original animation.

"If you really want to do "Bugs Bunny", then I suggest that you don't think about the storyboard characters first, but first conceive the lines..."

"Lines?"

"Yes! It's the lines!" Gu Miao said confidently.

Why is the character of Bugs Bunny so charming? Do you think it's because of his handsome appearance?

Not!

This rabbit doesn't rely on his appearance to make a living. Although his appearance is very high, he still chooses to rely on his talent and eloquence.

Who is Bugs Bunny?

He talks a lot, is quick-witted, and often does things unexpectedly, always bringing surprises and joy to the audience.

To create such an animated character, the lines are definitely the core of the core. If the writing is not good enough, Bugs Bunny will not be so charming and funny.

"What's the matter, buddy?"

This famous mantra, why is it not so funny for other characters to say it, but as soon as Bugs Bunny said it, the audience all smiled?

On the one hand, when Bugs Bunny utters this sentence, his movements and expressions will be very funny. At the same time, the environment he is in also makes the audience want to laugh.

On the other hand, this sentence fits a wide range of scenes and events, no matter what happens, you can say it, and take advantage of the trend to promote the development of the subsequent plot.

Don't see where it's funny?

The description of language and text is very pale, and this needs to be viewed in combination with practical examples.

For example, in the original Bugs Bunny cartoon, one episode was a baseball game.

During the game, a group of mighty and strong baseball players were bullying an old baseball player in his nineties. The referee said a fair word, and then he was punched into the ground.

At this time, Bugs Bunny, who gnawed carrots and got out of the hole to watch the game, expressed his dissatisfaction, and waved his arms to express that he could defeat all these despicable guys with only one hand.

As soon as the big talk was finished, the group of baseball players who did evil on the field gathered in front of Bugs Bunny's hole, gearing up and staring at him.

"What's the matter, buddy?"

In a specific place and at a specific time, this ordinary line played a wonderful role. It was obviously not deliberately funny, but it was even more funny than deliberately funny.

This is the magic of lines!

The lines are the soul of Bugs Bunny, without his provocative words, the charm of the whole animation will be greatly reduced.

That's why Gu Miao would ask Mr. Qiu that if he really wants to make "Bugs Bunny" animation, then he must work hard on the lines.

"You have to substitute yourself into Bugs Bunny, and imagine what ridiculous words would come out of his mouth in this situation?"

Gu Miao then added: "Besides Bugs Bunny, other people's lines are also very important."

Actors who talk about cross talk have to be a supporter during the performance to improve the effect of the performance!

No matter how humorous and interesting Bugs Bunny's lines are, if the other supporting actors can't catch up, or if they don't catch up well enough, the performance and humor will not be very good.

"I understand."

"I'll think about the lines later, and see how to write them that would be more suitable for Bugs Bunny." Qiu An nodded first, and then asked, "Apart from the lines, is there anything else that needs attention?"

"have!"

"What kind of rabbit do you think Bugs Bunny is?" Gu Miao asked jokingly.

"Eh? Witty, kind, humorous, personable..."

"Stop, stop!"

Gu Miao rolled her eyes and said, "What you said is correct, but you missed a very important point, that is his ability!"

"Ability? What ability?"

"Wonderful idea!"

Gu Miao said without hesitation: "Just like Big Big Wolf who knows everything except catching sheep, and Bald Qiang who knows everything except chopping trees, Bugs Bunny is also a peerless master who is proficient in all eighteen martial arts."

Is the rabbit Bug making trouble with you?

As the protagonist of funny animations, Bugs Bunny is the "supreme rabbit". Among countless animations with rabbits as the main characters, Bugs Bunny is one of the most perverted.

Before time travel, Gu Miao had read a very interesting question on the Internet.

The original words are that as long as Popeye eats spinach, he will become very fierce, infinitely powerful, and become a superman-like existence.

As long as Bugs Bunny eats carrots, he will become very smart and powerful, and he can do all kinds of shocking tricks at his fingertips.

So here comes the problem.

Eating spinach and fried carrots every day, will you gain the strength of Popeye and the wisdom of Bugs Bunny?

Whether this guess is true or false will not be discussed, and the taste of stir-fried carrots with spinach will not be delved into. The point is that as a well-known cartoon character, Bugs Bunny's "abnormal" ability is also one of the reasons why many children love him.

This cannot be ignored.

It would be disappointing if he hadn't reminded that the Wanbao version of Bugs Bunny had turned into a goofy bunny with a lot of fluff.

Sassy words + sassy operations = Bugs Bunny!

Talking about flirtatious talk, and acting flirtatiously, at most, others will say "you are so flirtatious", and it is impossible to become the supreme rabbit like Bugs Bunny.

"Hearing what you said, then this rabbit is quite powerful! It's wandering around in the human world, using its own intelligence to play tricks on everyone." Ma Kui praised.

"No no no! You misunderstood."

When Gu Miao heard this, she quickly explained: "The target of Bugs Bunny's teasing is not everyone, but those bad guys."

"So this work is actually a positive energy animation with a little bit of the nature of punishing evil and promoting good..."

At this point, before Ma Kui and Qiu An said anything, Gu Miao took the lead to live in Bengbu.

positive energy?

It's true to say that, what Bugs Bunny has done is really positive and positive, but this word is associated with Bugs Bunny, which always makes people want to laugh.

Shaobaikuai and Shaobaogu. I have only eaten Shaobaogu. Can someone tell me that Shaobaikuai is delicious?